Canada

Introduction

For the Canadian literary world the year 2013 was notable for the passing of several prominent figures in the areas of letters and culture. Kildare Dobbs, who died on 1 April, was not only an acclaimed writer of fiction, poetry and non-fiction, but also a dedicated editor who co-founded the distinguished literary quarterly Tamarack Review. He was also an influential book critic who spotlighted Canadian authors and writing at a time when these were generally ignored. Among the many awards bestowed on him was the Governor General’s Literary Award in 1962 for his autobiography Running to Paradise; he also received the Order of Canada and the Order of Ontario. Greg Kramer, who died on 8 April, was a talented playwright, fiction writer, actor and director. His first novel, The Pursemonger of Fugu (1995) was shortlisted for the City of Toronto Book Award of 1996. Gaétan Soucy, the Quebec writer and existential philosopher who died on 9 July, was celebrated nationally and internationally for his fiction, which focuses predominantly on the theme of alienation. His novels were recognized with many honours such as nominations for both the Governor General’s Literary Award and the Giller Prize in 2006 for his translated debut work The Immaculate Conception (L’Immaculée conception, 1994) and then later in 1998 with the award of le Grand Prix du livre de Montréal for L’Acquittement (Atonement). However it was his third novel, La petite fille qui aimait trop les allumettes (The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches), published in 1998 which received the greatest critical acclaim through translation into eighteen languages and with the awards of le Prix Ringuet and le Prix Grand Public de La Presse, as well as le Grand Prix du roman de l’Académie des Lettres québécoises. Soucy’s last novel, the 2002 Music-Hall (published in English translation as Vaudeville) was honoured nationally with a Governor General’s nomination and was also acclaimed worldwide through several awards, including le prix France-Québec in 2003.

The year was significant for both international and national recognition of Canada’s writers of fiction. The Nobel Prize in Literature 2013 was awarded to Alice Munro, whom the Nobel committee described as “master of the contemporary short story”. Her work has been seen as having revolutionized the architecture of short stories. She had previously won other prestigious accolades for her collections, including the Man Booker International Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, and three Governor General’s Awards for English-language fiction.

Eleanor Catton’s The Luminaries was the winner of the 2013 Governor General’s Award for fiction, and was also shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. This gripping murder mystery, which takes place in a remote gold-mining frontier town in nineteenth-century New Zealand, describes how three unsolved crimes link the fates and fortunes of twelve men. The award committee praised the work as a feat of literary design and the author’s skilful use of precise sensual prose to reveal the complexities of her characters. The finalist The Lion Seeker, by Kenneth Bonert, is a debut novel that explores the dilemmas of a young Jewish immigrant in Johannesburg, South Africa, during the Great Depression, just before the Second World War. This powerful historical novel was lauded for its profoundly illuminating narrative and its vivid lyrical prose. The Orenda, another shortlisted work, was written by Joseph Boyden, one of Canada’s most talented and well-known Aboriginal authors. The novel is a vast epic that describes the clash of several cultures: first through the war between two First Nations, which begins when Bird, a great Huron warrior and elder, kidnaps Snow Falls, an Iroquois girl who is gifted with magical powers, and then through the traumatic first contact between Old World and New when Jesuit Missionaries try to introduce Christianity to the Huron. Boyden’s work was singled out as a sublime and visionary achievement of myth making. Another finalist, A Beautiful Truth by Colin McAdam, is a work about two chimpanzees and their human caretakers. The story is told from two perspectives – those of people and of animals. Critics especially acclaimed the author’s daring inventiveness with style and narrative. Shyam Selvadurai’s shortlisted novel, The Hungry Ghosts, describes the travails of Shivan Rassiah, a young gay man of mixed Tamil and Sinhalese lineage, who struggles with the wily, ailing grandmother he has brought to Canada from a civil-war torn Sri Lanka. This tale about the contemporary hero’s clashes with the powerful old-world matriarch about racial, political and sexual differences was heralded as a compassionate, well-written fictional exploration of diversity.

The Giller Prize Jury was quite lavish in its praise of the works of fiction that were nominated for the award this year. The winner, Lynn Coady’s Hellgoing, is a collection of nine stories about the foibles and obsessions of men and women. The work was singled out for its vivid language and extraordinary range of narrative strategies and human situations. Dennis Bock’s shortlisted Going Home Again tracks the midlife crises of two brothers who are drawn together after their failed marriages. The novelist’s poetic precision and eloquent storytelling in describing the tensions between men and women were especially praised. Another finalist, Craig Davidson’s Cataract City, also focuses on the relationship between two men, close friends since childhood, who become reluctant adversaries when the less privileged of the pair becomes enmeshed in their town’s underworld. The work was lauded for its intelligent and complex exploration of the main characters, as well as for its strikingly cinematic evocation of action. Lisa Moore’s Caught was not only short-listed for Giller but also received many other awards and accolades. Her work, a thriller about the adventures a man who escapes from prison to embark upon a brazen pot-smuggling operation, was acclaimed for its unforgettable characters and mesmerizing reality. The finalist The Crooked Maid, by Dan Vyleta, is set in post-war Vienna and tells the story of two strangers who meet on a train returning to the city and become united in attempting to solve the mysteries behind their disrupted households. Later they reunite to become spectators at a criminal trial set to deliver judgment on Austria’s Nazi crimes. Reviewers lavishly praised the novel as a masterful evocation of the bitterness and despair that remains in the aftermath of war.

Many of the works of poetry that competed for awards this year were greatly inventive in theme and form. The Governor General’s Award was won by Katherena Vermette for North End Love Songs, a collection that focuses on the lives of Aboriginals living in Winnipeg’s North End neighbourhood. Her poems take the form of love songs, praised by critics as illuminating and moving tributes to the will to survive in a harsh urban environment. Austin Clarke’s short-listed Where the Sun Shines Best is a long-form narrative poem in which the speaker meditates on a real-life tragedy that occurred in Toronto when three drunken Canadian soldiers awaiting deployment to Afghanistan beat a homeless man to death on the steps of their armoury. The work was lauded as a lyrical and sensitive indictment of the ravages of poverty, racism and war. The finalist The Polymers, by Adam Dickinson, is an experimental work in which the poems are structured as an imaginary science project that explores the junction of poetry and chemistry, particularly in terms of a repeating structure that is fundamental to plastic molecules and its manifestation in our “plastic” cultural and linguistic behaviours. The collection was singled for its daring experimentation with language, themes and form. In Don Domanski’s short-listed Bite down Little Whisper, the poet focuses on the spirit and silence of the natural world. He speaks from the vantage point of an observer caught between human damage to nature and the nonhuman resistance to that damage. Especially praised were the incantatory rhythms, lucid metaphors and imaginative use of artistic and literary references in Domanski’s poetry. Another runner-up, Russell Thornton’s Birds, Metals, Stones & Rain, uses imagery of both the natural and the urban industrial world of his home city of Vancouver in an intensely personal exploration of primary human relationships. The musical language and incantatory qualities of his poems were highly commended.

Anne Carson’s Red Doc> won the Griffin Trust Prize for Poetry. Her work, a shape-shifting mixture of poetry, drama and narrative, brings her characters from a previous poetry bestseller, Autobiography of Red, into the complexities of the modern era. The award jury singled out the work’s stunning originality and daunting, imaginative manipulation of language. The linked poems in the short-listed Ocean, by Sue Goyette, present an alternate, apocryphal exploration of humanity’s relationship with the ocean, especially through the voices of shore-dwellers. Especially commended were the poet’s vivid language and broad vision in her re-creation of the sea’s influence on human consciousness. The finalist Correspondences, an inspired collaboration between novelist and poet Anne Michaels, and artist and writer Bernice Eisenstein, is a book-length poem about twentieth-century writers and thinkers for whom language was the closest thing to salvation. Illuminating quotations and Eisenstein’s vivid portraits complement Michaels’ poem. The inventive format and design of the work, as well as the stunning artistry of both the poetry and the illustrations, were highly praised by reviewers.

Several outstanding plays received national recognition this year. The Governor General’s Award in drama was given to Nicholas Billon for Fault Lines, his collection of three plays which focus on aspects of climate change. In Greenland the discovery and naming of a new island that is revealed under receding ice escalates a growing breach between the discoverer and his family. Iceland dramatizes how sex and greed stoke a conflict between a corrupt real estate agent and a naive tenant, while in Faroe Islands a young woman’s idealism is tested by the grim reality of the annual whale hunt. The award jury lauded Billion’s masterful use of haunting imagery and imaginatively intertwined monologues to probe human consciousness about timely issues. The shortlisted Blood: A Scientific Romance, by Meg Braem, explores the traumatic lives of twin sisters who are orphaned after a car accident and who then become the focus of endless experiments by an unscrupulous doctor. The playwright was commended for her sensitive, multifaceted dramatization of universal questions about human bonding and interconnectedness. Another finalist, The Swearing Jar by Kate Hewlett, is a play whose mixture of comic and heartbreaking moods mirrors the precarious state of the marriage between the drama’s two protagonists who strive to restore a balance to their lives. The work received high praise for its delicate construction and its wrenchingly honest script. Lawrence Jeffery’s Frenchtown: A Drama about Shanghai, another award nominee, is set in Shanghai’s old French Concession during the time between Tiananmen Square and the return of Hong Kong to mainland China. The play focuses on the anxieties and hopes of four Frenchtown residents, including three North American expatriates who are uncertain of the country’s direction and a Chinese national who clings to a firm belief in his country’s glorious future. Critics singled out the work’s elegant, cerebral exploration of world-historical themes and the emotional struggles of family life. The runner-up Shakespeare’s Nigga, by Joseph Jomo Pierre, presents a daring vision of Shakespeare as a Southern plantation owner who maintains many slaves, several of whom are involved in complex relationships with their master’s daughter, Julia. Critics commended the riveting intensity of the drama’s script and the playwright’s skilful integration of Shakespearian stylistic features and themes.

In the area of non-fiction, The Governor General’s award went to an excellent biography about a brilliant Canadian poet, Journey with No Maps: A Life of P.K. Page (2012) by Sandra Djwa. This well-researched work about the writer’s life, artistic development and influence was drawn from a rich source of interviews, diaries, letters and writings as well as from the testimony of Page’s contemporaries. Critics heralded the vividly written work of dedicated scholarship as a fitting tribute to the poet. Two autobiographies by Canadian writers that were shortlisted for the award explore aspects of their early lives that influenced the themes and direction of their writing. Poet Priscilla Uppal’s Projection: Encounters with My Runaway Mother is a grimly honest account of her stressful childhood when she lost her mother and the sad reunion they had twenty years later. The memoir was lauded for its beautiful writing and compelling, fascinating honesty – qualities inherent in Uppal’s own poetry. Travel writer Allen Smutylo’s The Memory of Water is a collection of ten autobiographical stories that describe his relationship with water, from his earliest youthful fears to his later fascination with water sources. His obsession with the element has spurred his travel across the globe in search of the wildest and most compelling waters on earth. The work was acclaimed as a sublime evocation of place and a poetic journey to self-discovery.

Another major publication pertaining to autobiography that received great praise was The Complete Journals of L.M. Montgomery: The PEI Years, 1901-1911. The second volume in the series covers a very important period of Montgomery’s growth as a writer, including her work as an editor in Halifax, the swift success of her publishing career, her developing ideas on writing, and her changing relationship with the world around her.

Major research studies of prominent Canadian authors that appeared this year include Margaret Atwood and the Labour of Literary Celebrity by Lorraine M. York, God’s Plenty: A Study of Hugh Hood’s Short Fiction by W. J. Keith, Archibald Lampman: Memory, Nature, Progress by Eric Ball, Racial, Ethnic, Gender and Class Representations in Margaret Laurence’s Writings by Andreea Topor-Constantin, and Ornithologies of Desire: Ecocritical Essays, Avian Poetics, and Don McKay by Travis V. Mason.

Several scholarly works were published which covered aspects of Canadian literature that had hitherto been neglected areas of research. These publications include Avant-Garde Canadian Literature: The Early Manifestations by Gregory Betts, Double-Takes: Intersections between Canadian Literature and Film edited by David R. Jarraway, Keepers of the Code: English-Canadian Literary Anthologies and the Representation of the Nation by Robert Lecker, Performing Autobiography: Contemporary Canadian Drama by Jenn Stephenson, and Writing Unemployment: Worklessness, Mobility, and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century Canadian Literatures by Jody Mason.

A number of general critical works that examined specific issues about ethnicity, gender, race and regionalism include Garden Plots: Canadian Women Writers and Their Literary Gardens by Boyd Shelley, Indigenous North American Drama: A Multivocal History edited and introduced by Birgit Däwes, Latina/o Canadian Theatre and Performance edited by Natalie Alvarez, The Newfoundland Diaspora: Mapping the Literature of Out-Migration by Jennifer Bowering, and Rewriting the Break Event: Mennonites and Migration in Canadian Literature by Robert Zacharias.

Over the years, foreign scholars have published an increasing number of research articles and works about Canadian authors and themes in Canadian literature. It is to be hoped that Alice Munro’s 2013 Nobel Award in Literature will further enhance such a growing global interest in Canadian writers.

Bibliography

Bibliographies

Bibliographies Published Serially

Canadian Book Review Annual online format Dundurn (Toronto) contact publisher for price: www.cbraonline.com.

Research Aids

AMICUS Web Library and Archives Canada (Ottawa)

www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/amicus.

Poetry

Abel, Jordan The Place of Scraps 288pp Talonbooks (Vancouver) Pb $18.95.

Acker, Maleea Air-Proof Green 90pp Pedlar (Toronto) Pb $20.

Anderson, Mia The Sunrise Liturgy 100pp Wipf & Stock (Eugene, OR) Pb $14 [2012].

Arnott, Joanne A Night for the Lady 121pp Ronsdale (Vancouver, BC) Pb $15.95.

Azarov, Vladimir Mongolian Etudes 176pp Exile (Holstein, ON) Pb $16.95.

Bachinsky, Elizabeth The Hottest Summer in Recorded History 80pp Nightwood (Gibsons, BC) Pb $18.95.

Barrett, Adrienne The House Is Still Standing 96pp Goose Lane (Fredericton, NB) Pb$19.95.

Beach, Kimmy The Last Temptation of Bond 120pp Univ of Alberta Press (Edmonton) Pb $19.95.

Beissel, Henry Fugitive Horizons 100pp Guernica (Toronto) Pb $20.

Belford, Ken Internodes 96pp Talonbooks (Vancouver) Pb $16.95.

Bitney, Katherine The Boreal Dragon: Encounters with a Northern Land 168pp Wolsak and Wynn (Hamilton, ON) Pb $19.

Bloom, Ronna Cloudy with a Fire in the Basement 85pp Pedlar (Toronto) Pb $20 [2012].

Bolen, Dennis E. Black Liquor 128pp Caitlin (Halfmoon Bay, BC) Pb $16.95.

Bowling, Tim Selected Poems 160pp Nightwood (Gibsons, BC) Hb $22.95.

Brenna, Dwayne Stealing Home: Baseball Poems 88pp Hagios (Regina) Pb $17.95.

Briesmaster, Allan Against the Flight of Spring 80pp Quattro (Toronto) Pb $14.95.

Del Bucchia, Dina Coping with Emotions and Otters 128pp Talonbooks (Vancouver) Pb $16.95.

Bulmer, April Women of the Cloth 64pp Black Moss (Windsor, ON) Pb $10.

Butler, Jenna Seldom Seen Road 75pp NeWest (Edmonton) Pb $14.95.

Cadeau, Charmaine Placeholder 67pp Brick (Toronto) Pb $20.

Carson, Anne Red Doc> 192pp McClelland & Stewart (Toronto) Hb $24.99.

Carson, Edward Birds Flock Fish School: In Search of Neighbourhood 72pp Signal (Montréal) Pb $16.

Christakos, Margaret Multitudes 128pp Coach House (Toronto) Pb $17.95.

Christy, Jim This Cockeyed World 90pp Guernica (Toronto) Pb $15.

Clarke, Austin Where the Sun Shines Best 71pp Guernica (Toronto) Pb $15.

Collis, Stephen and Jordan Scott Decomp 144pp Coach House (Toronto) Pb $24.95.

—– To the Barricades 160pp Talonbooks (Vancouver, BC) Pb $16.95.

Compton, Anne Alongside 84pp Fitzhenry & Whiteside (Markham, ON) $14.95.

Connelly, Karen Come Cold River 80pp Quattro (Toronto) Pb $18.

Cooley, Dennis The Stones 132pp Turnstone (Winnipeg) Pb $17.

Cran, Brad Ink on Paper 96pp Nightwood (Gibsons, BC) Pb $18.95.

Crummey, Michael Under the Keel 101pp Anansi (Toronto) Pb $19.95.

Culley, Peter Parkway: Hammertown, Book 3 90pp New Star (Vancouver) Pb $18.

Dachsel, Marita Glossolalia 94pp Anvil (Vancouver) Pb $18.

Dalton, Mary Hooking 88pp Signal (Montréal) Pb $18.

Davies, Lynn How the Gods Pour Tea 88pp Goose Lane (Fredericton, NB) Pb $19.95.

Dawson, Kanina Masham Means Evening 88p Coteau (Regina) Pb $16.95.

Day, Brian The Daring of Paradise 75pp Guernica (Toronto) Pb $15.

De Meijer, Sadiqa Leaving Howe Island 72pp Oolichan (Fernie, BC) Pb $17.95.

Dempster, Barry Invisible Dogs 91pp Brick (London, ON) Pb $20.

Derksen, Jeff The Vestiges 128pp Talonbooks (Vancouver) Pb $16.95.

Dickinson, Adam The Polymers 128pp Anansi (Toronto) Pb $19.95.

Di Saverio, Marc Sanatorium Songs 96pp Palimpsest (Windsor) Pb $18.95.

Domanski, Don Bite down Little Whisper 97pp Brick (London, ON) Pb $20.

Donaldson, Jeffer Slack Action 96pp Porcupine’s Quill (Erin, ON) Hb $16.95.

Dowker, David and Christine Stewart Virtualis: Topologies of the Unreal 96pp BookThug (Toronto) Pb $18.

Dubé, Peter Conjure: A Book of Spells 104pp Rebel Satori (Hulls Cove, ME) Pb $15.17.

Elza, Daniela Milk Tooth Bane Bone 107pp Leaf (Lantzville, BC) Pb $16.95.

Fiorentino, Jon Paul Needs Improvement 86pp Coach House (Toronto) Pb $17.95.

Fretwell, Kathy Class Acts 129pp Inanna (Toronto) Pb $18.95 [includes bibliographical references].

Goodison, Lorna Supplying Salt and Light 128pp McClelland & Stewart (Toronto) Pb $18.99.

Goyette, Sue Ocean 66pp Gaspereau (Kentville, NS) Pb $19.95.

Graham, Catherine Her Red Hair Rises with the Wings of Insects Wolsak and Wynn (Hamilton, ON) Pb $17.

Graham, Laurie D. Rove Hagios (Regina) Pb $17.95.

Greene, Richard Dante’s House 68pp Signal (Montréal) Pb $18.

Greenwood, Catherine The Lost Letters 88pp Brick (Toronto) Pb $20.

Hall, Phil The Small Nouns Crying Faith 112pp BookThug (Toronto) Pb $20.

Harper, Jennica Wood 96pp Anvil (Vancouver) Pb $18.

Heroux, Jason Natural Capital 64pp Mansfield (Toronto) Pb $17 [2012].

Hine, Daryl A Reliquary and Other Poems Fitzhenry & Whiteside (Markham, ON) Pb $14.95.

Horlick, Leah Riot Lung 62pp Thistledown (Saskatoon) Pb $9.95.

Howe, Ken The Civic-Mindedness of Trees 102pp Wolsak and Wynn (Hamilton, ON) Pb $17.

Jernigan, Amanda All the Daylight Hours 96pp Cormorant (Markham, ON) Pb $18.

Johnston, Gordon But for Now 102pp McGill-Queen’s Univ Press (Montréal) Pb $16.95.

Joosten, Julie Light Light 96pp BookThug (Toronto) Pb $18.

Karasik, Daniel Hungry 96p Cormorant (Markham, ON) Pb $18.

Kasper, Vancy Rebel Women 100pp Inanna (Toronto) Pb $18.95.

Koulouris, Niki The Sea with No One in It 64pp Porcupine’s Quill (Erin, ON) Hb $14.95.

Kruk, Laurie My Mother Did Not Tell Stories 108pp Demeter (Bradford, ON) Pb $14.99 [2012].

Lai, Larissa and Rita Wong Sybil Unrest 124pp New Star (Vancouver) Pb $18.

Lebowitz, Rachel Cottonopolis Pedlar (St. John’s, NL) Pb $20.

Legris, Sylvia Pneumatic Antiphonal 47pp New Directions (New York) Pb $11.99.

Maguire, Shannon Fur(l) Parachute 112pp BookThug (Toronto) Pb $20.

Marlatt, Daphne Liquidities: Vancouver Poems Then and Now 96pp Talonbooks (Vancouver, BC) Pb $16.95.

Marques, Irene The Circular Incantation: An Exercise in Loss and Findings 120pp Guernica (Toronto) Pb $20.

Maylor, Micheline Whirr & Click 80pp Frontenac (Calgary) Pb $15.95.

McAuley, John All I Can Say for Sure 100pp DC Books (Montréal) Pb $17.95.

McGrath, Carmelita Escape Velocity 96pp Goose Lane (Fredericton, NB) Pb $19.95.

Meyer, Bruce The Obsession Book of Timbuktu 112pp Black Moss (Windsor) Pb $16.

Michaels, Anne Correspondences portraits Bernice Eisenstein 128pp McClelland & Stewart (Toronto) Pb $35.

Millar, Jay Timely Irreverence 96pp Nightwood (Gibsons, BC) Pb $18.95.

Minkus, Kim Tuft 90pp BookThug (Toronto) Pb $18.

Morton, Colin Winds and Strings 68pp BuschekBooks (Ottawa) Pb $17.95.

Nielsen, Emilia Surge Narrows 80pp Leaf (Lantzville, BC) Pb $16.95.

Norman, Chad Masstown 64pp Black Moss (Windsor) Pb $10.

Norman, Peter Water Damage 100pp Mansfield (Toronto) Pb $17.

Oliver, Alexandra Meeting the Tormentors in Safeway 64pp Biblioasis (Windsor, ON) Pb $17.95.

O’Meara, David A Pretty Sight 96pp Coach House (Toronto) $17.95.

Peters, Sara 1996 80pp Anansi (Toronto) Pb $19.95.

Pilling, Marilyn Gear A Bee Garden 96pp Cormorant (Markham, ON) Pb $18.

Porter, Pamela Late Moon 110pp Ronsdale (Vancouver) Pb $15.95.

Priest, Robert Previously Feared Darkness 96pp ECW (Toronto) Pb $18.95.

Principe, Concetta Walking: Not a Nun’s Diary 100pp DC Books (Montréal) Pb $17.95.

Reibetanz, John Afloat 87pp Brick (London, ON) Pb $20.

Reiss, Murray The Survival Rate of Butterflies in the Wild 88pp Hagios (Regina) Pb $17.95.

Rempel, Al This Isn’t the Apocalypse We Hoped For 72pp Caitlin (Halfmoon Bay, BC) Pb $16.95.

Rhodes, Shane X: Poems and Anti-Poems 128pp Nightwood (Gibson’s, BC) Pb $18.95.

Richardson, Robin Knife Throwing through Self-Hypnosis 80pp ECW (Toronto) Pb $18.95.

Rideout, Tanis Arguments with the Lake 72pp Wolsak and Wynn (Hamilton, ON) Pb $17.

Ridley, Sandra The Counting House 96pp BookThug (Toronto) Pb $20.

Rogal, Stan Love’s Not the Way To foreword Rob McLennan 96pp BookLand (Markham, ON) Pb $16.95 [haiku poems dedicated to the life and works of Richard Brautigan].

Rolfe, Rob Beyond Mudtown 88pp Quattro (Toronto) Pb $18.

Rooke, Leon The April Poems Porcupine’s Quill (Erin, ON) Pb $16.95.

Rosenfarb, Chava Exile at Last ed Goldie Morgentaler 70pp Guernica (Toronto) Pb $15.

Rowley, Mari-Lou Unus Mundus 95pp Anvil (Vancouver) Pb $18.

Saklikar, Renee Sarojini Children of Air India: Un/Authorized Exhibits and Interjections 96pp Nightwood (Gibsons, BC) Pb $18.95.

Sanger, Peter Fireship: Early Poems, 1965-1991 192pp Gaspereau (Kentville, NS) Pb $25.95.

Scheier, Jacob Letter from Brooklyn 71pp ECW (Toronto) Pb $18.95.

Schonmaier, Eleonor Wavelengths of Your Song 188pp McGill-Queen’s Univ Press (Montréal) Pb $16.95.

Scobie, Stephen At the Limit of Breath: Poems on the Films of Jean-Luc Godard 104pp Univ of Alberta Press (Edmonton) Pb $19.95.

Severson-Baker, Juleta Incarnate 90pp Frontenac (Calgary) Pb $15.95.

Seymour, David For Display Purposes Only 80pp Coach House (Toronto) Pb $17.95.

Shields, Vanessa I Am That Woman 64pp Black Moss (Windsor, ON) Pb $17.

Shin, Ann The Family China 96pp Brick (Toronto) Pb $20

Terpstra, John Brilliant Falls 64pp Gaspereau (Kentville, NS) Pb $17.95.

Thammavongsa, Souvankham Light 80pp Pedlar (St. John’s, NL) Pb $20.

Thornton, Russell Birds, Metals, Stones & Rain 77pp Harbour (Madeira Park, BC) Pb $16.95.

Tostevin, Lola Lemire Singed Wings 96pp Talonbooks (Vancouver) Pb $16.95.

Tsiang, Sarah Status Update 88pp Oolichan (Fernie, BC) Pb $17.95.

Turner, Jacqueline The Ends of the Earth 240pp ECW (Toronto) Pb $18.95.

Vermette, Katherena North End Love Songs 96pp Muses’ Co (Winnipeg) Pb $14.95 [2012].

Weier, John Where Calling Birds Gather 132pp Turnstone (Winnipeg) Pb $17.

Zits, Paul William Massacre Street 128pp Univ of Alberta Press (Edmonton) Pb $19.95 [includes bibliographical references].

Drama

Billon, Nicolas Fault Lines: Three Plays 96pp Coach House (Toronto) Pb $18.95 [includes Greenland, Iceland and Faroe Islands].

Braem, Meg Blood: A Scientific Romance 128pp Playwrights Canada (Toronto) Pb$16.95.

Burrows, Joan Willow Quartet 112pp Playwrights Canada (Toronto) Pb $16.95.

Chafe, Rick The Secret Mask 124pp Playwrights Canada (Toronto) Pb $16.95.

Cruise, Maryjane Separate Beds 80pp Playwrights Canada (Toronto) Pb $16.95.

Cseke, Cole Jim Forgetting 60pp Scirocco (Winnipeg) Pb $15.95.

Devine, Sean Re:Union 96pp Scirocco (Winnipeg) Pb $15.95.

Gibson, Florence How Do I Love Thee? 112pp Playwrights Canada (Toronto) Pb $16.95.

Hannah, Don The Cave Painter & The Woodcutter 112pp Playwrights Canada (Toronto) Pb $16.95.

Healey, Michael Proud 96pp Playwrights Canada (Toronto) Pb $16.95.

Hewlett, Kate The Swearing Jar 86pp Scirocco (Winnipeg) Pb $15.95.

Highway, Tomson The (Post) Mistress 96pp Talonbooks (Vancouver) Pb $16.95.

Jeffery, Lawrence Frenchtown: A Drama about Shanghai 176pp Exile (Holstein, ON) Pb $19.95 [2012].

Johnson, Falen Salt Baby 74pp Scirocco (Winnipeg) Pb $15.95.

Karasik, Daniel The Remarkable Flight of Marnie McPhee 80pp Playwrights Canada (Toronto) Pb $16.95.

Kirkham, Gary Falling: A Wake 66pp Scirocco (Winnipeg) Pb $15.95.

Macdonald, Daniel A History of Breathing 128pp Playwrights Canada (Toronto) Pb $16.95.

MacIvor, Daniel Arigato, Tokyo 112pp Playwrights Canada (Toronto) Pb $16.95.

—– The Best Brothers 96pp Playwrights Canada (Toronto) Pb $16.95.

Mackey, Julia Jake’s Gift 48pp Scirocco (Winnipeg) Pb $14.95.

McIntyre, Hope and Cairn Moore Jail Baby 96pp Scirocco (Winnipeg) Pb $15.95.

Moore, Mavor Discovering Mavor Moore: An Exploration and Eight Works for the Stage ed Allan Boss 576pp Playwrights Canada (Toronto) Pb $29.95 [includes analysis by Boss and bibliographical references; 2011].

Morris, Christopher Night 112pp Playwrights Canada (Toronto) Pb $16.95 [includes Inuktitut translation by Martha Kyak].

Moscovitch, Hannah This Is War 168pp Playwrights Canada (Toronto) Pb $16.95.

Murphy, Colleen The Goodnight Bird 112pp Playwrights Canada (Toronto) Pb $16.95.

Panych, Morris In Absentia 128pp Talonbook (Vancouver) Pb $17.95 [2012].

Pierre, Joseph Jomo Shakespeare’s Nigga 80pp Playwrights Canada (Toronto) Pb $16.95.

Tannahill, Jordan Age of Minority: Three Plays 160pp Playwrights Canada (Toronto) Pb $19.95 [includes Get Yourself Home Skyler James, Peter Fechter: 59 Minutes, and rihannaboi95].

Walker, George F. King of Thieves 96pp Talonbooks (Vancouver) Pb $17.95 [2012].

Williams, Kenneth T. Cafe Daughter 60pp Scirocco (Winnipeg) Pb $15.95.

Fiction

Abbott, Linda The Hull Home Fire 231pp Flanker (St. John’s, NL) Pb $19.95.

Alexis, André A 96pp BookThug (Toronto) Pb $15 [novella].

Almond, Paul The Chaplain: Book Five of the Alford Saga 284pp Paul Almond Pb $19.95.

Armstrong, Théodora Clear Skies, No Wind, 100% Visibility 304pp Astoria (Toronto) Pb $22.95 [stories].

Atwood, Margaret MaddAddam 416pp McClelland & Stewart (Toronto) Hb $32.95.

Aubert, Rosemary Terminal Grill 120pp Quattro (Toronto) Pb $14.95.

Ayanoglu, Byron A Traveler’s Tale: A Memoir of Sorts 167pp DC Books (Montréal) Pb $18.95.

Babiak, Todd Come Barbarians 384pp HarperCollins (Toronto) Pb $19.99.

Baird, Frank Rob Macnab: A Story of Old Pictou introd Laurie Stanley-Blackwell 252pp Formac (Halifax, NS) Pb $16.95 [first pub 1923].

Bartleman, James The Redemption of Oscar Wolf 266pp Dundurn (Toronto) Hb $26.99.

Behrens, Peter Travelling Light 296pp Anansi (Toronto) Pb $18.95 [stories].

Berner, Geoff Festival Man 160pp Dundurn (Toronto) Pb $18.

Bhat, Shashi The Family Took Shape 240pp Cormorant (Toronto) Pb $22 [2012].

Binks, Andrew Strip 256pp Nightwood (Gibsons, BC) Pb $21.95.

Bird-Wilson, Lisa Just Pretending 232pp Coteau (Regina) Pb $18.95 [stories].

Blodgett, Astrid You Haven’t Changed a Bit 184pp Univ of Alberta Press (Edmonton, AB) Pb $19.95 [stories].

Blondal, Patricia A Candle to Light the Sun 320pp Oxford Univ Press (Toronto) Pb $16.95 [first pub 1960].

Blouin, Michael I Don’t Know How to Behave 208pp BookThug (Toronto) Pb $24.

Bock, Dennis Going Home Again 272pp HarperCollins (Toronto) Hb $27.99.

Browne, Christene Two Women 336pp Second Story (Toronto) Pb $19.95.

Boland, Katie Eat Your Heart Out 232pp Brindle & Glass (Victoria, BC) Pb $19.95 [stories].

Bonert, Kenneth The Lion Seeker 576pp 576pp Knopf Canada (Toronto) Pb $25.

Bowdring, Paul The Strangers’ Gallery 349pp Vagrant (Halifax, NS) Pb $21.95.

Bowering, Thea Love at Last Sight 262pp NeWest (Edmonton) Pb $17.95 [stories].

Boyden, Joseph The Orenda 256pp Hamish Hamilton (Toronto) Hb $32.

Bridge, Krista The Eliot Girls 336pp Douglas & McIntyre (Vancouver) Pb $29.95.

Bryan, Ali Roost 249pp Freehand (Calgary) Pb $21.95.

Buonaguro, Gina and Janice Kirk The Wolves of St. Peter’s 278pp HarperCollins (Toronto) Pb $19.99.

Buchanan,Cathy The Painted Girls 357pp HarperCollins (Toronto) Pb $22.99.

Bush, Catherine Accusation 358pp Goose Lane (Fredericton NB) Hb $32.95.

Cameron, Janet E. Cinnamon Toast and the End of the World 384pp Hachette Ireland

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Campbell, Rebecca The Paradise Engine 315pp NeWest (Edmonton) Pb $19.95.

Campbell, Wanda Hat Girl 256pp Signature (Winnipeg) Pb $17.95.

Canniff, Christopher The Abundance of the Infinite 120pp Quattro (Toronto) Pb $14.95 [2012].

Caple, Natalee In Calamity’s Wake 312pp HarperCollins (Toronto) Hb $19.99.

Carlucci, Paul The Secret Life of Fission 126pp Oberon (Ottawa, ON) Pb $39.99 [stories].

Carter, Lauren Swarm 279pp Brindle & Glass (Victoria, BC) Pb $19.95.

Catton, Eleanor The Luminaries 848pp McClelland & Stewart (Toronto) Hb $35.

Chang, Janey Three Souls 448pp HarperCollins (Toronto) Pb $19.99.

Chard, Rosie The Insistent Garden 253pp NeWest (Edmonton) Pb $19.95.

Charney, Ann Life Class 224pp Cormorant (Toronto) Pb $21.95.

Chong, Corinna Belinda’s Rings 248pp NeWest (Edmonton) Pb $19.95.

Chrostowska, S. D. Permission 189pp Dalkey Archive (Champaign, IL) Pb $14.50 [novel consisting of anonymous e-mail messages].

Clarke, Austin They Never Told Me 216pp Exile (Holstein, ON) Pb $19.95 [short stories].

Coady, Lynn Hellgoing Anansi 240pp (Toronto) Pb $19.95 [stories].

Cohen, Tish The Search Angel 315pp HarperCollins (Toronto) Pb $19.99.

Collis, Stephen The Red Album 248pp BookThug (Toronto) Pb $24.

Conall, Bill The Promised Land: A Novel of Cape Breton 238pp Glen Margaret

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Coupland, Douglas Worst. Person. Ever. 336pp Random House (Toronto) Hb $30.

Crane, Dede Every Happy Family 264pp Coteau (Regina) Pb $18.95.

Cullen, Nancy Jo Canary 128pp Biblioasis (Ottawa, ON) Pb $19.95 [stories].

Da Costa, Paulo The Green and Purple Skin of the World 208pp Freehand (Calgary) Pb $21.95 [stories].

Damioli, Carol Portrait in Black and Gold 260 Inanna (Toronto) Pb $22.95.

Davidson, Craig Cataract City 416pp Doubleday Canada (Toronto) Hb $29.95.

Davidson, Diana Pilgrimage 288pp Brindle & Glass (Victoria, BC) Pb $19.95.

Davis, Lauren B. The Empty Room 320pp HarperCollins (Toronto) Hb $24.99.

Deeth, Kelli The Other Side of Youth 168pp Arsenal (Vancouver) Pb $15.95 [stories].

Dempster, Barry The Outside World 250pp Pedlar (St. John’s, NL) Pb $22.

De Nikolits, Lisa A Glittering Chaos 300pp Innana (Toronto) Pb $22.95.

De Sa, Anthony Kicking the Sky 336pp Doubleday Canada (Toronto) Hb $29.95.

DeSoto, Lewis The Restoration Artist 288pp HarperCollins (Toronto) Hb $29.99.

Domet, Stephanie Fallsy Downsies 360pp Invisible (Halifax, NS) Pb $21.95.

Downe, Susan Juanita Wildrose: My True Life 250pp Pedlar (St. John’s, NL) Pb $22.

Dubois, Jocelyne World of Glass 120pp Quattro (Toronto) Pb $14.95 [novella].

Eaton, Chris Chris Eaton: A Biography 300pp BookThug (Toronto) Pb $25.

Elliott, Lorne Beach Reading 300 pp Acorn (Charlottetown, PEI) Pb $22.95.

Fagan, Cary A Bird’s Eye 224p Anansi (Toronto) Pb $19.95.

Fantetti, Eufemia A Recipe for Disaster & Other Unlikely Tales of Love 64pp Mother

Tongue (Salt Spring Island, BC) Pb $17.95 [stories].

Favro, Terri The Proxy Bride 123pp Quattro (Toronto) Pb $14.95.

Fawcett, Brian The Last of the Lumbermen 320pp Cormorant (Toronto) Pb $21.95.

Flood, Cynthia Red Girl Rat Boy 192pp Biblioasis (Windsor, ON) Pb $18.95 [stories].

Fowles, Stacey May Infidelity 227pp ECW (Toronto) Pb $18.95.

Fraser, Raymond Bliss and Other Stories 175pp Broken Jaw (Fredericton, NB) Pb $26.

Frey, Cecelia The Long White Sickness 187pp Inanna (Toronto) Pb $22.95.

Gaudio, Claudio Texas 198pp Quattro (Toronto) Pb $18.95 [2012].

Gilmor, Don Mount Pleasant 304pp Random House (Toronto) Hb $29.95.

Gilmour, David Extraordinary 200pp HarperCollins (Toronto) Hb $23.99.

Glover, Douglas Savage Love 264pp Goose Lane (Fredericton, NB) Hb $29.95 [stories].

Goldbach, John The Devil and the Detective 160pp Coach House (Toronto) Pb $18.95.

Grady,Wayne Emancipation Day 336pp Doubleday Canada (Toronto) Pb $24.95.

Greer, Darren Just beneath My Skin 240pp Cormorant (Markham, ON) Pb $21.

Gundlack, Kirsten Inheritance 120pp Quattro (Toronto) Pb $14.95 [novella].

Guzzo-McParland, Connie The Girls of Piazza d’Amore 164pp Linda Leith (Montreal) Pb $13.95.

Hardy, Melissa Surface Rights 296pp Dundurn (Toronto) Pb $21.99.

Harrison, A.S.A. The Silent Wife 336pp Penguin Canada (Toronto) Pb $18.

Harvey, Stella Leventoyannis Nicolai’s Daughters 336pp Signature (Winnipeg) Pb $22.95.

Heinonen, Sara Dear Leaves, I Miss You All 200pp Mansfield (Toronto) Pb $20.

Heiti, Matthew The City Still Breathing 160pp Coach House (Toronto) Pb $18.95.

Henderson, Keith The Roof Walkers 266pp DC Books (Montréal) Pb $21.95.

Hepburn, Janet Flee, Fly, Flown 237pp Second Story (Toronto) Pb $19.95.

Hingston, Michael The Dilettantes 272pp Freehand (Calgary) Pb $21.95.

Hollihan, Keith Flagged Victor 376pp HarperCollins (Toronto) Hb $32.99.

Hopkinson, Nalo Sister Mine 320pp Grand Central (New York, NY) Pb $15.

Hunter, Martin The Critic 240pp Cormorant (Markham, ON) Pb $21.

Ireland, Ann The Blue Guitar 256pp Dundurn (Toronto) Pb $21.99.

Jiles, Paulette Lighthouse Island 392pp William Morrow (New York, NY) US $26.99.

Johnston, Wayne The Son of a Certain Woman 448pp Knopf Canada (Toronto) Hb $32.

Kalla, Daniel Rising Sun, Falling Shadow 343pp HarperCollins (Toronto) Pb $24.99.

Kaufman, Andrew Born Weird 288pp Random House (Toronto) Pb $22.95.

Kavanaugh, Ed Strays 208pp Killick (St. John’s, NL) Pb $18.95 [stories].

Kay, Ailsa Under Budapest 264pp Goose Lane (Fredericton, NB) Pb $19.95.

Kearney, Greg The Desperates 232pp Cormorant (Toronto) Pb $21.95.

Klassen, Sarah The Wittenbergs 432pp Turnstone (Winnipeg) Pb $21.

Kowalski, William The Hundred Hearts 292pp Thomas Allen (Toronto) Pb $24.95.

Lambert, Shaena Oh, My Darling 208pp HarperCollins (Toronto) Hb $24.99 [stories].

Lawson, Mary Road Ends 336pp Knopf Canada (Toronto) Hb $29.95.

Lazurko, Anne Dollybird 256pp Coteau (Regina) Pb $19.95.

Leduc, Amanda The Miracles of Ordinary Men 392pp ECW (Toronto) Pb $18.95.

Leveille, Kathy-Diane Standing in the Whale’s Jaw 250pp Tightrope (Barrie, ON) Pb $21.95.

Levy, Jerry Urban Legend 208pp Thistledown (Saskatoon) Pb $18.95[stories].

Little, Ashley Anatomy of a Girl Gang 256pp Arsenal Pulp (Vancouver, BC) Pb $16.95 [novel told in six voices].

LoveGrove, Jennifer Watch How We Walk 260pp ECW (Toronto) Pb $18.95.

Lundrigan, Nicole The Widow Tree 312pp Douglas & McIntyre (Madeira Park, BC) Pb $22.95.

MacDonald, Ed Atomic Storybook 256pp Anvil (Vancouver) Pb $20.

Macfarlane, David The Figures of Beauty 352pp HarperCollins (Toronto) Hb $29.95.

MacLeod, Alison Unexploded 240pp Hamish Hamilton (Toronto) Pb $18.

MacNeil, Robert Portrait of Julia 352pp Formac (Halifax, NS, Canada) Hb $29.95.

Maitland, Colette Keeping the Peace 238pp Biblioasis (Windsor, ON) Pb $19.95 [stories].

McAdam, Colin A Beautiful Truth 304pp Hamish Hamilton (Toronto) Hb $29.95.

McGill, Robert Once We Had a Country 416pp Knopf Canada (Toronto) Pb $24.95.

McKenzie, Catherine Hidden 304pp HarperCollins (Toronto) Pb $19.99.

McPherson, Christian Cube Squared 256pp Nightwood (Gibsons, BC) Pb $21.95.

Messud, Claire The Woman Upstairs 272pp Knopf Canada (Toronto) Hb $29.95.

Mirolla, Michael The Giulio Metaphysics III 201pp Leapfrog (Fredonia, NY) Pb $17.50.

Miscione, Christine Auxiliary Skins 160pp Exile (Holstein, ON) Pb $16.95 [stories].

Moloney, Susie Things Withered 300pp ChiZine (Toronto) Pb $18.95 [stories].

Moore, Lisa Caught 304pp Anansi (Toronto) Hb $29.95.

Morse, Garry Thomas Minor Episodes; Major Ruckus 275pp Talonbooks (Vancouver) Pb $16.95 [2012].

Mulligan, Claire The Dark 528pp Doubleday Canada (Toronto) Hb $32.95.

Nawaz, Saleema Bone and Bread 448pp Anansi (Toronto) Pb $22.95.

Nixon, Rosemary Are You Ready to Be Lucky? 232pp Freehand (Calgary) Pb $21.95 [stories].

Novik, Mary Muse 336pp Doubleday Canada (Toronto) Pb $22.95.

Ozeki, Ruth A Tale for the Time Being 432pp Penguin Canada (Toronto) Pb $17.

Panhuyzen, Brian The Sky Manifest 317pp ECW (Toronto) Pb $18.95.

Para, Kathryn Lucky 224pp Mother Tongue (Salt Spring Island, BC) Pb $21.95.

Pelley, Chad Every Little Thing 277pp Breakwater (St. John’s, NL) Pb $21.95.

Pigeon, Marguerite Open Pit 286pp NeWest (Edmonton) Pb $20.

Pyper, Andrew The Demonologist 320pp Simon & Schuster (New York) Pb $17.

Quartermain, Meredith Rupert’s Land 303pp NeWest (Edmonton) Pb $20.95.

Quist, Jennifer Love Letters to the Angels of Death 176pp Linda Leith (Westmount, QC) Pb $16.95.

Quon, Anna Low 288pp Invisible (Halifax) Pb $19.95.

Rakoff, David Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish 128pp Doubleday (Toronto) Hb $32.

Reaume, Marissa Shallow Enough to Walk Through 207pp NeWest (Edmonton) Pb$19.95.

Riddell, John Writing Surfaces: Selected Fiction of John Riddell ed Derek Beaulieu and Lori Emerson 164pp Wilfrid Laurier Univ Press (Waterloo, ON) Pb $19.99 [poems and short stories; includes bibliographical references].

Rogers, Ian Every House Is Haunted 296pp ChiZine (Toronto) Pb $18.95 [stories; 2012].

Rooke, Leon Wide World in Celebration and Sorrow: Acts of Kamikaze Fiction 240pp Exile (Holstein, ON) Pb $19.95 [stories; 2012].

Roscoe, Patrick The Laboratory of Love 320pp Arsenal Pulp (Vancouver) Pb $18.95 [stories].

Ross, Oakland Empire of Yearning 352pp HarperCollins (Toronto) Pb $21.99.

Rubinsky, Holley South of Elfrida 232pp Brindle & Glass (Victoria, BC) Pb $19.95 [stories].

Ruth, Elizabeth Matadora 320pp Cormorant (Markham, ON) Pb $21.95.

Selvadurai, Shyam The Hungry Ghosts 384pp Doubleday (Toronto) Hb $29.95.

Shea, Theresa The Unfinished Child 312pp Brindle & Glass (Victoria, BC) Pb $19.95.

Sibum, Norm The Traymore Rooms 608pp Biblioasis (Windsor, ON) Pb $24.95.

Singh, Jaspreet Helium 290pp Bloomsbury USA (New York) US $26.50.

Slayter, Rebecca Silver In the Land of Birdfishes 368pp HarperCollins Canada (Toronto) Pb $21.99.

Soderstrom, Mary Desire Lines: Stories of Love and Geography 153pp Oberon (Ottawa, ON) Hb $39.95 [stories].

Sullivan, Andrew All We Want Is Everything 184pp Arbeiter Ring (Winnipeg, MB) Pb $16.95 [stories].

Swan, Mary My Ghosts 304pp Knopf Canada (Toronto) Hb $29.95.

Szado, Ania Studio Saint-Ex 368pp Viking Canada (Toronto) Hb $30.

Thornton, Ian The Great and Calamitous Tale of Johan Thoms 336pp Touchstone (New York, NY) Hb $29.99.

Tilson, Sonia Monkey Puzzle Tree 256pp Biblioasis (Windsor, ON) Pb $19.95.

Tsabari, Ayelet The Best Place on Earth 224pp HarperCollins Hb $24.99 [stories].

Unwin, Peter Life without Death and Other Stories Cormorant 240pp (Markham, ON) Pb $21.

Virgo, Sean Dibidalen: Ten Stories 168pp Thistledown (Saskatoon) Pb $18.95.

Vyleta, Dan The Crooked Maid 440pp HarperCollins (Toronto) Pb $19.99.

Wagamese, Richard Him Standing 136pp Raven (Victoria, BC) Pb $19.95.

Ward, Kelly Keep It Beautiful 200pp Tightrope (Toronto) Pb $21.95 [stories].

Whetter, Darryl Keeping Things Whole 268pp Nimbus (Halifax, NS) Pb $19.95.

Whitson, Audrey The Glorious Mysteries and Other Stories 224pp Thistledown (Saskatoon) Pb $18.95.

Wilk, Lucie The Strength of Bone 352pp Biblioasis (Windsor, ON) Pb $19.95.

Wilkshire, Claire Maxine 320pp Breakwater (St. John’s, NL) Pb $19.95.

Wilson, D. W. Ballistics 400pp Hamish Hamilton (Toronto) Hb $30.

Winter, Michael Minister without Portfolio 336pp Hamish Hamilton (Toronto) Hb $30.

Witterick, J. L. My Mother’s Secret 208pp Penguin Canada (Toronto) Hb $20.

Worth, Liz PostApoc 184pp NON (Vancouver) Pb $19.95.

Wuitchik, Michael My Heart Is Not My Own 384pp Penguin Canada (Toronto) Pb $22.

Translations

Aquin, Hubert The Invention of Death trans Joseph Jones 120pp Quattro (Toronto) Pb $14.95 [trans of French novel L’invention de la mort].

Brossard, Nicole White Piano trans Robert Majzels and Erin Mouré 112pp Coach House (Toronto) Pb $17.95 [trans of French poetry collection Blanc piano].

Catalano, Francis Where Spaces Glow trans Christine Tipper 110pp Guernica (Toronto) Pb $20 [trans of French poetry collection Qu’une lueur des lieux].

Daigle, France For Sure trans Robert Majzels 400pp Anansi (Toronto) Pb $24.95 [trans of French novel Pour sûr].

Dalpé, Jean Marc Lucky Lady & Le Chien trans Robert Dickson and Maureen Labonté 144pp Playwrights Canada (Toronto) Pb $18.95 [trans of French plays Lucky Lady and Le chien].

Daoust, Jean-Paul The Sandbar trans Susan Ouriou and Christelle Morelli 120pp Quattro (Toronto) Pb $14.95 [trans of French novel Sand Bar].

Eddie, Christine The Douglas Notebooks: A Fable trans Sheila Fischman 180pp Goose Lane (Fredericton, NB) Pb $19.95 [trans of French novel Les carnets de Douglas].

Fontaine, Naomi Kuessipan trans David Homel 104pp Arsenal Pulp (Vancouver) Pb $14.95 [trans of French novel with same title about Innu native people].

Hamelin, Louis October 1970 trans Wayne Grady 600pp Anansi (Toronto) Pb $24.95 [trans of French novel La constellation du Lynx].

Lamontagne, Sonia On Butterfly Wings trans Howard Scott 72pp Bookland (Markham, ON) Pb $15.95 [trans of French poetry collection À tire d’ailes].

Leblanc, Perrine Kolia trans David Scott Hamilton 224pp Anansi (Toronto) Pb $22.95 [trans of French novel L’homme blanc].

Melançon, Robert For as Far as the Eye Can See trans Judith Cowan 160pp Biblioasis (Windsor, ON) Pb $19.95 [trans of French poetry collection Le paradis des apparences : essai de poèmes réalistes].

Mouawad, Wajdi Heavens trans Linda Gaboriau 160pp Playwrights Canada (Toronto) Pb $18.95 [trans of French play Ciels].

Nepveu, Pierrre The Major Verbs trans Donald Winkler 72pp Signal (Montréal) Pb $18 [trans of French poetry collection Les verbes majeurs].

Segura, Mauricio Eucalyptus trans Donald Winkler 128pp Biblioasis (Windsor, ON) Pb $18.95 [trans of French novel with same title].

Théoret, France The Stalinist’s Wife trans Luise von Flotow 160pp Guernica (Toronto) Pb $20 [trans of French novel La femme du stalinien].

Letters and Autobiography

Dawn, Amber How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler’s Memoir 160pp Arsenal Pulp (Vancouver) Pb $15.95.

Fetherling, George The Writing Life: Journals, 1975-2005 ed Brian Busby 432pp McGill-Queen’s Univ Press (Montréal) Hb $34.95.

Glassco, John The Heart Accepts It All: Selected Letters of John Glassco ed Brian Busby 272pp Véhicule (Montréal) Pb $22 [includes bibliographical references and index].

Humphreys, Helen Nocturne: On the Life and Death of My Brother 224pp HarperCollins (Toronto) Hb $24.99.

Hunter, Martin Still Hunting 272pp ECW (Toronto) Pb $19.95.

Leiren-Young, Mark Free Magic Secrets Revealed 256pp Harbour (Madeira Park, BC) Pb $26.95.

Montgomery, L. M. The Complete Journals of L.M. Montgomery: The PEI Years, 1901-1911 ed Mary Henley Rubio and Elizabeth Hillman illus 444pp Oxford Univ Press Hb $39.95.

Szanto, George Bog Tender: Coming Home to Nature and Memory 272pp Brindle & Glass (Victoria, BC) Pb $24.95.

Uppal, Priscila Projection: Encounters with My Runaway Mother 270pp Dundurn (Toronto) Pb $24.99.

Anthologies

#3 ShortPlays: Three Short Plays ed Fraser MacFarlane 35pp One Act Play Depot (Spiritwood, SK) Pb $6.95 [includes Paul Sohar’s The Renewal, Mark Rigney’s and Roy C. Berkowitz’s Goin’ Under].

The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2013 ed Sue Goyette series ed Molly Peacock 200pp Tightrope (Barrie, ON) Pb $19.95.

Best Canadian Stories 2013 ed John Metcalf 167pp Oberon (Ottawa) Hb $39.95.

The Breakwater Book of Contemporary Newfoundland Poetry ed Mark Callanan and James Langer 216pp Breakwater (St. John’s, NL) Pb $19.95.

Cloudburst: An Anthology of Hispanic Canadian Short Stories eds Luis Molina Lora and Julio Torres-Recinos revised Hugh Hazelton 316pp Univ of Ottawa Press (Ottawa) Pb $18.95.

The Cuffer Anthology Volume V: A Collection of Short Stories from Newfoundland and Labrador ed Pam Frampton 200pp Killick (St. John’s, NL) Pb $16.95.

CVC Book Three: Carter V. Cooper Short Fiction Anthology Series ed Gloria Vanderbilt 208pp Exile (Holstein, ON) Pb $19.95.

The Exile Book of Yiddish Women Writers ed Frieda Johles Forman trans Sam Blatt et al 306pp Exile (Holstein, ON) Pb $19.95 [includes bibliographical references and glossary of Yiddish words with English trans].

Friend. Follow. Text: #StoriesFromLivingOnline ed Shawn Syms 190pp Enfield & Wizenty (Winnipeg) Pb $19.95.

Fronteras Vivientes: Eight Latina/o Canadian Plays ed Natalie Alvarez 496pp Playwrights Canada (Toronto) Pb $29.95 [includes bibliographical references].

The Great Black North: Contemporary African Canadian Poetry ed Valerie Mason-John and Kevan Anthony Cameron 256pp Frontenac (Calgary) Pb $21.95.

The Griffin Poetry Prize 2013 Anthology: A Selection of the Shortlist ed Suzanne Buffam, Mark Doty, and Wang Ping 128pp Anansi (Toronto) Pb $19.95.

The Journey Prize Stories 25: The Best of Canada’s New Writers 256pp select Miranda Hill, Mark Medley and Russell Wangersky McClelland & Stewart (Toronto) Pb $17.99.

Oxford Book of Canadian Verse ed Wilfred Campbell 368pp Oxford Univ Press (Don Mills, ON) Pb $19.95 [reissue of edition pub in 1913 with new introduction and front matter; includes indexes].

Running the Whale’s Back: Stories of Faith and Doubt from Atlantic Canada ed Andrew Atkinson and Mark Harris 304pp Goose Lane (Fredericton, NB) Pb $19.95.

Shy: An Anthology eds Naomi K. Lewis and Rona Altrows 192pp Univ of Alberta Press (Edmonton) Pb $24.95.

The Stories That Are Great within Us ed Barry Callaghan introd Matt Shaw 380pp Exile (Holstein, ON) Pb $24.95.

Two-Spirit Acts: Queer Indigenous Performances ed Jean O’Hara 160pp illus Playwrights Canada (Toronto) Pb $22.95.

Whisk : A Haikai No Renga Cycle Yoko’s Dogs 66pp Pedlar (St. John’s, NL) Pb $20 [collaboration on a poetry series by four poets: Susan Gillis, Mary di Michele, Jan Conn and Jane Munro].

Whisky Sour City ed Vanessa Shields 80pp Black Moss (Windsor, ON) Pb $16.95 [poems celebrating Windsor, Ontario].

Criticism

General Studies

Avant-Garde Canadian Literature: The Early Manifestations Gregory Betts 328pp Univ of Toronto Press (Toronto, ON) Hb $65.

Career Limiting Moves: Interviews, Rejoinders, Essays, Reviews Zachariah Wells 320pp Biblioasis (Windsor, ON) Pb $21.95.

“Cascadia Redux: Chronicle of a Return to the (Extra) West” Katherine Ann Roberts Canadian Literature 218 pp117-133.

Centering Anishinaabeg Studies: Understanding the World through Stories ed Jill Doerfler Niigaanwewidam, James Sinclair and Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark 417pp Univ of Manitoba Press (Winnipeg, MB) Pb $29.95.

Double-Takes: Intersections between Canadian Literature and Film ed David R. Jarraway 366pp Univ of Ottawa Press (Ottawa) Pb $39.95.

The Farm Novel in North America: Genre and Nation in the United States, English Canada, and French Canada, 1845-1945 Florian Freitag 372pp Camden House (Rochester, NY) US $75.

Garden Plots: Canadian Women Writers and Their Literary Gardens Boyd Shelley 350pp McGill-Queens’ Univ Press (Montreal) Pb $29.95.

Greening the Maple: Canadian Ecocriticism in Context ed Ella Soper and Nicholas Bradley 624pp Univ of Calgary Press (Calgary) Pb $44.95.

Indigenous North American Drama: A Multivocal History ed introd Birgit Däwes 256pp State Univ of New York Press (Albany, NY) US $75.

In the Interval of the Wave: Prince Edward Island Women’s Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Life Writing Mary McDonald-Rissanen 304pp McGill-Queen’s Univ Press (Montreal) Hb $95.

Keepers of the Code: English-Canadian Literary Anthologies and the Representation of the Nation Robert Lecker 388pp Univ of Toronto Press (Toronto) Pb $34.95.

Language Matters: Interviews with 22 Quebec Poets Carolyn Marie Souaid & Endre Farkas 144pp Signature (Winnipeg) Pb $18.95.

Latina/o Canadian Theatre and Performance ed Natalie Alvarez 296pp Playwrights Canada (Toronto) Pb $25.

The Metaphor of Celebrity: Canadian Poetry and the Public, 1955-1980 Joel Deshaye 272pp Univ of Toronto Press (Toronto) Hb $50.

The Newfoundland Diaspora: Mapping the Literature of Out-Migration Jennifer Bowering Delisle 211pp Wilfrid Laurier Univ Press (Waterloo, ON) Pb $42.99.

Performing Autobiography: Contemporary Canadian Drama Jenn Stephenson 224pp Univ of Toronto Press (Toronto) Hb $45.

The Pigheaded Soul: Essays and Reviews on Poetry and Culture Jason Guriel 272pp Porcupine’s Quill (Erin, ON) Hb $22.95.

Poetic Community: Avant-Garde Activism and Cold War Culture Stephen Voyce 352pp Univ of Toronto Press (Toronto) Hb $65.

“Poets on the Mat: Fighting for Muscle and Metaphor” Anita Lahey, Sharon McCartney and Kerry Ryan New Quarterly 127 pp82-91.

“Reading Around the Dotted Line: From the Contact Zones to the Heartlands of First Nations/Canadian Literatures” David Stirrup pp307-329 in The Native American Renaissance: Literary Imagination and Achievement ed introd Alan R. Velie and A. Robert Lee 376pp Univ of Oklahoma Press (Norman, OK) Pb $29.95.

Reproductive Acts: Sexual Politics in North American Fiction and Film Heather Latimer 203pp McGill-Queen’s Univ Press (Montréal) Pb $29.95.

“‘Revolutionary Viragoes’: Othered Mothering in Afro-Caribbean Diaspora Literature” Nancy Kang Women’s Studies 42(6) pp696-719.

Rewriting the Break Event: Mennonites and Migration in Canadian Literature Robert Zacharias 232pp Univ of Manitoba Press (Winnipeg, MB) Pb $31.95.

Sanctioned Ignorance: The Politics of Knowledge Production and the Teaching of the Literatures of Canada Paul Martin 310pp Univ of Alberta Press (Edmonton) Pb $49.95.

“Transculturation and Narration in the Black Diaspora of the Americas” Roland Walter pp63-76 in Postcolonial Translocations: Cultural Representation and Critical Spatial Thinking eds introd Marga Munkelt, Markus Schmitz, Mark Stein, and Silke Stroh 414pp Rodopi (Amsterdam) US $151.

“Two Nations, One Genre? The Beginnings of the Modernist Short Story in the United States and Canada” Reingard M. Nischik pp277-289 in Cultural Circulation: Dialogues between Canada and the American South ed introd Waldemar Zacharasiewicz and Christoph Irmscher 398pp Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (Vienna).

Trans/Acting Culture, Writing, and Memory: Essays in Honour of Barbara Godard ed Eva C. Karpinski et al 394pp Wilfrid Laurier Univ Press (Waterloo, ON) Pb $42.99.

Writing Unemployment: Worklessness, Mobility, and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century Canadian Literatures Jody Mason 272pp Univ of Toronto Press (Toronto) Hb $55.

Studies Of Individual Writers

Atwood, Margaret “The Bible’s Paradise and Oryx and Crake’s Paradice: A Comparison of the Relationships between Humans and Nature” Rhona Trauvitch pp165-180 in Plants and Literature: Essays in Critical Plant Studies 270pp ed introd Randy Laist Rodopi (Amsterdam, Netherland) Pb $79.80.

—– “Breaking the Circle of Dystopia: Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale” Adelina Cataldo pp156-173 in Women’s Utopian and Dystopian Fiction ed introd Sharon R. Wilson 214pp Cambridge Scholars (Newcastle upon Tyne, England) US $75.99.

—– “Canadian Female Gothic on the Foreign Border: Margaret Atwood’s Bodily Harm and Karen Connelly’s Burmese Lessons” Marlene Goldman University of Toronto Quarterly 82(2) pp225-241.

—– “Dying in a State of Grace: Memory, Duality, and Uncertainty in Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace” John O’Neill Textual Practice 27(4) pp651-670.

—– “Eco-Dystopia: Reproduction and Destruction in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake” Allison Dunlap Journal of Ecocriticism 5(1) pp1-15.

—– “Girl World and Bullying: Intersubjective Shame in Margaret Atwood’s Cat’s Eye” Laura Martocci pp149-165 in The Female Face of Shame ed introd Erica L. Johnson and Moran Patricia 268pp Indiana Univ Press (Bloomington, IN) Pb $26.

—– “Immortality and Immunity in Margaret Atwood’s Futuristic Dystopias” Mercedes Díaz Dueñas pp255-270 in Community in Twentieth-Century Fiction ed Paula Martín Salván and Gerardo Rodríguez Salas ed introd Julián Jiménez Heffernan 278pp Palgrave Macmillan (New York) Hb $95.

—– “Is ‘Eco’ Enough?: Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake, Wayland Drew’s The Erthring Cycle, and Evolutionary Fiction” Andrew Belyea pp183-198 in Words for a Small Planet: Ecocritical Views ed Nanette Norris introd Andrew Belyea pref Annie Merrill 266pp Ingram Lexington (Lanham, MD) US $85.

—– “Layers of Time: Margaret Atwood’s Handling of Time in The Handmaid’s Tale” Charlotte Templin Women’s Utopian and Dystopian Fiction pp174-185 [see “Breaking the Circle”, this section].

—– Margaret Atwood and the Labour of Literary Celebrity Lorraine M. York 232pp Univ of Toronto Press (Toronto) Pb $29.95.

—– “Margaret Atwood’s Feminist Ethics of Gracious Housewifery” Tammy Amiel Houser Partial Answers 11(1) pp109-132.

—– “Medusa as Female Eye or Icon in Atwood, Murdoch, Carter, and Plath” Gillian M.E. Alban Mosaic 46(4) pp163-182.

—– see Munro, Alice, “Murderous Pleasures”, this section

—– “Our Future Is Our Past: Corporate Medievalism in Dystopian Fiction” Amy S. Kaufman pp11-19 in Corporate Medievalism II ed introd Karl Fugelso 218pp Brewer (Cambridge, England) US $90.

—– “Rereading Marge Piercy and Margaret Atwood: Eco-Feminist Perspectives on Nature and Technology” Soraya Copley Critical Survey 25(2) pp40-56.

—– “(Re-)Visions of the Buried Self: Childhood Trauma and Self-Narration in Margaret Atwood’s Cat’s Eye” Christa Schönfelder pp257-274 in Haunted Narratives: Life Writing in an Age of Trauma ed introd Gabriele Rippl, Philipp Schweighauser and Therese Steffen ed Tiina Kirss ed afterword Margit Sutrop 360pp Univ of Toronto Press (Toronto) Hb $65.

—– “Screen Memories: Maternal After-Images in Margaret Atwood’s Dystopian Novels” Katherine V. Snyder Women’s Utopian and Dystopian Fiction pp186-203 [see “Breaking the Circle”, this section].

—– “Specters of US Empire in Atwood’s Fiction” in Romantic Revisions in Novels from the Americas Lauren Rule Maxwell 177pp Purdue Univ Press (West Lafayette, IN) Pb $45.

—– “Storytelling in Lessing’s Mara and Dann and Other Texts” Sharon R. Wilson Women’s Utopian and Dystopian Fiction pp23-29 [see “Breaking the Circle”, this section].

—– “‘Summoning Your Youth at Will’: Memory, Time, and Aging in the Work of Penelope Lively, Margaret Atwood, and Doris Lessing” Susan Watkins Frontiers 34(2) pp222-244.

—– “Towards ‘Feminist Mothering’: Oppositional Maternal Practice in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake” Suparna Banerjee Journal of International Women’s Studies 14(1) pp236-247.

—– “‘Underskin Journals of Susanna Moodie’: Atwood Editing Atwood” Julia P. W. Cooper, Norah Franklin, and Nathan W. Murray Canadian Literature 217 pp105-123.

—– “What Makes a Crake? The Reign of Technique and the Degradation of Language in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake” in Prophets of the Posthuman: American Fiction, Biotechnology, and the Ethics of Personhood Christina Bieber Lake 243pp Univ of Notre Dame Press (Notre Dame, IN) Pb $38.

Badami, Anita Rau “The Poetics and Politics of Snow” Mariam Pirbhai Canadian Literature 219 pp39-55.

Barr, Robert “On Aerial Rejectamenta” Steven Connor pp71-80 in Aesthetic Fatigue: Modernity and the Language of Waste ed preface introd John Scanlan ed preface John F. M. Clark 327pp Cambridge Scholars (Newcastle upon Tyne, England) US $84.99.

Bergen, David “Death, Animals, and Ethics in David Bergen’s The Time in Between” Katie Mullins Studies in Canadian Literature 38(1) pp248-266.

Bissoondath, Neil Devindra “Beyond the Multicultural Fairytale: Insider–Outsiders, the Politics of Violence, and the Transnational Turn in Canadian Literature” Pular Cuder-Domínguez pp137-157 in Transcultural Identities in Contemporary Literature ed introd Irene Gilsenan Nordin, Julie Hansen and Carmen Zamorano Llena 284pp Rodopi (Amsterdam) US $83.

—– “Transcultural Scenarios in Rohinton Mistry’s Such a Long Journey and Neil Bissoondath’s A Casual Brutality” Adriana Elena Stoican pp113-124 in Muses India: Essays on English-Language Writers from Mahomet to Rushdie ed introd Chetan Deshmane 228pp McFarland (Jefferson, NC) Pb $55.

Blodgett, Edward Dickinson “Possibles: Of Blodgett/Brault “Mustapha Marrouchi Mosaic 46(2) pp1-18.

Boyden, Joseph “Intimate Enemies: Weetigo, Weesageechak, and the Politics of Reconciliation in Tomson Highway’s Kiss of the Fur Queen and Joseph Boyden’s Three Day Road” Sophie McCall Studies in American Indian Literatures 25(3) pp57-85.

Brand, Dionne “Settler Nationalism and the Foreign: The Representation of the Exogene in Ernest Thompson Seton’s Two Little Savages and Dionne Brand’s What We All Long For” Lee Frew University of Toronto Quarterly 82(2) pp278-297.

Clements, Marie “Indigeneity, Time and the Cosmopolitics of Postcolonial Belonging in the Atomic Age” Helen Gilbert Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 15(2) pp195-210.

Collis, Stephen “‘I Diverge/You Diverge/We Diverge’: Scale, Occupation, and an Introduction to Stephen Collis’ The Barricades Project” Shaun Hanna Canadian Literature 216 pp51-65.

Connelly, Karen see Atwood, Margaret, “Canadian Female”, this section.

—– “‘Implicated by the Truth’” Smaro Kamboureli and Hannah McGregor University of Toronto Quarterly 82(2) pp205-224.

—– “Reading for the Other: Lessons from Karen Connelly’s The Lizard Cage” Lena Khor English Studies in Canada 39(2-3) pp89-113.

Coupland, Douglas “Fraught Ecstasy: Contemporary Encounters with Thoreau’s Postpristine Nature” David Dowling pp234-248 in Thoreauvian Modernities: Transatlantic Conversations on an American Icon ed introd François Specq and Laura Dassow Walls ed Michel Granger 310pp Univ of Georgia Press (Athens, GA) Pb $24.95.

—– “‘A Museum of Fifteen Years Ago’: Nostalgia in Three Novels by Douglas Coupland” Louis Greenberg Journal of Literary Studies 29(1) pp67-78.

—– “A (Queer) Souvenir of Canada: Douglas Coupland’s Transformative National Symbols” Ryan Melsom Canadian Literature 216 pp35-49.

Cusk, Rachel “Not Feminine Enough? Rachel Cusk’s Highly-Feminized World and Unfeminine Characters in Saving Agnes and The Country Life” Nicolas P. Boileau Anglistik 24(1) pp39-49.

Davies, Robertson “Cunning Man and/or Shaman? Robertson Davies’s Dr. Hullah” Martin Kuester pp61-70 in Communicating Disease: Cultural Representations of American Medicine ed introd Carmen Birkle and Johanna Heil 465pp Universitätsverlag Winter (Heidelberg, Germany).

—– “The Secret of Robertson Davies’ Cornish Communities” Mercedes Díaz Dueñas Community in Twentieth-Century Fiction pp141-158 [see Atwood, Margaret, “Immortality and Immunity”, this section].

De Mille, James “The Limits of the Story: Reading the Castaway Narrative in A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder and Life of Pi” Daniela Janes Mosaic 46 (4) pp109-125.

Derksen, Jeff “‘I questioned authority and the question won’: Transnational Muscle Cars and the Neoliberal Order” Herb Wyile Canadian Literature 216 pp67-83.

Echlin, Kim A. “‘We Are the Other, the Other Is Us’” Smaro Kamboureli and Hannah McGregor University of Toronto Quarterly 82(2) pp132-149.

—– “Witnessing Cambodia’s Disappeared” Y-Dang Troeung University of Toronto Quarterly 82(2) pp150-167.

Edugyan, Esi “‘How a Girl from Canada Break the Bigtime’: Esi Edugyan and the Next Generation of Literary Celebrity in Canada” Lorraine York Canadian Literature 217 pp18-33.

Frye, Northrop “The Covering Cherub: Harold Bloom and Northrup [Northrop] Frye, 1959-69” Trevor Cook Modern Language Studies 42(2) pp10-33.

Gibb, Camilla “Transnationalism in Camilla Gibb’s Sweetness in the Belly” Esra Mirze Santesso pp132-156 in Disorientation: Muslim Identity in Contemporary Anglophone Literature Esra Mirze Santesso 233pp Palgrave Macmillan (New York) US $90.

Gowdy, Barbara “Our Animals, Ourselves: Representing Animal Minds in Timothy and The White Bone” Ryan Hediger pp35-47 in Speaking for Animals: Animal Autobiographical Writing ed introd Margo DeMello 274pp Routledge (New York) US $125.

Hay, Elizabeth “Canadian Literary Representations of HIV/AIDS” Shoshannah Ganz pp1-11 in HIV in World Cultures: Three Decades of Representations ed Gustavo Subero 239pp Ashgate (Farnham, England) US $124.95.

Heighton, Steven “Cartographic Flights: Escape and Survival in Steven Heighton’s Every Lost Country” Giuseppina Botta Cuadernos de Literatura Inglesa y Norteamericana 16(1-2) pp61-70.

Helm, Michael “‘Putting the Strange in the Stranger’” Smaro Kamboureli and Hannah McGregor University of Toronto Quarterly 82(2) pp314-330.

Helwig, Maggie “Underground, Unseen, Unknown: Negotiating Toronto in Maggie Helwig’s Girls Fall Down” Andrew Lesk Canadian Literature 216 pp101-116.

Highway, Tomson “‘Difficult Forms of Knowing’: Enquiry, Injury, and Translocated Relations of Postcolonial Responsibility“ Diana Brydon pp3-28 in Postcolonial Translocations: Cultural Representation and Critical Spatial Thinking 414pp ed introd Marga Munkelt, Markus Schmitz, Mark Stein and Silke Stroh Rodopi (Amsterdam) US $140.40.

—– see Boyden, Joseph, this section

Hood, Hugh God’s Plenty: A Study of Hugh Hood’s Short Fiction W. J. Keith 248pp Biblioasis (Emeryville, ON) Pb $22.95.

Hopkinson, Nalo “Black Girlhood Interrupted: Race, Gender, and Colonization in Nalo Hopkinson’s Midnight Robber” Shelby Crosby pp187-202 in Contemporary Speculative Fiction ed introd M. Keith Booker 263pp Salem (Ipswich MA) US $85.

—– “Celebrating Difference: The Vampire in African-American and Caribbean Women’s Writing” Gina Wisker pp46-66 in Transnational and Postcolonial Vampires: Dark Blood ed introd Tabish Khair and Johan Höglund foreword Elleke Boehmer afterword David Punter 248pp Palgrave Macmillan (NewYork) US $95 [2012].

—– “‘They Can Fly’: The Postcolonial Black Body in Nalo Hopkinson’s Speculative Short Fiction” Lee Skallerup Bessette pp167-181 in The Postcolonial Short Story: Contemporary Essays ed introd Maggie Awadalla and Paul March-Russell 227pp Palgrave Macmillan (New York) US $95.

Huggan, Isabel see Munro, Alice, this section

Johnson, Pauline “Entangled Love: Marriage, Consent, and National Belonging in Works by E. Pauline Johnson and John M. Oskison” pp17-47 in Domestic Subjects: Gender, Citizenship, and Law in Native American Literature Beth H. Piatote 234pp Yale Univ Press (New Haven, CT) US $45.

—– “Unnatural Children: Adoption and Loss in S. Alice Callahan’s Wynema and E. Pauline Johnson’s ‘Catharine of the ‘Crow’s Nest’” Domestic Subjects pp49-89.

—– Mark My Words: Native Women Mapping Our Nations Mishuana Goeman 245pp Univ of Minnesota Press (Minneapolis, MN) Pb $25.

King, Thomas “Lifting ‘the Weight of the Continent’: Magical Realism on the North American Landscape” Shannin Schroeder pp213-240 in Moments of Magical Realism in US Ethnic Literatures ed introd Lyn Di Iorio Sandín and Perez Richard 279pp Palgrave Macmillan (New York, NY) US $95.

—– “Thomas King: Shifting Shapes to Tell Another Story” Carol Miller The Native American Renaissance pp161-173 [see “Reading Around the Dotted Line”, General Studies.

Kogawa, Joy Nozomi “Making the Silence Speak: A Critical Discussion of Trauma Transmission and Identity Formation” Stafanie Preuss Haunted Narratives pp245-253 [see Atwood, Margaret, “(Re-)Visions of the Buried Self”, this section].

—– “The Search for the Lost Parent in Joy Kogawa’s Obasan and Ene Mihkelson’s Ahasveeruse uni (The Sleep of Ahasuerus)” Eva Rein Haunted Narratives pp230-244 [see Atwood, Margaret, “(Re-)Visions of the Buried Self”, this section].

Kreisel, Henry “Suits: The Role of the Intellectual in Henry Kreisel’s The Rich Man” Katherine Shwetz Canadian Literature 216 pp197-202.

Kroetsch, Robert “Binder Twin” Laurie Ricou Canadian Literature 218 pp30-44.

—– see King, Thomas, “Lifting”, this section.

—– “‘Lingering after the Mass’” Thomas Wharton Canadian Literature 218 pp190-194.

—– “For Play and Gaming: Robert Kroetsch’s Ongoing Godgame” Paul Barrett Studies in Canadian Literature 38(1) pp94-112.

Lai, Larissa “Self and Other in Chinese Canadian Literature: Identity and Belonging in Larissa Lai’s When Fox Is a Thousand” Maren Freudenberg pp119-132 in Interculturalism in North America: Canada, the United States, Mexico, and Beyond ed introd Josef Raab and Alexander Greiffenstern 302pp Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier (Trier, Germany; Tempe, AZ) Pb $28.03.

Lampman, Archibald Archibald Lampman: Memory, Nature, Progress Eric Ball 384pp McGill-Queen’s University Press (Montreal) Pb $34.95.

Laurence, Margaret “Margaret Laurence” Carmen Luz Fuentes-Velásquez pp95-162 in Dangerous Writing: The Autobiographies of Willa Muir, Margaret Laurence and Janet Frame 300pp Rodopi (Amsterdam) Pb $91.

—– Racial, Ethnic, Gender and Class Representations in Margaret Laurence’s Writings Andreea Topor-Constantin 276pp Cambridge Scholars (Newcastle upon Tyne, England).

—– “Travel, Ethics, and Moral Distress in The Prophet’s Camel Bell” Suzanne Bailey University of Toronto Quarterly 82(2) pp168-184.

Lee, Nancy “Vancouver Stories: Nancy Lee and Alice Munro” Ailsa Cox The Postcolonial Short Story pp64-78 [see Hopkinson, Nalo, “‘They Can Fly’”, this section].

Lilburn, Tim “‘God Is in His Blank Spaces’: Quantum Theology in Tim Lilburn’s Names of God” Neil Querengesser Canadian Literature 218 pp100-115.

MacDonald, Ann-Marie “‘One Thing Can Look like Another’: The Aesthetics and Performance of Trauma in Ann-Marie MacDonald’s Fall on Your Knees” Michelle Coupal Studies in Canadian Literature 38(1) pp170-189.

McKay, Don “For the Birds: Poetry, Bird-Watching and Ethical Attentiveness” Sabine Kim pp257-267 in Ecology and Life Writing ed Alfred Hornung and Baisheng Zhao 413pp Universitätsverlag Winter (Heidelberg, Germany) US $72.

—– Ornithologies of Desire: Ecocritical Essays, Avian Poetics, and Don McKay Travis V. Mason 285pp Wilfrid Laurier Univ Press (Waterloo, ON) Hb $48.99.

McLachlan, Alexander “Alexander McLachlan: The ‘Robert Burns’ of Canada” Edward J. Cowan Studies in Scottish Literature 37(1) pp131-149.

MacLeod, Alistair “A Family of Migrant Workers: Region and the Rise of Neoliberalism in the Fiction of Alistair MacLeod” Jody Mason Studies in Canadian Literature 38(1) pp151-169.

—– “The Shifting Diaspora: Images of Home in Alistair Macleod’s No Great Mischief” Miasol Eguíbar Holgado ES: Revista de Filología Inglesa 34 pp115-130.

Maracle, Lee “‘Magic Moments’: Temporal Modelling and the Call for Responsibility in Lee Maracle’s Daughters Are Forever“ Elizabeth Jackson Studies in Canadian Literature 38(1) pp226-247.

Marlatt, Daphne “The Steveston Noh Project: The Gull as Intercultural Redress Theatre” Brenda Carr Vellino and Sarah Waisvisz Canadian Literature 216 pp118-137.

—– “Turning Round About: The Use of Nursery Rhyme in Daphne Marlatt’s Ana Historic” Shane Neilson Studies in Canadian Literature 38(1) pp136-150.

Martel, Yann “The Hunger: The Power and Politics of a (Post)Colonial Cannibal” Nicholas Brown Creighton pp53-71 in Diasporic Identities and Empire: Cultural Contentions and Literary Landscapes ed Anastasia Nicéphore and David Brooks 237pp Cambridge Scholars (Newcastle upon Tyne, England) US $75.99.

—– see De Mille, James, this section.

—– “Suffering Agency: Imagining Neoliberal Personhood in North America and Britain” Jane Elliott Social Text 31(2 [115]) pp83-101.

Mayr, Suzette “Fanged Nationalisms” Maude Lapierre Canadian Literature 219 pp76-92.

Michaels, Anne “Canadian Literature of ‘Here’ and ‘Elsewhere’: CanLit Balkans” Milena Marinkova British Journal of Canadian Studies 26(2) pp253-273.

—– “Tales from over There: The Uses and Meanings of Fairy-Tales in Contemporary Holocaust Narrative” Anna Hunter Modernism/Modernity 20(1) pp59-75.

Miki, Roy “The Mannequin & the Inverse Ratio: Roy Miki’s Mannequin Rising” Louis Cabri Capilano Review 3(20) pp29-36.

—– “Political Satire in a Detective Mode: Genre Theory and Rohinton Mistry’s Such a Long Journey” Kaustav Bakshi Muses India pp89-100 [see Bissoondath, Neil Devindra, “Transcultural”, this section].

—– “Psychic Unease and Unconscious Critical Agency: For an Anatomy of Postcolonial Melancholy” Rossella Ciocca pp177-197 in Ex-Centric Writing: Essays on Madness in Postcolonial Fiction ed introd Susanna Zinato and Annalisa Pes 202pp Cambridge Scholars (Newcastle upon Tyne, England).

—– “Suicide and Rebirth of Community in Rohinton Mistry’s A Fine Balance” Sukjoo Sohn Muses India pp101-112 [see Bissoondath, Neil Devindra, “Transcultural”, this section].

—– see Bissoondath, Neil Devindra, “Transcultural”, this section.

Montgomery, L. M. Anne around the World: L.M. Montgomery and Her Classic ed Jane Ledwell and Jean Mitchell 302pp McGill-Queen’s Univ Press (Montréal) Pb $29.95.

—– The L.M. Montgomery Reader: Volume One: A Life in Print ed Benjamin Lefebvre 464pp Univ of Toronto Press (Toronto) Hb $55.

Moodie, Susanna “The Reluctant Settler’s Narrative Delay: Weaning on Board Ship in Susanna Moodie’s Flora Lyndsay” Tamara S. Wagner Nineteenth-Century Contexts 35 (1) pp1-21.

Mootoo, Shani ‘The Flavors of Multi-Ethnic North American Literatures: Language, Ethnicity and Culinary Nostalgia” Astrid M. Fellner pp241-260 in Culinary Linguistics: The Chef’s Special ed introd Cornelia Gerhardt and Maximiliane Frobenius ed Susanne Ley 347pp Benjamins (Amsterdam) US $149.

—– “Illicit Intimacies, the Ramayana, and Synaesthetic Remembering in Shani Mootoo’s Valmiki’s Daughter” Donna McCormack pp. 203-228 in Critical Perspectives on Indo-Caribbean Women’s Literature ed introd Joy Mahabir and Mariam Pirbhai 274pp Routledge (New York) US $125.

—– Incestuous Rape, Abjection, and the Colonization of Psychic Space in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye and Shani Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms at Night” Emy Koopman Journal of Postcolonial Writing 49 3) pp303-315.

—– “Indo-Trinidadian Identities and Sexuality: A Survey of Shani Mootoo’s Fiction” Frank Birbalsingh Critical Perspectives on Indo-Caribbean Women’s Literature pp182-202 [see “Illicit Intimacies”, this section].

—– “Reading between the ‘Posts’: Systemic Violence and the Trope of Hybridity in the Postcolonial Novel” John Hyland Journal of Postcolonial Writing 49(1) pp4-15.

Munro, Alice “Alice Munro’s ‘Fits’ and ‘Open Secrets’: Secreting a Grotesque Atmosphere“ Elisabeth Fourmont Résonances 14 pp151-164.

—– “The Munro Woman: History as We Read It in the Stories of a Nobel Laureate” Robert Fulford Queen’s Quarterly 120(4) pp488-497.

—– “‘Murderous Pleasures’: The (Female) Gothic and the Death Drive in Selected Short Stories by Margaret Atwood, Isabel Huggan and Alice Munro” Tomasz Sikora pp203-216 in Gothic Topographies: Language, Nation Building and ‘Race’ ed introd P. M. Mehtonen and Savolainen Matti 234pp Ashgate (Farnham, England) US $119.95.

—– “‘Surprising Developments’: Midlife in Alice Munro’s Who Do You Think You Are? Sara Jamieson Canadian Literature 217 pp54-69.

—– see Lee, Nancy, this section.

Newlove, John “‘A Half-Understood Massiveness’: Revisiting John Newlove’s ‘The Pride’” J. A. Weingarten Studies in Canadian Literature 38(1) pp113-135.

Ondaatje, Michael “An Aesthetics of War: The Postcolonial Ethics of Anil’s Ghost” Ryan Mowat Journal of Postcolonial Writing 49(1) pp28-39.

—– see Bissoondath, Neil Devindra, “Beyond the Multicultural”, this section.

—– see Michaels, Anne, “Canadian Literature of ‘Here’”, this section.

—– “The Dead That Haunt Anil’s Ghost: Subaltern Difference and Postcolonial Melancholia” Mrinalini Chakravorty PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 128(3) pp542-558, 855.

—– “Literal and Literary Bystanders as Multitude and the Common: Michael Ondaatje, Anil’s Ghost, and Its Critical Reception” Lena Khor in Human Rights Discourse in a Global Network: Books beyond Borders 294pp Ashgate (Farnham, England) US $109.95.

—– “Michael Ondaatje’s Divisadero as Rhizomic Novel” Carmelina Concilio Journal of Commonwealth Literature 48(3) pp425-439.

—– “Postcolonialism and Nostalgia in Michael Ondaatje’s Divisadero” Georgiana Banita pp208-222 in Locating Postcolonial Narrative Genres ed introd Walter Goebeland Saskia Schabio 229pp Routledge (New York) US $125.

—– “Vanishing Points/Visible Fictions: The Textual Politics of Terror” Minoli Salgado Textual Practice 27(2) pp207-223.

—– “‘Yes, but… have you read his letters?’” Rachel Bower Canadian Literature 219 pp57-74.

Outram, Richard “Richard Outram and Barbara Howard’s Gauntlet Press: Expanding into the World” Patrick Warner Canadian Literature 217 pp88-101.

Page, P. K. “Troping the Foreign in P. K. Page’s ‘Questions and Images’” Hannah McGregor University of Toronto Quarterly 82(2) pp185-197.

Reaney, James The Emblems of James Reaney: Magnetically Drawn Thomas Gerry 200pp Porcupine’s Quill (Erin, ON) Pb $22.95.

Richardson, John “The ‘New World’ Gothic Monster: Spatio-Temporal Ambiguities, Male Bonding and Canadianness in John Richardson’s Wacousta” Matti Savolainen and Christos Angelis pp217-233 in Gothic Topographies: Language, Nation Building and ‘Race’ ed introd P. M. Mehtonen and Matti Savolainen 243pp Ashgate (Farnham, England) US $119.95.

Robertson, Lisa “‘If Everything Is Moving Where Is Here?’: Lisa Robertson’s Occasional Work on Cities, Space and Impermanence” Ryan Fitzpatrick and Susan Rudy British Journal of Canadian Studies 26(2) pp173-189.

—– “Zeta Landscape: Poetry, Place, Pastoral” Carol Watts pp281-304 in Placing Poetry ed introd Ian Davidson and Zoë Skoulding 313pp Rodopi (Amsterdam) Pb $98.

Seton, Ernest Thompson see Brand, Dionne, “Settler Nationalism”, this section

Shapton, Leanne “Exhibiting Lost Love: The Relational Realism of Things in Orhan Pamuk’s The Museum of Innocence and Leanne Shapton’s Important Artifacts” Zuzanna Jakubowski pp124-145 in Realisms in Contemporary Culture: Theories, Politics, and Medial Configurations ed introd Dorothee Birke and Stella Butter 234pp de Gruyter (Berlin, Germany) US $126.

Shields, Carol “‘Excursions into the Sublime’: A Personal Reminiscence of Carol Shields” Nora Foster Stovel Studies in Canadian Literature 38(1) pp267-280.

—– “‘Fragments on My Apple’: Carol Shields’ Unfinished Novel” Nora Foster Stovel Canadian Literature 217 pp186-195.

—– “Innovation and Reflection in the New Millennium: The ‘Double Voice’ in Carol Shields’s Short Fiction” Laurie Kruk Contemporary Women’s Writing 7(2) pp121-137.

—– “Reading Closely: Discursive Frames and Technological Mediations in Carol Shields’ Unless.” McGregor Canadian Literature 217 pp35-52.

Silvera, Makeda “At the Interstices of Diaspora: Queering the Long Story Short in Caribbean Literature by Women” M. Catherine Jonet The Postcolonial Short Story pp151-166 [see Hopkinson, Nalo, “‘They Can Fly’”, this section].

Sinclair, Alison “Where Blindness Is Not (?) a Disability: Alison Sinclair’s Darkborn Trilogy” Derek Newman-Stille Mosaic 46(3) pp43-58.

Taylor, Drew Hayden “Postcolonial Vampires in the Indigenous Imagination: Philip McLaren and Drew Hayden Taylor” Maureen Clark Transnational and Postcolonial Vampires pp121-137 [see Hopkinson, Nalo, “Celebrating Difference” this section].

Thien, Madeleine see Mootoo, Shani, “Flavors”, this section

Thúy, Kim “Refugee Gratitude” Vinh Nguyen Canadian Literature 219 pp17-36.

Toews, Miriam “Unfair Ground: Girlhood and Theme Parks in Contemporary Fiction” Sarah Graham Journal of American Studies 47(3) pp589-604.

Traill, Catharine Parr “Grappling with Respect: Copway and Traill in a Conversation That Never Took Place” Daniel Coleman English Studies in Canada 39(2-3) pp63-88.

Trethewey, Eric “‘Love and Knowledge’: Daughters and Fathers in Natasha Trethewey’s Thrall” Joseph Millichap Southern Quarterly 50(4) pp189-207.

—– “Re-reading Trethewey through Mixed Race Studies” Malin Pereira Southern Quarterly 50(4) pp123-152.

Vanderhaeghe, Guy “True West and Lying Marks: The Englishman’s Boy, Blood Meridian and the Paradox of the Revisionist Western” David H. Evans Texas Studies in Literature and Language 55(4) pp406-433.

—– “Wilderness, the West and the National Imaginary in Guy Vanderhaeghe’s The Englishman’s Boy” Mei-Chuen Wang British Journal of Canadian Studies 26(1) pp21-38.

Wagner, Colleen Yael “Farber’s Molora and Colleen Wagner’s The Monument as Post-Conflict Redress Theater” Brenda Carr Vellino and Sarah Gabriella Waisvisz College Literature 40(3) pp113-137.

Wah, Fred “‘When I Tree Myself’: Paratextual Elements in Fred Wah’s Poetic Life Writings” Erik Redling Ecology and Life Writing pp. 241-255 [see McKay, Don, “For the Birds”, this section].

Warner, Janet “The Sexual Life of Catherine B.: Women Novelists, Blake Scholars and Contemporary Fabulations of Catherine Blake” Angus Whitehead and Joel Gwunne pp193-210 in Sexy Blake ed introd Helen P. Bruder and Tristanne Connolly 260pp Palgrave Macmillan (New York) US $95.

Webb, Phyllis “‘The Great Dreams Pass On’: Phyllis Webb’s ‘Struggle of Silence’” Laura Cameron Canadian Literature 217 pp72-86.

Wong, Rita “Sustainable Urban Foragings in the Canadian Metropolis: Rummaging through Rita Wong’s Forage and Nicholas Dickner’s Nikolski” Catherine Bates British Journal of Canadian Studies 26(2) pp191-212.

—– “When Things Act Up: Thing Theory, Actor-Network Theory, and Toxic Discourse in Rita Wong’s Poetry” Matthew Zantingh Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 20(3) pp622-646.

Wright, Richard B. “Coming to Terms: Narrating Loss in John Banville’s The Sea and Richard B. Wright’s October” Anca-Raluca Communicating Disease pp309-327 [see Davies, Robertson, “Cunning Man”, this section].

Non-fiction

Best Canadian Essays 2013 edi Christopher Doda & Stephen Marche 200pp Tightrope (Barrie, ON) Pb 19.95.

Book Was There: Reading in Electronic Times Andrew Piper 200pp Univ of Chicago Press (Chicago) US $22.50 [includes bibliographical references, 2012].

Both Hands: A Life of Lorne Pierce of Ryerson Press Sandra Campbell illus 672pp McGill-Queen’s Univ Press (Montréal) Hb $49.95.

Conversations with a Dead Man: The Legacy of Duncan Campbell Scott Mark Abley 251pp Douglas & McIntyre (Madeira Park, BC) Hb $32.95 [includes bibliographical references].

The Dogs Are Eating Them Now: Our War in Afghanistan Graeme Smith 320pp Knopf Canada (Toronto): Knopf Canada Hb $32.

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Canadian Literature introd Anne Kaufman and Robert Thacker special issue Of Borders and Bioregions 218 pp 6-133.

Canadian Theatre Review ed introd Mary Blackstone and Moira Jean Day special issue The New Saskatchewan 154 pp3-94.

University of Toronto Quarterly ed introd Smaro Kamboureli special issue Writing the Foreign in Canadian Literature and Humanitarian Narratives 82(2) pp87-374.