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260 Canadian Literature
2025

Editorial

From Then to Now (p. 6-13)
Christine Kim

Articles

“the uncleanness of my dark skin”: Toxic Burdens, Brown Embodiment, and Latinx-Indigenous Relationality in Rebecca Salazar’s sulphurtongue (p. 14-36)
Tania Aguila-Way

Margaret Atwood, #BelieveWomen, and the Limits of Literary Criticism (p. 37-58)
Sara Minogue

“That Particularly Canadian Thing”: Remapping Black Canada through Narratives of Mobility (p. 59-75)
Emily Howe

From Floods to Encounters: Habitat Studies and Reading This River (p. 76-100)
Deborah Schamuhn Kirk

Memories, Manifestation, and Finding a Way Forward: Developing Agency through Spiralling Time in Michelle Good’s Five Little Indians (p. 101-121)
April McInnes

Poems

The Next Day (p. 122)
Jim Johnstone
The Rats of Aquileia (p. 123-125)
Richard Brait
On Hornby Island (p. 126)
Beverly Harris
by the fire (p. 127-128)
Robin Durnford
Price of Admission (p. 129-130)
donalee Moulton
The Cats Remain on Watch (p. 131-132)
Bill Howell
Some Other (p. 133-134)
Sally Quon
Goldfish Bowl for the Unspeakables (p. 135-136)
Cassandra Myers

Book Reviews

Questioning Poetry (p. 137-143)
Scott Inniss

Book(s) Reviewed

  • OЯACULE by Nicole Raziya Fong
  • Flying Red Horse by Dale Martin Smith

A Mystery Milestone: Gail Bowen and Canadian Crime Writing (p. 144-154)
Heidi Tiedemann Darroch and Manina Jones

Book(s) Reviewed

  • An Image in the Lake: A Joanne Kilbourn Mystery by Gail Bowen

Converging Traditions in Rawi Hage’s Fiction (p. 155-163)
Olga Stein

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Beirut to Carnival City: Reading Rawi Hage by Krzysztof Majer

A Knack for Anachronism (p. 164-167)
Carl Watts

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Tantramar Re-Vision by Kevin Irie
  • Vlarf by Jason Camlot
  • Romantic by Mark Callanan

A Luxury of Textures and Traditions (p. 168-169)
Misao Dean

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Maame (Mother) by Elizabeth Allua Vaah
  • A Good Name by Yejide Kilanko
  • Mina among the Shadows by Edem Awumey

Seriously Playful / Playfully Serious (p. 170-172)
Eric Schmaltz

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Lip by Franco Cortese
  • The Nerves Centre by Angela Szczepaniak
  • Word Problems by Ian Williams

Indigenous Futures: Possible and Present (p. 172-174)
Michael Minor

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Indigenous Women and Street Gangs: Survivance Narratives by Robert Henry
  • Me Tomorrow: Indigenous Views on the Future by Drew Hayden Taylor

Complex Simplicity (p. 175-176)
Ralph Sarkonak

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Twists of Fate: If by Chance and Destination Paradise by Michel Tremblay and Linda Gaboriau
  • The Grand Melee by Michel Tremblay and Sheila Fischman

“Lit up like a glowstick” (p. 177-178)
Andrea MacPherson

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Pebble Swing by Isabella Wang
  • None of This Belongs to Me by Ellie Sawatzky

Vicious and Virtuous Circles (p. 179-180)
Dorothy F. Lane

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Second Place by Rachel Cusk
  • On Foot to Canterbury by Ken Haigh

Day of Wrath, Earth in Ashes (p. 180-185)
Warren Heiti

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Field Requiem by Sheri Benning

A Sense of Place (p. 185-186)
Dani Spinosa

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Harbour Grids by Zane Koss
  • Bittersweet by Natasha Ramoutar

Tides of Memory and Change (p. 187-188)
Jane Willsie

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Cane | Fire by Shani Mootoo
  • Lunar Tides by Shannon Webb-Campbell
  • Plenitude by Daniel Sarah Karasik

The Luminous World of Chelene Knight (p. 189-190)
Minelle Mahtani

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Junie by Chelene Knight

Unmasking the Minister’s Wife (p. 190-192)
Irene Gammel

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Maud and Me by Marianne Jones

The Space Between (p. 192-194)
Kelly Shepherd

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Answer to Blue by Russell Thornton
  • Who We Thought We Were As We Fell by Michael Lithgow
  • the fool by Jessie Jones

Dying, Knowing, Fleeing (p. 194-196)
Alice Hinchliffe

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Du coup, j'ai fui la France by Anaïs Gachet
  • Only If We're Caught by Theressa Slind
  • What We Think We Know by Aaron Schneider