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ECW Press

January 29, 2015

Books Reviewed by Canadian Literature

What Is Written on the Tongue by Anne Lazurko
Fishing with Tardelli: A Memoir of Family in Time Lost by Neil Besner
Quiet Night Think by Gillian Sze
An Image in the Lake: A Joanne Kilbourn Mystery by Gail Bowen
No One by George Bowering
The Red Word: A Novel by Sarah Henstra
Everyone Rides the Bus in a City of Losers by Jason Freure
Self-Defence for the Brave and Happy by Paul Vermeersch
The Haunted Hillbilly by Derek McCormack
A Season of Loss, A Lifetime of Forgiveness: The Dan Snyder and Dany Heatley Story by John Manasso
Canadian Writers and Their Works: Poetry Series, Volume 5 by Ellen Quigley, Robert Lecker and Jack David
Canadian Writers and Their Works: Poetry Series, Volume 3 by Robert Lecker, Jack David and Ellen Quigley
Canadian Writers and Their Works: Fiction Series, Volume 7 by Robert Lecker, Jack David and Ellen Quigley
Phyllis Webb and Her Works by John F. Hulcoop
John Glassco's Richer World: 'Memoirs of Montparnasse' by Philip Kokotailo
Susanna Moody: A Life by Michael Peterman
Gabrielle Roy: Creation and Memory by Linda M. Clemente and William A. Clemente
Seeing the Dark: Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye by Arnold E. Davidson
Against the Hard Angle by matt robinson
Stripmalling by Jon Paul Fiorentino
Blue Pyramids: New and Selected Poems by Robert Priest
how we play at it by matt robinson
Intricate Preparations: Writing Leonard Cohen by Stephen Scobie
A Week of This: A Novel in Seven Days by Nathan Whitlock
Brother Dumb by Sky Gilbert
3,000 Miles by Jason Schneider
songs for the dancing chicken by Emily Schultz
Showbiz by Jason Anderson
Hey, Crumbing Balcony!: Poems New and Selected by Stuart Ross
Spells by R.M. Vaughan
Careful by Jacqueline Turner
Ashland by Gil Adamson
Dorothy Livesay: Patterns in a Poetic Life by Peter Stevens
Alphabet of Desire by Ken Norris
The Other Country: Patterns in the Writing of Alice Munro by James Carscallen
Silence Made Visible: Howard O'Hagan and Tay John by Margery Fee
A Sourcery for Books 1 and 2 of bpNichol's The Martyrology by Irene Niechoda
The Native in Literature: Canadian and Comparative Perspectives by Thomas King, Cheryl Calver and Helen Hoy
Marine Snow by Karen MacCormack
Morley Callaghan: Literary Anarchist by Gary A. Boire
The Fin de Siècle Spirit: Walter Blackburn Hare and the American/Canadian Literary Milieu of the 1890s by James Doyle
Thirty-Two Short Views of Mazo de la Roche by Daniel L. Bratton
Be Labour Reading by Clint Burnham
Alice Munro: A Double Life by Catherine Sheldrick Ross
Introducting Margaret Laurence's The Stone Angel by George Woodcock
Introducing Margaret Atwood's The Edible Woman by W. J. Keith
Where She Was Standing: New and Selected Stories by Maggie Helwig
Essays on Canadian Writing: Timothy Findley Issue by Anne Geddes Bailey and Karen Grandy
Canadian Writers and Their Works: Poetry Series, Volume 11 by Robert Lecker, Jack David and Ellen Quigley
As for Me and My Body: A Memoir of Sinclair Ross by Keath Fraser
Entitlement by Jonathan Bennett
Margaret Atwood's Fairy Tale Sexual Politics by Sharon R. Wilson
Susanna Moodie: A Life
High Hopes: Coming of Age at the Mid-Century by Paul Almond and Michael Ballantyne
Sex Carnival by Bill Brownstein
In Search of the Split Subject: Psychoanalysis, Phenomenology, and the Novels of Margaret Atwood by Sonia Mycak
Kaddish for My Father: New and Selected Poems 1970-1999 by Libby Scheier
A Bibliography of Stephen Leacock by Carl Spadoni
Gabrielle Roy: Creation and Memory by Carol J. Harvey, Linda M. Clemente and William A. Clemente
Boardwalk by Joseph Kertes
Scarlet Letters: Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale by Lee Thompson Briscoe
Seeing in the Dark: Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye by Shelley King and Arnold E. Davidson
Irving Layton: God's Recording Angel by Francis Mansbridge
Writing on Trial: Timothy Findley's Famous Last Words by Diana Brydon
Canadian Writers and Their Works: Fiction Series, Volume 12 by Robert Lecker, Jack David and Ellen Quigley
A World Under Sentence: John Richardson and the Interior by Dennis Duffy
A Portrait of the Artist: Ernest Buckler's The Mountain and the Valley by Barbara Pell
Margaret Atwood: A Biography by Nathalie Cooke
Freedom from Culture: Selected Essays 1982-92 by John Metcalf
David Cronenberg: A Delicate Balance by Peter Morris
Walking through the Valley: An Autobiography by George Woodcock
The Fat Lady Dances: Margaret Atwood's Lady Oracle by Margery Fee
Into the Fold by Jacqueline Turner
Burn by Paul Vermeersch
The Ecstasy of Resistance: A Biography of George Ryga by James Hoffman
His Life by George Bowering
After Ten Thousand Years, Desire: Selected Recent Poems by François Charon, Bruce Whitman and Francis Farley-Chevrier
Writing Ethnicity: Cross-Cultural Consciousness in Canadian and Québécois Literature by Winfried Siemerling
Scribes and Scoundrels by George Galt
Big Bear (Mistahimusqua): A Biography by J. R. Miller
100 Years of Critical Solitudes: Canadian and Québécois Criticism from the 1880s to the 1980s by Caroline Bayard
Introducing Alice Munro's Lives of Girls and Women by Neil Besner
Double-Talking: Essays on Verbal and Visual Ironies in Contemporary Canadian Art and Literature by Linda Hutcheon
Transformations by James Doyle
A Sourcery for Books I and 2 of bpNicol's The Martyrology by Irene Niechoda
the soft signature by Lise Downe
Cometology by Stephen Brockwell
Torontology by Stephen Cain
Joyce Wieland: A Life in Art by Iris Nowell
The Invisible World Is In Decline, Book V by Bruce Whiteman
Praying for Rain: Timothy Findley's Not Wanted on the Voyage by Donna Palmateer Pennee
Catching the Wind in a Net: The Religious Vision of Robertson Davies by David Little
The Moment Coming by Margaret Christakos
Living Over the Abyss: Margaret Atwood's Life Before Man by Carol L. Beran
Writing Against the Silence: Joy Kogawa's Obasan by Arnold E. Davidson
Collecting Clues: Margaret Atwood's Bodily Harm by Lorna Marie Irvine
The Letters of John Sutherland, 1942-1956 by Bruce Whiteman
George: George Woodcock's Introduction to Canadian Fiction by George Woodcock
Mina's Story: A Doctor's Memoir of the Holocaust by Mina Deutsch
Smoking Mirror by Brian Henderson
Leonard Cohen: A Life in Art by Ira Bruce Nadel
The Letters of Conrad Aiken and Malcolm Lowry, 1929-1954 by Cynthia Sugars
Moral Metafiction: Counterdiscourse in the Novels of Timothy Findley by Donna Palmateer Pennee
How to Play: The Theatre of James Reaney by Gerald D. Parker
Prague Blues: The Fiction of Joseph Skvorecky by Sam Solecki
A Sense of Style: Studies in the Art of Fiction in English-Speaking Canada by W. J. Keith
Dance of the Sexes: Art and Gender in the Fiction of Alice Munro by Beverley J. Rasporich
The Gilded Beaver. An Introduction to the Life and Work of James de Mille by Patricia Monk
Tay John and the Cyclical Quest: The Shape of Art and Vision in Howard O'Hagan by Ella Tanner
More to Keep Us Warm by Jacob Scheier
P. K. Page and Her Works by John Orange
A Tragic Victory by Maria Halina Horn
An Other I: The Fictions of Clark Blaise by Robert Lecker and Linda Leith
Born to Lose by Trevor Clark
Pilgrim's Progress: A Study of Short Stories of Hugh Hood by Susan Copoloff-Mechanic
Sounding the Iceberg: An Essay on Canadian HIstorical Novels by Dennis Duffy
Sub/version by Lorna Marie Irvine
Perspectives on Mordecai Richler by Michael E. Darling
The Bumper Book by John Metcalf
The Night the Dog Smiled by John Newlove
The Night the Dog Smiled by John Newlove
Robertson Davies by Michael Peterman
Canadian Writers and Their Works by Robert Lecker, Jack David and Ellen Quigley
A Tale of Two Countries: Contemporary Fiction in Canada and the United States by Stanley Fogel
All the Polarities: Comparative Studies in Contemporary Novels in French and English by Philip Stratford
Canadian Writers and Their Works, Fiction Series, Volume Six by Robert Lecker, Jack David and Ellen Quigley
A Literary Friendship: The Correspondence of Ralph Gustafson and W. W. E. Ross by Groening and Bruce Whiteman
John Glassco: An Essay and Bibliography by Fraser Sutherland
John Grierson and the NFB by The John Grierson Project
The Little Magazine in Canada 1925-80 by Ken Norris
North of America: Images of Canada in the Literature of the United States, 1775-1900 by James Doyle
Probable Fictions: Alice Munro's Narrative Acts by Louis K. MacKendrick
Trusting the Tale by Hugh Hood
Canadian Writers and Their Work: Essays on Form, Context, and Development by Ellen Quigley, Robert Lecker and Jack David
RePlacing by Dennis Cooley
On the Line: Readings in the Short Fiction of Clark Blaise, John Metcalf and Hugh Hood by Robert Lecker
The Birth Control King of the Upper Volta by Leon Rooke and Christopher Wiseman
Blood and White Keys by Hugh Hood
Kicking Against the Pricks by John Metcalf
The Prose of Life: Sketches from Victorian Canada by Kathy Mezei and Carole Gerson
The Canadian Alternative by E.D. Blodgett
Taking Stock by Charles R. Steele
Configurations by Yves Beauchemin
The Annotated Bibliography of Canada's Major Authors ABCMA by Robert Lecker and Jack David
The Annotated Bibliography of Canada's Major Authors. Volume Two by Robert Lecker and Jack David
None Genuine Without This Signature by Hugh Hood
Yankees in Canada: A Collection of Nineteenth-Century Travel Narratives by James Doyle
General Ludd by John Metcalf
Lizard in the Grass by John Mills
The Annotated Bibliography of Canada's Major Authors [ABCMA] by Robert Lecker and Jack David
John Glassco's Richer World: 'Memoirs of Montparnasse' by Philip Kokotailo, Thomas E. Tausky and Neil Carson
The Purdy-Woodcock Letters: Selected Correspondence 1964-1984 by George Galt
The Play of Language and Spectacle: a structural reading of selected texts by Gabrielle Roy by Ellen Reisman Babby
The Postmodern University: Essays on the Deconstruction of the Humanities by Stanley Fogel
Between Europe and America: The Canadian Tradition in Fiction by T. D. MacLulich
Watermelon Kindness by David Donnell
aka bpNichol: a preliminary biography by Frank Davey
When TISH Happens: The Unlikely Story of Canada's "Most Influential Literary Magazine" by Frank Davey
Whiteout by George Murray