Editorial


Book Reviews

Gradualism (p. 109-111)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Character of Class Struggle: Essays in Canadian Working-Class History by Bryan D. Palmer
  • Public Violence in Canada, 1867-1982 by Judy M. Torrance
  • Consensus: A Liberal Looks at his Party by Roy Maclauren

A? Voix multiples (p. 111-113)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Il y a des nuits que nous habitons tous by Claude Beausoleil
  • Tâche de naissance by Jean Charlebois
  • Au coeur de l'instant by Celyne Fortin
  • Le tant-à-coeur by Jean Chapdelaine Gagnon

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Chroniques polissonnes d'un téléphage enragé by Victor-Lévy Beaulieu

Macmillan (p. 115-116)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Bibliography of Macmillan of Canada Imprints 1906-1980 by Bruce Whiteman, Charlotte Stewart and Catherine Funnell

Depaysement (p. 117-118)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Anne Hébert: Architexture romanesque by Janet M. Paterson

Poetic Travellers (p. 118-120)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Arriving at Night by Christopher Levenson
  • It's Over It's Beginning by F. W. Watt
  • Sometimes the Distance by Bernice Lever
  • The Centaur's Mountain by Philip Resnick and Ron Walkey

Yukon History (p. 120-122)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Yukon Wildlife: A Social History by Robert G. McCandless

Codes of Knowing (p. 122-125)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Travels in Hyperreality by Umberto Eco and William Weaver
  • Entering Fire by Rikki Ducornet
  • Encounters and Explorations: Canadian Writers and European Critics by Franz K. Stanzel and Waldemar Zacharasiewicz

Kurelek (p. 125-127)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Kurelek: A Biography by Patricia Morley

War & Sealore (p. 127-129)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Heart of Oak: A Pictorial History of the Royal Canadian by J. A. Foster
  • Tales of the North Atlantic by Hal Lawrence
  • Home Port: Victoria by Ursula Jupp
  • Deep Sea Stories from the Thermopylae Club by Ursula Jupp
  • True Canadian War Stories by Jane Dewar
  • Kalavrita: A Greek Tragedy, A Strange Love by Cornel Lumiere

Comic Strips (p. 129-131)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Spring Tides by Jacques Poulin and Sheila Fischman

Inadequate Response (p. 131-132)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Literary and Linguistic History of New Brunswick by R. Gair

Saisons d’amour (p. 132-133)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Madeleine de janvier à septembre by Louise Warren
  • Hors champ by Hélène Dorion
  • Les noms du père by Paul Chanel Malenfant

Deux visions (p. 133-134)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Coquillage by Esther Rochon
  • Nord électrique by Jean-Pierre April

Tensions in Time (p. 134-136)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Vibrations in Time by David Watmough

Without a Heart (p. 136-138)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • After the Fact by Helene Holden

On Her Own (p. 138-139)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Life of Helen Alone by Karen Lawrence

Science & Fiction (p. 140-142)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Starmageddon by Richard Rohmer
  • In Search of the Perfect Lawn by Michael Dean
  • The Soft Machine: Cybernetic Fiction by David Porush

Trois poetes (p. 142-143)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Le Corps de l'infini by Jean-Marc Frechette
  • L'Irrésolue by Daniel Guenette
  • L'Hydre à deux coeurs by Marcelle Roy

Real Issues (p. 143-145)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Fusion Factor by Carol Matas
  • Blaine's Way by Monica Hughes

Comic Rage (p. 145-148)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Adult Entertainment by John Metcalf

Fire & Ice (p. 148-149)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Paris Notebooks: Essays & Reviews by Mavis Gallant

Out of Love (p. 149-151)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Robertson Davies by Michael Peterman

Maze & Field (p. 151-152)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Nadine by Matt Cohen

Mythic & Surreal (p. 153-154)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Adam and Eve in Middle Age by Rona Murray
  • Whitefaces by Fraser Sutherland
  • Second Nature by Libby Scheier

Art et regard (p. 155-157)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Un Roman du regard: La Montagne secre?te de Gabrielle Roy by Jean Morency

Dramatic Memory (p. 157-159)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Land Called Morning: Three Plays by Caroline Heath
  • The Oldest-Living by Pat Smith
  • Doc by Sharon Pollock

Deep in Himself (p. 159-161)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Collected Poems of Al Purdy by Russell Brown

Fear & Form (p. 161-163)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Shaking the Dreamland Tree by Nadine McInnis
  • For the Back of a Likeness by Robert Finch

Secret Tensions (p. 163-165)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Standing Flight by David Lobdell and Gilles Archambault
  • Housebroken by Leona M. Gom
  • Not Enough Women by Ken Ledbetter

Future Volumes (p. 165-166)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Motor Boys in Ottawa by Hugh Hood

Different Dragons (p. 167-168)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Different Dragons by Jean Little
  • Plan B Is Total Panic by Martyn Godfrey
  • The Curses of the Third Uncle by Paul Yee

Cajun/Acadien (p. 168-170)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Histoire de la Littérature Acadienne: De re?ve en re?ve by Marguerite Maillet
  • The Cajuns by William Faulkner Rushton

Family Stories (p. 170-172)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Black Swan by Gertrude Story
  • The Indigo Dress by Rona Murray

Expected Death (p. 172-173)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Children of Abel by Seymour Mayne
  • The Marble Head and Other Poems by Ludwig Zeller
  • White of the Lesser Angels by Janice Kulyk Keefer

Diaries (p. 173-175)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Bourgeois Experience. Victoria to Freud. Vol I. The Education of the Senses by Peter Gay
  • Hopes and Dreams: The Diary of Henriette Dessaulles, 1874-1881 by Liedewy Hawke

Scherzo Capriccioso (p. 175-177)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Dvorak in Love by Josef Skvorecky

Rohmer’s Gaffe (p. 177-179)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Rommel & Patton by Richard Rohmer

Livesay Archive (p. 179-181)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Papers of Dorothy Livesay by

Fleshless (p. 181-183)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • One Out of Four by Donald Martin

Short Subjects (p. 183-185)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Small Regrets by Dave Margoshes
  • Leaping Up Sliding Away by Kent Thompson

Fluent Shadows (p. 185-187)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Selected Poems II: Poems Selected and New 1976-1986 by Margaret Atwood
  • Flesh and Paper by Suniti Namjoshi and Gillian Hanscombe
  • Dogstones: Selected and New Poems by Anne Szumigalski

Spears & Arrows (p. 187-189)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Narrow Vision: Duncan Campbell Scott and the Administration of Indian Affairs by E. Brian Titley

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Fragments et Collages by Diane Lamoureux
  • La Bonne Aventure by Lise Payette

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Canada and the Arab World by Tareq Y. Ismael
  • The Honey Drum by Gwendolyn MacEwen

Speech Acts (p. 194-198)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Face of Jack Munro by Tom Wayman
  • Silk Trail by Andrew Suknaski
  • Songs of the Maori King by Stephen Chan

Mandel’s Essays (p. 198-200)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Family Romance by Eli Mandel

Stratford (p. 200-203)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Stratford: The First Thirty Years by John Pettigrew and Jamie Portman
  • First Stage: The Making of the Stratford Festival by Tom Patterson and Alan Gould

Archives (p. 203-205)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Alice Munro Papers: First Accession by J. Moore, J. Tener and A. Steele
  • The Robert Kroetsch Papers: First Accession by J. Tener et al.
  • The Joanna M. Glass Papers by J. Moore, J. Tener and A. Steele
  • Literary Manuscripts at the National Library of Canada by Linda Hoad

Livesay (p. 205-209)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Selected Poems: The Self-Completing Tree by Dorothy Livesay
  • A Private and Public Voice: Essays on the Life and Work of Dorothy Livesay by Lindsay Dorney, Gerald Noonan and Paul G. Tiessen

Island & Road (p. 209-211)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Squatter's Island by W. D. Barcus
  • The Late Great Human Road Show by Paulette Jiles

Short Stories (p. 211-213)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Conventional Emotions by Lesley Choyce
  • The Bridge Out of Town by Jake MacDonald
  • The Paris-Napoli Express by Janice Kulyk Keefer

Inhibitions (p. 213-216)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Boughwolfen and Other Stories by Al Pittman
  • Picking the Morning Colour by Kevin Roberts

Counter Traditions (p. 216-218)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Traditionalism, Nationalism, and Feminism: Women Writers of Quebec by Paula Gilbert Lewis

Daughters & Demons (p. 218-219)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Some of Eve's Daughters by Connie Gault
  • Inspecting the Vaults by Eric McCormack

Grazie (p. 220-221)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Slow Mist by Vincenzo Albanese
  • Loyalty to the Hunt by Dorina Michelutti
  • Virgin Science by Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Voix inegales (p. 221-225)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Surprendre les voix by Andre Belleau
  • Alice vous fait dire bonsoir by Claude Jasmin

Surprised by Joy (p. 225-227)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Necessary Secrets: The Journals of Elizabeth Smart by Alice Van Wart

Going Back (p. 227-231)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Tradition by A. F. Moritz
  • Eleusis by Harold Rhenisch
  • Out of the Willow Trees by Peter Stevens

Poetry & Whispers (p. 231-234)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • With Other Words by Maria Jacobs
  • Origins by J. R. (Tim) Struthers
  • Gods and Other Mortals by Helen Humphreys
  • The Concrete Giraffe by Lola Sneyd

Pouvoir des mots (p. 235-236)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Le pouvoir des mots, les maux du pouvoir: Des romanciers haitiens de l'exil by Jean Jonassaint

Grown-Up Children (p. 236-238)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Baby Project by Sarah Ellis
  • Danger on the Tracks by Bill Freeman
  • Sun God, Moon Witch by Welwyn Wilton Katz

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Garden of Eloise Loon by Edna Alford
  • Dislocations by Janette Turner Hospital

Pour la jeunesse (p. 240-242)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Le Dernier des raisins by Raymond Plante
  • Bach et Bottine by Bernadette Renaud
  • L'Espagnole et la Pékinoise by Gabrielle Roy

No Title (p. 242-242)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A New Endeavour: Selected Political Essays by Michiel Horn and Frank Scott