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Past Reviews: 1998 — 2003
Alexis, André: Childhood
Anderson-Dargatz, Gail: A Recipe for Bees
Atwood, Margaret and Charles Pachter: The Journals of Susanna Moodie
Bidini, David: The Tropic of Hockey
Cameron, Anne: Hardscratch Row
Coyne, Susan: Kingfisher Days
Crummey, Michael: River Thieves
Fiorito, Joe: The Closer We Are To Dying
Fiorito, Joe: The Song Beneath the Ice
Haley, Susan: Maggie’s Family and Choyce, Lesley: Cold Clear Morning
Hay, Elizabeth: A Student of Weather
Hill, Lawrence: Any Known Blood
Hodgins, Jack: Broken Ground
Hollingshead, Greg: The Healer
Irving, John: A Widow for One Year
Itani, Frances: Leaning, Leaning Over Water
Johnston, Wayne: Baltimore’s Mansion
Johnston, Wayne: The Colony of Unrequited Dreams
Lawson, Mary: Crow Lake
MacDonald, Anne-Marie: Fall On Your Knees
MacDonald, Anne-Marie: Further Resources
Macfarlane, David: Summer Gone
MacGregor, Roy: A Life in the Bush: lessons from my father
MacGregor, Roy: Canoe Lake
MacLeod, Alistair: Further Resources
MacLeod, Alistair: No Great Mischief
Martel, Yann: Life of Pi
Martel, Yann: Further Resources
McKillop, A.B.: The Spinster and the Prophet
Morrissey, Donna: Downhill Chance
Munro, Alice: The Love of A Good Woman
Nattel, Lilian: The River Midnight
Quarrington, Paul: The Spirit Cabinet
Redhill, Michael: Martin Sloane
Richards, David Adams: Evening Snow Will Bring Such Peace
Richards, David Adams: Mercy Among the Children
Richards, David Adams: The Bay of Love and Sorrows
Richler, Mordecai: Barney’s Version
Richler, Mordecai: Further Resources
Ritter, Erika: The Hidden Life of Humans
Sheard, Sarah: Almost Japanese
Shields, Carol: Larry’s Party
Taylor, Timothy: Stanley Park
Taylor, Timothy: Stanley Park Further Resources
Telecky, Richard: Pack Up the Moon
Urquhart, Jane: The Underpainter
Vanderhaeghe, Guy: The Last Crossing
Wagner, Anton ed. A Vision of Canada. Herman Voaden’s Dramatic Works 1928 – 1945.
Wiebe, Rudy: Sweeter Than All the World
Poetry
Harper, Lea: Shadow Crossing
Hartog, Diana: Polite to Bees
Struthers, Betsy: Relay: Short Fictions
Venright, Steve: Spiral Agitator
Recent Reviews: 2010 >
Alexis, André: Pastoral
Barwin, Gary: Yiddish for Pirates
Behrens, Peter: The O’Briens
Bezmozgis, David: The Free World
Campbell, Rebecca: The Paradise Engine
Casper, Claudia: The Mercy Journals
Crosbie, Lynn: Life Is About Losing Everything
Crummey, Michael: Galore
Crummey, Michael: Sweetland
You’ve Seen It Before: Predictive Imagery in Michael Crummey’s Sweetland
Dobozy, Tamas: Siege 13
Siege 13: 10 Questions for Tamas Dobozy
Dubé, Peter: The City’s Gates
Edugyan, Esi: Half-Blood Blues
Fostaty, Gerry: As You Were: the tragedy at Valcartier
Galloway, Steven: The Confabulist
Hage, Rawi: Carnival
Hayward, Steven: Don’t Be Afraid
Hayward, Steven: Don’t Be Afraid II
Hayward, Steven: Don’t Be Afraid III Mythological and Literary Allusion
Further Resources
Hayward, Steven: Don’t Be Afraid Part IV
Heti, Sheila: How Should A Person Be?
Itani, Frances: Requiem
Rivers of Life in Frances Itani’s Requiem
Karlinsky, Harry: The Evolution of Inanimate Objects
Kowalski, William: The Best Polish Restaurant in Bufffalo
Kowalski, William: The Hundred Hearts
McKay, Don: The Shell of the Tortoise
Nasrallah, Dimitri: Niko
Richards, David Adams: Crimes Against My Brother
Richards, David Adams: Incidents In the Life of Markus Paul
Struthers, Betsy: Relay: Short Fictions
Struthers, Betsy: Further Resources
Taylor, Timothy: The Blue Light Project
Taylor, Timothy: The Rule of Stephens
Toews, Miriam: All My Puny Sorrows
Toews, Miriam: Irma Voth
Meaning and The Word In Irma Voth
Toews, Miriam: Further Resources
Toews, Miriam: Irma Voth Part II: Light as metaphor
Toews, Miriam: Irma Voth: Existentialism Redux
Unwin, Peter: Life Without Death
Unwin, Peter: Searching for Petronius Totem
Wangersky, Russell: Whirl Away
Wiebe, Rudy: Come Back
Alexis, André: Days By Moonlight
Missives from the Abyss: Further Details Worth Considering in André Alexis’s Days By Moonlight
Commentary
A heartfelt plea to the CBC Canada Reads
A Pilgrimage to Montreal’s Argo Bookshop
Bridging the Gap
e-chill
Hopeful signs…
Low profile CanLit Classics: five (or so) Canadian novels that deserve your attention
Micro-trends in Recent Canadian Fiction
The CanLit Debates…
What makes a national literature national? Or, Yonge and Bloor and damn the consequences!
What should Canadian literature be?
For Teachers
Integrating Can Lit by Subject Area in the Senior Grades: some suggestions
Small Offerings…
A Christmas Story
A Winter’s Tale
Cutting the Grass
Fascism in the Garden: A Necessary Evil
How To Get Along With a Cat
Oh, deer! Where did the garden go?
One Mouse That Roared
Some Responses…
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Recent Reviews: 2010 >
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