Book Reviews

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Conversations with a Dead Man: The Legacy of Duncan Campbell Scott by Mark Abley
  • Archibald Lampman: Memory, Nature, Progress by Eric Ball

Memorials (p. 114-16)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Air-Proof Green by Maleea Acker
  • Children of Air India: Un/authorized Exhibits and Interjections by Renée Sarojini Saklikar
  • Come Cold River by Karen Connelly

Resituating CanLit (p. 117-18)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Devil in Deerskins: My Life with Grey Owl by Sophie McCall
  • The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative North American Literature by Reingard M. Nischik

Body and Soul (p. 120-21)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Leave of Absence by Lucia Frangione
  • It is Solved by Walking by Catherine Banks
  • Drama: Pilot Episode by Karen Hines

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Summer Sport by Priscila Uppal
  • continuations 2 by Douglas Barbour and Sheila E. Murphy
  • And the cat says... by Susan L. Helwig

Translating Desire (p. 123-24)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • For the Boy with the Eyes of the Virgin: Selected Poems by John Barton
  • Davie Street Translations by Daniel Zomparelli
  • After Desire by George Stanley

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Green Man by Michael Bedard
  • Picture me Gone by Meg Rosoff

Avant, Again (p. 125-27)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Avant-Garde Canadian Literature: The Early Manifestations by Gregory Betts
  • Stubborn Poetries: Poetic Facticity and the Avant-Garde by Peter Quartermain

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Méchante langue: La légitimité linguistique du français parlé au Québec by Chantal Bouchard

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Words, Words, Words: Essays and Memoirs by George Bowering
  • Tracing the Lines: Reflections on Contemporary Poetics and Cultural Politics in Honour of Roy Miki by Maia Joseph, Larissa Lai, Christopher Lee and Christine Kim

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Juliet Stories by Carrie Snyder
  • Beggar's Feast by Randy Boyagoda

Book(s) Reviewed

  • White Piano by Nicole Brossard, Erín Mouré and Robert Majzels
  • Undark: An Oratorio by Sandy Pool
  • Light by Souvankham Thammavongsa

Buffy, Unmuffled (p. 133-34)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Heart Accepts it All: Selected Letters of John Glassco by Brian Busby

Beautiful Thieves (p. 134-35)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Placeholder by Charmaine Cadeau
  • Leaving Howe Island by Sadiqa de Meijer
  • When This World Comes to an End by Kate Cayley

Immense Precision (p. 135-36)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Grey Tote by Deena Kara Shaffer
  • Tether by Laurelyn Whitt
  • Birds Flock Fish School by Edward Carson

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Order in which We Do Things: The Poetry of Tom Wayman by Owen Percy and Tom Wayman
  • Old Hat by Rob Winger
  • Glad and Sorry Seasons by Catherine Chandler

Book(s) Reviewed

  • What is Québécois Literature?: Reflections on the Literary History of Francophone Writing in Canada by Rosemary Chapman
  • In Translation: Honouring Sheila Fischman by Sherry Simon

Versatile Service (p. 139-41)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The (Post) Mistress by Tomson Highway
  • Kim's Convenience by Ins Choi

Other Voices (p. 141-42)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Dante's House by Richard Greene
  • At the Limit of Breath by Stephen Scobie
  • Alongside by Anne Compton

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Wings of Glass by Amberlee Kolson
  • Voices in the Waterfall by Beth Cuthand
  • Five Wives Club: Coast Salish Style by Lee Maracle

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Family China by Ann Shin
  • Blind Items by Dina Del Bucchia

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Transcultural Imaginaries: History and Globalization in Contemporary Canadian Literature by Nora Tunkel
  • Investigating Canadian Identities: 10th Anniversary Contributions by Anna Pia De Luca