Abstract
Introduction
For Canadian literary circles, the year 2014 was sad for the passing of several prominent authors. Mavis Gallant, who died on 18 February, was considered one of the world’s greatest short-story writers in English. An expatriate who spent most of her life and career in France, she created beautifully-crafted stories and novels that focus on the themes of exile and alienation. Her writing, which includes fourteen short story collections and two novels, was predominantly published in the United States until the 1970s when Canadian editions of her works appeared. Her books were recognized with many prestigious awards and honours, both in Canada and abroad. These include a Governor General’s Award in 1981 for her collection Home Truths: Selected Canadian Stories, membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1989, Companion of the Order of Canada in 1993, the Matt Cohen Prize in 2000, the Rea Award for the Short Story in 2002, a Lannan Literary Fellowship and a PEN/Nabokov Award in 2004, and the Prix Athanase-David from her native province of Quebec in 2006. Alistair MacLeod, who passed away on 20 April, was also internationally acclaimed for his fiction, which deeply identifies with the geography, Gaelic culture, and oral tradition of Cape Breton. The lyrical intensity and haunting, evocative qualities of language in his short story collections garnered high praise. His novel, No Great Mischief (1999), which traces a family’s life beginning in 18th-century Scotland and ending in 20th-century Nova Scotia, won both the 2001 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and Ontario’s Trillium Book Award in 1999. He received a Laanan Literary Award in 2003, the PEN/Malamud Award for Short Fiction in 2009 and, for his overall body of work, was made an officer Order of Canada in 2008. Farley Mowat, one of Canada’s most talented and controversial authors, died on 6 May. His popular works, which include nonfiction, memoirs and stories for children, were bestsellers that were translated into many languages. He was a passionate and outspoken environmentalist whose influential books often portray his interactions with the inhabitants and natural life of the Canadian north, as in People of the Deer (1952), and Never Cry Wolf (1962). Among the many honours he received was a Governor General’s Literary Award for Lost in the Barrens in 1956, the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour for The Boat Who Wouldn’t Float in 1970, and the Mark Twain Award in 1971. He was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1981.
The volume and quality of Canadian fiction that was published in 2014 was exceptional. In particular, the works of authors who were honoured with national awards covered an exceptionally broad range of historical themes and settings. The Back of the Turtle by Thomas King, an eminent author and long-time advocate for First Nations causes, won the 2014 Governor General’s Award for fiction. In the novel, a brilliant scientist is responsible for an environmental disaster that has destroyed his First Nations reserve and its population, including his family. Overcome by remorse when he examines the damage at the devastated site, he is saved from committing suicide when he rescues a drowning girl and soon finds redemption by rescuing other victims. The work was singled out as a masterpiece of brilliant characterization and storytelling that resonates with a deep knowledge of native myth. The award finalist Sweetland by Michael Crummey, another well-established author, also deals with environmental tragedy – that of the disappearing fish stock off Newfoundland’s Grand Banks and the resettlement of fishing communities who have lost their livelihood. The work’s portrayal of Gabe Sweetland, a stubborn opponent of the resettlement who fakes his own death to cling to his island home, has been praised as a mesmerizing story of survival and passion. Bill Gaston’s Juliet Was a Surprise, another short-listed work, presents stories of characters who view the world through shocking and darkly absurd perspectives. The collection was praised for its wit and keen insight into the peculiarities of various human perspectives on life. Claire Holden Rothman’s short-listed novel, My October, examines the long-term impact of Québec’s October Crisis on the family of Luc Lévesque, a separatist and celebrated author facing a midlife crisis. This compelling portrayal of a family torn apart by historical events was lauded for its insight and compassion. The finalist, The Opening Sky, by Joan Thomas, is another novel that explores a modern family’s confrontation with a tragedy from its past – the disappearance of four children from an artists’ retreat many years ago. Critics praised the wit and stunning observations in Thomas’ depiction of the complexities and strains of a modern family in crisis.
The Scotibank Giller Prize for fiction has also become a showcase for the best writing in the genre. This year’s winner Us Conductors, a debut work by Sean Michaels, portrays the life of Lev Sergeyevich Termen, the Russian inventor of the theremin, an ethereal musical instrument. The story is narrated in epistolary form through a love letter from Termen to his lover, Clara and follows the protagonist from the glitzy New York clubs of the 1930s to the harsh Soviet gulags. The prize jury heralded the graceful style, creativity, and lyrical qualities of the novel. The shortlisted The Betrayers, by David Bezmozgis, spans one day within the setting of the political upheaval of the Crimea where an ex-Soviet Israeli politician is forced to flee after betrayals made in his past return to darken his present life. The novel’s taut narrative structure and economic prose were highly lauded. Another finalist, Francis Itani’s Tell, explores the entwined lives of characters in an Ontario community who struggle to reconstitute their lives after the havoc created by the First World War. Critics singled out the author’s skilful use of language and expert choice of detail in her portrayal of the work’s characters and setting. The finalist The Girl Who Was Saturday Night, by Heather O’Neill, also uses a Canadian historical setting, the period of the 1995 political referendum in Quebec, as a backdrop for a coming-of-age story about two young girls in Montreal. Especially commended were the work’s brilliantly-drawn characterizations and sharp insights about the political and cultural climate of Quebec in the 1990s. In her shortlisted All My Puny Sorrows, Miriam Toews tackles the difficult issue of assisted suicide in a narrative about a concert pianist and her younger sister. The novel, which also won 2014 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, received high accolades for its sharp character portrayals and exceptional depth of ideas. The finalist The Ever after of Ashwin Rao by Padma Viswanathan explores the topics of grief and terrorism in a novel about a psychologist’s analysis of two suspects who are finally set to stand trial for the bombing of Air India Flight 182 that occurred twenty years earlier. Critics particularly commended the work’s complex plot as well as its compassionate and intelligent depiction of the immigrant experience.
The year’s award-winning poetry publications highlighted the talents of several young writers in the genre. The Governor General’s Award was won by Arleen Paré’s Lake of Two Mountains, her second work. The collection pays homage to a specific lake named Lac des Deux Montagnes and to its crucial relationship to the natural environment and the inhabitants of the area. The work was extensively praised for its marvellous and deeply authentic poetry that interweaves landscape and memory. The finalist Leaving Howe Island by Sadiqa De Meijer is a debut collection that presents musings on family, childhood and belonging. Her poetry was positively reviewed for its great eloquence and exceptional craftsmanship. The poems of Julie Joosten’s shortlisted Light Light are historic explorations of the history of science from Enlightenment natural history to the present age of global warming. The work encompasses a wide range of poetic forms – epigrammatic, experimental, narrative, and lyrical – and was lauded as an engaging and finely-tuned blend of history and the present. The shortlisted Night Vision by veteran poet Christopher Levenson probes the causes of human fears, hopes and restlessness through poems that focus on the urban settings of Vancouver and Calgary, as well as on deadly conflicts in Latin America, Europe and other parts of the world. The poetry in this eleventh collection of the poet, has been acclaimed as impeccably crafted and deeply human. Another finalist, the debut work Prologue for the Age of Consequence by Garth Martens, focuses on the grand-scale industrial project of oil drilling in the tar sands in Alberta. The collection, which explores both the project’s physical world and its workers through wide-ranging metaphors, has been singled out for its impressive epic sweep.
Janet Munro’s Blue Sonoma, which won the Griffin Trust Prize for Poetry, uses as its core focus her partner’s crossing into Alzheimer’s and evolves into an evocation of other forms of “crossings” through explorations such as dreamscapes, sutras and prayer poems. The Griffin jury heralded the poet’s haunting clarity, colloquial wit and acute descriptive powers in this collection. The anchoring structure of Shane Book’s shortlisted Congotronic is an apocryphal narrative grounded in the journey of the Middle Passage and an older mythic history from the West African epic of Sundiata. The collection’s poems delve into an array of sources and verbally mimic techniques of the cinematic and audio arts and were praised by the award jury as innovative and emotionally piercing. The other prize finalist, Russell Thornton’s The Hundred Lives, is a collection that explores archetypal themes of ritual, love and loss through poetry framed in the ancient worlds of classical Greece and the Bible as well as through intensely personal poems. The poetic expression in the work was singled out as haunting and beautifully articulated.
Jorda Tannahill’s collection of three plays, Age of Minority, which won the Governor General’s in drama, depicts the lives of three gay young people and their brave confrontations with violence and intolerance. Get Yourself Home Skyler James is based on the true story of young lesbian who defected from the army when she was ousted by fellow soldiers. Peter Fechter: 59 Minutes portrays young East Berliner’s last hour of life before he was shot while attempting to cross the Berlin Wall in 1962 with his companion. The third play, rihannaboi95, focuses on a Toronto teen whose world collapses when YouTube videos of him dancing to songs by his favourite pop heroine go viral. Tannhill’s work was widely acclaimed as compelling and thought provoking. The shortlisted The Secret Mask by the award-winning playwright Rick Chafe dramatizes the encounter between a middle-aged man and his estranged father who has suffered a stroke that has left him virtually speechless and with barely any memory, so that he cannot communicate with his resentful son. The semi-autobiographical play was universally praised for its great emotional power and wonderful humour. Another award finalist, Sean Dixon’s A God in Need of Help is set in 1606 and dramatizes the story of a papal inquisition of four men in Venice who are charged with smuggling a religious painting across the Alps to Prague. The focus of the interrogation is the men’s claim about a miraculous escape from Protestant Zealots who confront them during their journey. The play received very positive reviews for its solid storytelling and its compelling ideas about the transformative power of art. The finalist, That Elusive Spark by Janet Munsil, presents a dual narrative that connects two stories. One centres on Phineas Gage, a construction worker who undergoes a personality change after his brain is pierced by an iron rod during an explosion. The second story explores the tribulations of Helen Harlow, who is a young neuroscientist and the modern day descendant of the doctor who treated Gage. The romantic connection that links the stories and their protagonists was especially lauded as an inventive and insightful structural technique that illuminates the play’s ideas about change and new beginnings.
Several notable studies in literary criticism focused on the relationship between Canadian history and literature or culture. An excellent general work on the topic is Canadian Literature and Cultural Memory edited by Cynthia Sugars and Eleanor Ty. By exploring a wide representation of Canada’s literary diversity and literary treatments, the essays in this collection present various perspectives on the persistence of memory as a central concept and a constant preoccupation in Canadian literature and culture. More historically-specific studies of the connection between history, literature and culture that are tied to the period of the First World War in this year of its centenary are Neta Gordon’s Catching the Torch: Contemporary Canadian Literary Responses to World War I and The Great War in Post-Memory Literature and Film edited Martin Löschnigg and Marzena Sokołowska-Paryż. Numerous excellent critical analyses of early Canadian literature and writing appeared this year, such as Home Ground and Foreign Territory: Essays on Early Canadian Literature edited by Janice Fiamengo and Mary McDonald-Rissanen’s In the Interval of the Wave: Prince Edward Island Women’s Nineteenth-and-Early-Twentieth-Century Life Writing. The gap in research on issues of ethnicity and diversity in literature was addressed by such notable works as Critical Collaborations: Indigeneity, Diaspora, and Ecology in Canadian Literary Studies edited by Smaro Kamboureli and Christl Verduyn, Neal McLeod’s Indigenous Poetics in Canada, Larissa Lai’s Slanting I, Imagining We: Asian Canadian Literary Production in the 1980s and 1990s and Rick Monture’s We Share Our Matters: Two Centuries of Writing and Resistance at Six Nations of The Grand River.
Some excellent major studies on individual authors that appeared this year include Suparna Banerjee’s Science, Gender and History: The Fantastic in Mary Shelley and Margaret Atwood, B.W. Powe’s Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye: Apocalypse and Alchemy, Compulsive Acts: Essays, Interviews, Reflections on the Works of Sky Gilbert edited by David Bateman, The L.M. Montgomery Reader: Volume Two: A Critical Heritage edited by Benjamin Lefebvre, and M.G. Vassanji: Essays on His Work edited by Asma Sayed. In addition, two Canadian literary and research journals devoted special issues to eminent national poets; Canadian Poetry 70 was devoted to P.K. Page, and Capilano Review 3(24) to George Bowering.
In the genres of letters and autobiography several important works were published. We Go Far back in Time: The Letters of Earle Birney and Al Purdy, 1947–1984 edited by Nicholas Bradley is a significant body of correspondence that traces the changing relationship between the writers, each of whom was fiercely committed to the other’s work. Kathleen Winter’s Boundless: Tracing Land and Dream in a New Northwest Passage traces her journey across the Northwest Passage and its stories and ultimately evolves into a narration of her personal odyssey from the old world to the new. Alison Pick’s memoir, Between Gods, is a journey of self-discovery that leads her through the history of her family’s disappearance in the Holocaust and eventually to the reclamation of her history and identity as a Jew. In the field of non-fiction the Governor General’s award was won by Michael Harris’ The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We’ve Lost in a World of Constant Connection, a thought-provoking exploration of the impact that the digital era is having on modern life.
Two research aids that were published this year should prove most helpful to Canadian literary scholars and researchers: Carl Spadoni’s and Judith Skelton Grant’s A Bibliography of Robertson Davies, and Paul Ivar Hjartarson’s and Shirley Neuman’s The Thinking Heart: The Literary Archive of Wilfred Watson.
Bibliography
Canadian Book Review Annual online format Dundurn (Toronto) contact publisher for price: www.cbraonline.com.
Bibliographies Of Individual Writers
A Bibliography of Robertson Davies Carl Spadoni and Judith Skelton Grant 538pp Univ of Toronto Press (Toronto) Hb $185.
Research Aids
AMICUS Web Library and Archives Canada (Ottawa) www.amicus.collectionscanada.ca.
“The Governor General’s Literary Awards: English-Language Winners, 1936–2013” Andrew David Irvine Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada 52(1) pp35–161.
“The Governor General’s Literary Awards: An Introduction” Andrew David Irvine Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada 52(1) pp7–33.
The Thinking Heart: The Literary Archive of Wilfred Watson Paul Ivar Hjartarson and Shirley Neuman 160pp University of Alberta Libraries (Edmonton) Pb $34.95 [This exhibition catalogue traces the development of the experimental poet and dramatist through letters, notebooks, manuscripts and sketchbooks from the Univ of Alberta Archives].
Poetry
Anderson, Mia Light Takes 120pp Cormorant (Toronto) Pb $18.
Azarov, Vladimir Sochi Delirium 120pp Exile (Holstein, ON) Pb $16.95.
Babstock, Ken On Malice illus 94pp Coach House (Toronto) Pb $17.95.
Ball, Nelson Some Mornings 88pp Mansfield (Toronto) Pb $17.
Bartlett, Brian Ringing Here and There: A Nature Calendar 172pp Fitzhenry & Whiteside (Markham, ON) Pb $23.97.
Barton, John Polari ed Jeffery Donaldson 128pp Goose Lane (Fredericton, NB) Pb $19.95.
Beardsley, Doug Swimming with Turtles: Spirit of Place 96pp Thistledown (Saskatoon) Pb $17.95.
Birney, Earle The Essential Earle Birney select Jim Johnstone 64pp Porcupine’s Quill (Erin, ON) Pb $14.95.
Blodgett, E. D. As If 80pp Univ of Alberta Press (Edmonton) Pb $19.95.
Blomer, Yvonne As if a Raven 80pp Palimpsest (Windsor, ON) Pb $18.
Book, Shane Congotronic 104pp Anansi (Toronto) Pb $19.95.
Boughn, Michael City: Book One: Singular Assumptions 96pp BookThug (Toronto) Pb $18.
Bowling, Tim Circa Nineteen Hundred and Grief 80pp Gaspereau (Kentville, NS) Pb $19.95.
Budde, Robert Dreamland Theatre 96pp Caitlin (Halfmoon Bay, BC) Pb $16.95.
Calder, Alison In the Tiger Park ed Helen Humphreys 72pp Coteau (Regina) Pb $16.95.
Caldwell, Claire Invasive Species 80pp Wolsak and Wynn (Hamilton, ON) Pb $18.
Chandler, Catherine Glad and Sorry Seasons 80pp Biblioasis (Windsor, ON) $18.95.
Choyce, Lesley All Alone at the End of the World 90pp Ekstasis (Victoria, BC) Pb $23.95.
Clarke, George Elliott Traverse 88pp Exile (Holstein, ON) Pb $16.95.
Cooley, Dennis Abecedarium 160pp Univ of Alberta Press (Edmonton) Pb $18.95
Couture, Dani YAW 80pp Mansfield (Toronto) Pb $17.
Currin, Jen School 104pp Coach House (Toronto) Pb $17.95.
Czaga, Kayla For Your Safety Please Hold On 96pp Nightwood (Gibsons, BC) Pb $18.
Davey, Frank Poems Suitable to Current Material Conditions 120pp Mansfield (Toronto) Pb $17.
Del Bucchia, Dina Blind Items 112pp Insomniac (London, ON) Pb $16.95.
De Meijer, Sadiqa Leaving Howe Island 72pp Oolichan (Fernie, BC) Pb $17.95 [2013].
Dueck, Nathan He’l1 90pp Pedlar (Toronto) Pb $20.
Enns, Karen Ordinary Hours 88pp Brick (London, ON) Pb $20.
Farina, Laura Some Talk of Being Human 80pp Mansfield (Toronto) Pb $17.
Fitzpatrick, Ryan Fortified Castles 112pp Talonbooks (Vancouver) Pb $16.95.
Galloway, Pam Passing Stranger 112pp Inanna (Toronto) Pb $18.95.
Gasparini, Len Mirror Image ed Michael Mirolla 78pp Guernica (Toronto) Pb $15.
Gordon, Ariel Stowaways 80pp Palimpsest (Windsor, ON) Pb $18.95.
Gottfriedson, Garry Chaos inside Thunderstorms 126pp Ronsdale (Vancouver) Pb $15.95.
Greckol, Sonja Ruth Skein of Days 90pp Pedlar (Toronto) Pb $20.
Greene, Elizabeth Understories 132pp Inanna (Toronto) Pb $18.95.
Groulx, David A. In the Silhouette of Your Silences 102pp NON Canada (Vancouver) Pb $15.95.
Guriel, Jason Satisfying Clicking Sound 64pp Signal (Montreal) Pb $16.
Hamilton, Jane Eaton Love Will Burst into a Thousand Shapes 112pp Caitlin (Halfmoon Bay, BC) Pb $16.95.
Hamon, Tracy Red Curls 80pp Thistledown (Saskatoon) Pb $17.95.
Hancock, Brecken Broom Broom 72pp Coach House (Toronto) Pb $17.95.
Hargreaves, Kate Leak 112pp BookThug (Toronto) Pb $18.
Harris, Erina The Stag Head Spoke 120pp Buckrider (Hamilton, ON) Pb $18.
Henderson, Brian [Or] 144pp Talonbooks (Vancouver) Pb $18.95.
Hiebert, Luann What Lies Behind 120pp Turnstone (Winnipeg) Pb $17.
Hobsbawn-Smith, Dee Wildness Rushing In 96pp Hagios (Regina) Pb $17.95.
Howell, Stevie [Sharps] 88pp icehouse (Fredericton, NB) Pb $19.95.
John, Aisha Sasha Thou 176pp BookThug (Toronto) Pb $20.
Johnson, E. Pauline Pauline Johnson: Selected Poetry and Prose foreword Michael Gnarowski 240pp Voyageur Classics (Toronto) Pb $26.99 [2013].
Johnstone, Jim Dog Ear 78pp Véhicule (Montreal) Pb $16.
Jones, El Live from the Afrikan Resistance! 136pp Roseway (Winnipeg) Pb $18.95.
Joosten, Julie Light Light 120pp BookThug (Toronto) Pb $18 [2013].
Jorgenson, Jill Looking East over My Shoulder 96pp Cormorant (Toronto) Pb $18.
Kenyon, Michael Astatine Brick 96pp (London, ON) Pb $20.
Kolewe, R. Afterletters 64pp BookThug (Toronto) Pb $18.
Krause, Judith Homage to Happiness 88pp Hagios (Regina) Pb $17.95.
Lane, Patrick Washita 80pp Harbour (Madeira Park, BC) Pb $18.95.
Lang, Sarah For Tamara illus 96pp Anansi (Toronto) Pb $19.95.
Leman, Dilys The Winter Count 134pp McGill-Queen’s Univ Press (Montreal) Pb $16.95.
Lemay, Shawna Asking ed Robert Priest 108pp Seraphim (Woodstock, ON) Pb $17.95.
Leslie, Alex The Things I Heard about You 88pp Nightwood (Gibsons, BC) Pb $18.95.
Levenson, Christopher Night Vision 88pp Quattro (Toronto) Pb $18.
Lilley, Joanna The Fleece Era 96pp Brick (London, ON) Pb $20.
Lista, Michael The Scarborough 68pp Signal (Montréal) Pb $18.
MacEoin, Fionncara Not the First Thing I’ve Missed 80pp Thistledown (Saskatoon) $17.95.
MacFayden, Laurie Kissing Keeps Us Afloat 120pp Frontenac (Calgary) Pb $15.95.
Mancini, Donato Loitersack 128pp New Star (Vancouver) Pb $21.
Marlatt, Daphne Rivering: The Poetry of Daphne Marlatt select introd Susan Knutson afterword Daphne Marlatt 96p Wilfrid Laurier Univ Press (Waterloo, ON) Pb $18.99.
Martens, Garth Prologue for the Age of Consequence 104pp Anansi (Toronto) Pb $19.95.
Martin, Pam F. Variations on Blue 74pp Acorn (Charlottetown, PEI) Pb $17.95 [2013].
McCabe, Steve Nevermore Together: A Wordless Poem 272pp Porcupine’s Quill (Erin, ON) Pb $24.95 [graphic poem presented in 100 linocuts].
McCartney, Sharon Hard Ass 96pp Palimpsest (Windsor, ON) Pb $18 [2013].
McFadden, David Shouting Your Name Down a Well: Tankas and Haiku 160pp Mansfield (Toronto) Pb $20.
McGiffin, Emily Subduction Zone 90pp Pedlar (St. John’s, NL) Pb $20.
McKay, Don Angular Unconformity: Collected Poems, 1970–2014 584pp icehouse poetry (Fredericton, NB) Hb $45.
McLennan, Rob If Suppose We Are a Fragment 80pp BuschekBooks (Ottawa) Pb $17.95.
Meyer, Bruce The Seasons 128pp Porcupine’s Quill (Erin, ON) Pb $18.95.
—– Testing the Elements 112pp Exile (Holstein, ON) Pb $16.95.
Morgan, Cara-Lyn What Became My Grieving Ceremony 96pp Thistledown (Saskatoon) Pb $17.95.
Munro, Jane Blue Sonoma 79pp Brick (Toronto) Pb $20.
Murphy, A. Mary The Hungry Grass 88pp Inanna (Toronto) Pb $18.95.
Nash, Roger Upsidoon 90pp Scrivener (Sudbury, ON) Pb $18.
Nichol, B. P. Bp: Beginnings ed Stephen Cain 200pp BookThug (Toronto) Pb $23.
—– and Wayne Clifford Theseus: A Collaboration 104pp BookThug (Toronto) Pb $18.
Nicholson, Cecily From the Poplars 104pp Talonbooks (Vancouver) Pb $16.95.
Nickerson, Billeh Artificial Cherry ed Susan Safyan 86pp Arsenal Pulp (Vancouver) Pb $14.95.
Owen, Catherine Designated Mourner 96pp misFit (Toronto) Pb $18.95.
Paddon, Susan Two Tragedies in 429 Breaths 96pp Brick (London, ON) Pb $20.
Paré, Arleen Lake of Two Mountains 104pp Brick (London, ON) Pb $20.
Penny, Michael Outside, Inside 108pp McGill-Queen’s Univ Press (Montreal) Pb $16.95.
Powell, Kerry-Lee Inheritance 80pp Biblioasis (Windsor, ON) Pb $18.95.
Praamsma, Wanda A Thin Line Between 96pp BookThug (Toronto) Pb $18.
Prevost, Roland Singular Plurals 124pp Chaudiere (Ottawa) Pb $20.
Queyras, Sina MxT 91pp illus Coach House (Toronto) Pb $17.95.
Reimer, Nikki Downverse 128pp Talonbooks (Vancouver) Pb $16.95.
Rice, Bruce The Trouble with Beauty ed Barry Dempster 128pp Coteau (Regina) Pb $16.95.
Robertson, Lisa Cinema of the Present 112pp Coach House (Toronto) Pb $17.95.
Rogers, Janet Marie Peace in Duress 128pp Talonbooks (Vancouver) Pb $16.95.
Rosnau, Laisha Pluck 96pp Nightwood (Gibsons, BC) Pb $18.95.
Sciberras, Brenda Magpie Days 112pp Turnstone (Winnipeg) Pb $17.
Shidmehr, Nilofar Between Lives 136pp Oolichan (Fernie, BC) Pb $19.95.
Showler, Suzannah Failure to Thrive 96pp ECW (Toronto) Pb $18.95.
Simpson, Natalie Thrum 128pp Talonbooks (Vancouver) Pb $16.95.
Smith, Charles C. Travelogue of the Bereaved 112pp TSAR (Toronto) Pb $19.95.
Sol, Adam Complicity 112pp McClelland & Stewart (Toronto) Pb $18.95.
Souster, Raymond Come Rain, Come Shine: The Last Poems of Raymond Souster 308pp Contact Press (Toronto) Hb $30.
Spry, Mike Bourbon & Eventide 72pp Snare (Halifax, NS) Pb $14.95.
Stanley, George North of California St.: Selected Poems, 1975–1999 192pp New Star (Vancouver) Pb $21.
Sternberg, Ricardo Some Dance 90pp McGill-Queen’s Univ Press (Montreal) $16.95.
Stewart, Jeremy Hidden City 80pp Invisible (Halifax, NS) Pb $15.95.
Strang, Catriona Corked 96pp Talonbooks (Vancouver) Pb $16.95 [2013].
Terpstra, John This Orchard Sound 36pp Wolsak and Wynn (Hamilton, ON) Pb $10.
Thornton, Russell The Hundred Lives 104pp Quattro (Toronto) Pb $18.
Tucker, Diane L. Bonsai Love 88pp Harbour (Madeira Park, BC) Pb $18.95.
Turza, Anne-Marie The Quiet 79pp Anansi (Toronto) Pb $19.95.
Vermeersch, Paul Don’t Let It End like This Tell Them I Said Something 89pp ECW (Toronto) Pb $18.95.
Waddington, Miriam The Collected Poems of Miriam Waddington: A Critical Edition 2 vols ed Ruth Panofsky 1166pp Univ of Ottawa Press (Ottawa) Pb $44.95.
Watada, Terry The Game of 100 Ghosts 112pp TSAR (Toronto) Pb $18.95.
Wayman, Tom The Order in Which We Do Things: The Poetry of Tom Wayman select introd Owen Percy afterword Tom Wayman 112pp Wilfrid Laurier Univ Press (Waterloo, ON) Pb $18.99.
Webb, Phyllis Peacock Blue: The Collected Poems of Phyllis Webb ed John F. Hulcoop 512pp Talonbooks (Vancouver) Hb $45 [includes index].
Weiss, Adrienne There Are No Solid Gold Dancers Anymore 80pp Nightwood (Gibsons, BC) Pb $18.95.
Whiteman, Bruce Intimate Letters: The Invisible World Is in Decline. Book VII 160pp ECW (Toronto) Pb $18.95.
Wigmore, Gilian orient 96pp Brick (Toronto) Pb $20
Wilkinson, Anne The Essential Anne Wilkinson select Ingrid Ruthig 64pp Porcupine’s Quill (Erin, ON) Pb $14.95.
Wingate, Shoshanna Radio Weather 64pp Signal (Montréal) Pb $18.
Winger, Rob Old Hat 96pp Nightwood (Gibsons, BC) Pb $18.95.
Woo, Elaine Cycling with the Dragon 96pp Nightwood (Gibsons, BC) Pb $18.95.
Young, Deanna House Dreams 107pp Brick (Toronto) Pb $20.
Young, Patricia Summertime Swamp-Love Palimpsest 80pp (Windsor, ON) Pb $18.95.
Zeltserman, Ella Small Things Left Behind 128pp Univ of Alberta Press (Edmonton) Pb $19.95.
Zilm, Jennifer The Whole and Broken Yellows: Van Gogh Poems and Others 42pp Frog Hollow (Victoria, BC) Pb $18 [2013].
Zolf, Rachel Janey’s Arcadia 136pp Coach House (Toronto) Pb $17.95.
Zwicky, Jan Chamber Music: The Poetry of Jan Zwicky select introd Darren Bifford and Warren Heiti 102pp Wilfrid Laurier Univ Press (Waterloo, ON) Pb $18.99 [includes interview with Zwicky].
Drama
Banks, Catherine Bitter Rose and Three Storey, Ocean View 124pp Scirocco (Winnipeg, MB) Pb $17.95 [two plays].
Billon, Nicolas Butcher 104pp Coach House (Toronto) Pb $17.95 [includes On Creating a Language].
Black, Anthony When It Rains 72pp Scirocco (Winnipeg, MB) Pb $15.95.
Cavell, Richard Marinetti Dines With the High Command: A Manifesto and Five Aeropoems 122pp Guernica (Toronto) Pb $20 [includes afterword, Marinetti and the Invention of the Future].
Chafe, Rick The Secret Mask 124pp Playwrights Canada (Toronto) Pb $16.95 [2013].
—– Under Wraps: A Spoke Opera 128pp Playwrights Canada (Toronto) Pb $16.95. Chai,
Camyar, Guillermo Verdecchia, and Marcus Youssef Ali & Ali: The Deportation Hearings 96pp Talonbooks (Vancouver) Pb $16.95 [2013].
Craddock, Chris Public Speaking and Other Plays 166pp NeWest (Edmonton) Pb $19.95. [includes the monologues Public Speaking, Porn Star, and Moving Along].
Dixon, Sean A God in Need of Help 117pp Coach House (Toronto) Pb $17.95.
Fennario, David Motherhouse 96pp Talonbooks (Vancouver) Pb $17.95.
Foster, Norm On a First Name Basis 116pp Playwrights Canada (Toronto) Pb $16.95.
Gilbert, Sky St. Francis of Millbrook 128pp Playwrights Canada (Toronto) Pb $16.95.
Gray, Carolyn The Miser of Middlegate 96pp Scirocco (Winnipeg, MB) Pb $15.95.
Griffiths, Linda Maggie and Pierre & The Duchess 248pp Playwrights Canada (Toronto) Pb $18.95 [2013].
Johnson, Brooke Trudeau Stories 74pp Scirocco (Winnipeg, MB) Pb $15.95.
Kanagawa, Hiro The Patron Saint of Stanley Park Playwrights Canada (Toronto) Pb $16.95.
Labordé, Rosa Like Wolves 96pp Scirocco (Winnipeg, MB) Pb $15.95.
Lakra, Arun Sequence 112pp Playwrights Canada (Toronto) Pb $16.95.
Lazarus, John The Grandkid 112pp Playwrights Canada (Toronto) Pb $16.95.
MacIvor, Daniel This Is What Happens Next 96pp Playwrights Canada (Toronto) Pb $16.95.
MacLeod, Joan The Valley 128pp Talonbooks (Vancouver) Pb $16.95.
Mand, Jordi Between the Sheets 96pp Playwrights Canada (Toronto) Pb $16.95.
Moeller, Nicole An Almost Perfect Thing 112pp Playwrights Canada (Toronto) Pb $16.95.
Munsil, Janet That Elusive Spark 96pp Playwrights Canada (Toronto) Pb $16.95.
Murphy, Colleen Armstrong’s War 144pp Playwrights Canada (Toronto) Pb $16.95.
Poch-Goldin, Alex The Life of Jude 96pp Scirocco (Winnipeg, MB) Pb $15.95.
Rideout, George Michel and Ti-Jean 128pp Talonbooks (Vancouver) Pb $17.95.
Sinha, Pamela Mala Crash 54pp Scirocco (Winnipeg, MB) Pb $15.95.
Stubbs, Sally And Bella Sang with Us 96pp Scirocco (Winnipeg, MB) Pb $15.95.
Tannahill, Jordan Age of Minority: Three Solo Plays 160pp Playwrights Canada (Toronto) Pb $19.95 [includes Get Yourself Home Skyler James, Peter Fechter: 52 Minutes, and rihannaboi95 2013].
Taylor, Drew Hayden God and the Indian 96pp Talonbooks (Vancouver) Pb $16.95.
Thomson, Kristen Someone Else 56pp Playwrights Canada (Toronto) Pb $15.95. T
Thompson, Judith White Biting Dog & Other Plays 208pp Playwrights Canada (Toronto) Pb $18.95.
Wagner, Colleen Home Scirocco 98pp (Winnipeg, MB) Pb $15.95.
Yee, David Carried Away on the Crest of A Wave 112pp Playwrights Canada (Toronto) Pb $16.95.
Young, Jonathon and Kevin Kerr Tear the Curtain! with Kim Collier 160pp Talonbooks (Vancouver) Pb $18.95.
Youssef, Marcus and James Long Winners and Losers foreword Jenn Stephenson 96pp Talonbooks (Vancouver) Pb $16.95.
Fiction
Abdou, Angie Between 304pp Arsenal Pulp (Vancouver) Pb $18.95.
Adderson, Caroline Ellen in Pieces 336pp HarperCollins (Toronto) Pb $22.99.
Alexis, André Pastoral 168pp Coach House (Toronto) Pb $17.95.
Apostolides, Marianne Sophrosyne 176pp BookThug (Toronto) Pb $20.
Atwood, Margaret Stone Mattress: Nine Tales 288pp McClelland & Stewart (Toronto) Hb $29.95.
Andrews, William The Grand Change 192pp Acorn (Charlottetown, PEI) Pb $19.95 [2013].
Arnason, David There Can Never Be Enough 350pp Turnstone (Winnipeg, MB) Pb $21. stories].
Baillie, Martha The Search for Heinrich Schlögel 200pp Pedlar (St. John’s, NL) Pb $23.
Baker, Jacqueline The Broken Hours 320pp HarperAvenue (Toronto) Hb $26.99.
Basu, Arjun Waiting for the Man 296pp ECW (Toronto) Pb $24.95.
Battershill, Claire Circus 224pp McClelland & Stewart (Toronto) Pb $22 [stories].
Bechtel, Greg Boundary Problems 232pp Freehand (Calgary) Pb $19.95 [stories].
Bennett, Jonathan The Colonial Hotel 218pp Misfit Books (Toronto) Hb $22.95.
Bergen, David Leaving Tomorrow 288pp HarperCollins (Toronto) Hb $27.99.
Berry, Michelle Interference 282pp ECW (Toronto) Pb $18.95.
Bezmozgis, David The Betrayers 240pp HarperCollins (Toronto) Pb $29.99.
Blagrave, Mark Salt in the Wounds 288pp Cormorant (Toronto) Pb $21.95 [stories].
Bowering, George Mirror on the Floor 160pp Anvil (Vancouver) Pb $18 [first pub 1967].
Boyko, Craig Novelists 200pp Biblioasis (Windsor, ON) Pb $19.95.
Bozak, Nadia El Niño 302pp Anansi (Toronto) Pb $22.95.
Brand, Dionne Love Enough 192pp Knopf Canada (Toronto) Hb $26.99.
Brown, E. R. Almost Criminal ed Shannon Whibbs 285pp Dundurn (Toronto) Pb $17.99.
Busch, Frank Christopher Grey Eyes 272pp Roseway (Halifax, NS) Pb $20.95.
Cameron, Claire The Bear 221pp Doubleday Canada (Toronto) Pb $22.95.
Cayley, Kate How You Were Born 180pp Pedlar (St. John’s, NL) Pb $22 [short stories].
Cohoon, Cassie Deveaux Jeanne Dugas of Acadia 266pp Cape Breton Univ Press (Sydney, NS) Pb $14.95 [2013].
Coles, Megan Eating Habits of the Chronically Lonesome: Stories 180pp Killick (St. John’s, NL) Pb $19.95.
Compton, Wayde The Outer Harbour: Stories 208pp Arsenal Pulp (Vancouver) Pb $16.95.
Connor, Ralph The Foreigner: A Tale of Saskatchewan afterword Daniel Coleman 312pp Wilfrid Laurier Univ Press (Waterloo, ON) Pb $24.99 [first pub 1909].
Cooper, Catherine The Western Home 250pp Pedlar (Toronto) Pb $22 [short stories].
Crewe, Lesley Chloe Sparrow 288pp Vagrant (Halifax, NS) Pb $19.95.
Cronenberg, David Consumed 284pp Hamish Hamilton (Toronto) Hb $32.
Crummey, Michael Sweetland 322pp Doubleday Canada (Toronto) Hb $32.
DiRaddo, Christopher The Geography of Pluto 288pp Cormorant (Toronto) Pb $21.95.
Donoghue, Emma Frog Music 416pp HarperCollins (Toronto) Hb $29.99.
Dubé, Peter Beginning with the Mirror 178pp Lethe Press (Maple Shade, NJ) Pb $19.46 [stories].
Dumont, Dawn Rose’s Run 244pp Thistledown (Saskatoon) Pb $19.95.
Edizel, Loren Confessions: A Book of Tales 120pp Inanna (Toronto) Pb $22.95.
Fallis, Terry No Relation 416pp McClelland & Stewart (Toronto) Pb $22.95.
Farooqi, Musharraf Between Clay and Dust 240pp (Calgary) Pb $19.95 [first pub 2012].
Farrant, M. A. C. The World Afloat: Miniatures 112pp Talonbooks (Vancouver) Pb $12.95 [short stories].
Ferguson, Trevor River Burns 468pp Simon & Schuster Canada (Toronto) Hb $29.99.
Fiorentino, Jon Paul I’m Not Scared of You or Anything illus Maryanna Hardy 160pp Anvil (Vancouver) Pb $20.
Fischer Guy, Christine The Umbrella Mender 300pp Buckrider (Hamilton, ON) Pb $22.
Foran, Charles Planet Lolita 240pp HarperCollins (Toronto) Pb $19.99.
Foss, Krista Smoke River 352pp McClelland & Stewart (Toronto) Hb $29.95.
Foster, Cecil Independence 328pp HarperCollins (Toronto) Hb $29.99.
Friedman, Elyse The Answer to Everything 304pp Patrick Crean (Toronto) Hb $26.99.
Fu, Kim For Today I Am a Boy 256pp HarperCollins (Toronto) Pb $19.99.
Galchen, Rivka American Innovations 192pp HarperCollins (Toronto) Hb $26.99 [short stories].
Galloway, Steven The Confabulist 320pp Knopf Canada (Toronto) Hb $29.95.
Gaston, Bill Juliet Was a Surprise: Stories 216pp Hamish Hamilton (Toronto) Pb $22.
Gilmour, Jesse The Green Hotel 120pp Quattro (Toronto) Pb $18.
Gold, Nora Fields of Exile ed Cy Strom 424pp Dundurn (Toronto) Pb $24.99.
Goobie, Beth The First Principles of Dreaming 266pp Second Story (Toronto) Pb $19.95.
Goodwin, Daniel Sons and Fathers 242pp Linda Leith (Westmount, QC) Pb $18.95.
Goto, Hiromi Chorus of Mushrooms 250pp NeWest (Edmonton) Pb $19.95 [20th anniversary edition of the groundbreaking feminist novel].
Grubisic, Brett Josef This Location of Unknown Possibilities 342pp Now Or Never (Vancouver) Pb $19.95.
Gunning, Margaret The Glass Character 312pp Thistledown (Saskatoon) Pb $19.95.
Hahnel, Lori After You’ve Gone 244pp Thistledown (Saskatoon) Pb $19.95.
Hasiuk, Brenda Boy Lost in Wild: Stories 160pp Turnstone (Winnipeg) Pb $19.
Haugland, Bill After It Rains 224pp Véhicule (Montréal) Pb $18 [short stories; 2013].
Helwig, David Clyde 259pp Bunim and Bannigan (New York) Hb $18.95 [2013].
Henderson, Lee The Road Narrows as You Go 493pp Hamish Hamilton (Toronto) Hb $32.95.
Hodgins, Jack Cadillac Cathedral 220pp Ronsdale (Vancouver) Pb $18.95.
Hofmann, Karen Marie After Alice 312pp NeWest (Edmonton) Pb $19.95.
Homel, David The Fledglings 288pp Cormorant (Toronto) Pb $21.95.
Hunter, Aislinn The World before Us 432pp Doubleday Canada (Toronto) Hb $29.95.
Islam, Ghalib Fire in the Unnameable Country 464pp Hamish Hamilton (Toronto) Hb $30.
Itani, Frances Tell 336pp HarperCollins (Toronto) Pb $22.99.
Johnston, A. J. B. The Maze: 256pp Cape Breton Univ Press (Sydney, NS) Pb $19.95.
Johnston, Sean We Don’t Listen to Them 144pp Thistledown (Saskatoon) Pb $18.95 [short stories].
Joseph, Shane Paradise Revisited 230pp Blue Denim (Cobourg, ON) Pb $26.95 [short stories; 2013].
Karlinsky, Harry The Stonehenge Letters 256pp Coach House (Toronto) Pb $17.95.
Kaufman, Andrew The Tiny Wife 100pp Cormorant (Toronto) Pb $20. QQ SPRG
Kenyon, Michael Parallel Rivers 244pp Thistledown (Saskatoon) Pb $18.95 [short stories].
Kertes, Joseph The Afterlife of Stars 256pp Penguin (Toronto) Pb $22.95.
King, James Old Masters 200pp Cormorant (Toronto) Pb $21.
King, Thomas The Back of the Turtle 528pp HarperCollins (Toronto) Hb $24.99.
Kobayashi, Tamai Prairie Ostrich ed Bethany Gibson 200pp Goose Lane (Fredericton, NB) Pb $19.95.
Kuitenbrouwer, Kathryn All the Broken Things 352pp Random House (Toronto) Pb $24.
Kvern, Lee 7 Ways to Sunday 208pp Enfield & Wizenty (Winnipeg) Pb $19.95 [stories].
Lau, Doretta How Does a Single Blade of Grass Thank the Sun? 119pp Nightwood (Gibsons, BC) Pb $19.95 [stories].
Lavorato, Mark Serafim and Claire 416pp Anansi (Toronto) Pb $22.95.
Lee, Nancy The Age 288pp McClelland & Stewart (Toronto) Pb $22.95.
Leggett, Julia Gone South and Other Ways to Disappear: Short Stories 200pp Mother Tongue (Salt Spring Island, BC) Pb $19.95.
Letemendia, Claire The Licence of War 608pp McClelland & Stewart (Toronto) Pb $24.95.
Leung, Carrianne K. Y. The Wondrous Woo 232pp Inanna (Toronto) Pb $22.95.
Leventhal, Anna Sweet Affliction 232pp Invisible (Halifax, NS) Pb $19.95.
Little, Linda Grist 240pp Roseway (Halifax, NS) Pb $20.95.
MacDonald, Ann-Marie Adult Onset 400pp Knopf Canada (Toronto) Hb $32.
Macdonald, Frank Tinker & Blue 396pp Cape Breton Univ Press (Sydney, NS) Pb $19.95.
MacIntyre, Linden Punishment 432pp Random House Canada (Toronto) Hb $32.
Mandel, Emily St. John Station Eleven 333pp HarperAvenue (Toronto) Pb $21.99.
Maracle, Lee Celia’s Song Cormorant (Toronto) Pb $24.
Margoshes, Dave Wiseman’s Wager ed David Homel 392pp Coteau (Regina, SK) Pb $21.95.
McClung, Nellie L. Painted Fires afterword Cecily Devereux 334pp Wilfrid Laurier Univ Press (Waterloo, ON) Pb $24.95 [first pub 1925]
McCluskey, Elaine Hello, Sweetheart 200pp Enfield & Wizenty (Winnipeg) Pb $19.95 [short stories].
McCormack, Eric Cloud 432pp Penguin Canada (Toronto) Pb $24.
McDougall, Bruce Every Minute Is a Suicide: Stories 192pp Porcupine’s Quill (Erin, ON) Pb $22.95.
McGrath, Wendy North East 176pp NeWest (Edmonton) Pb $17.95.
Mckay, S. Nöel Stony Point 298pp Inanna (Toronto) Pb $22.95.
Miall, Laurence Blind Spot 250pp NeWest (Edmonton) Pb $19.95.
Michaels, Sean Us Conductors 368pp Random House (Toronto) Hb $26.
Miller, D. D. David Foster Wallace Ruined My Suicide and Other Stories 150pp Buckrider (Hamilton, ON) Pb $20.
Miller, K. D. All Saints 224pp Biblioasis (Windsor, ON) Pb $19.95 [stories].
Mills, Dana Someone, Somewhere 196pp Gaspereau (Kentville, NS) Pb $27.95 [stories; 2013].
Milner, Donna Somewhere In-Between 288pp Caitlin (Half Moon, BC) Pb $21.95.
Miscione, Christine Carafola 220pp Mansfield (Toronto) Pb $20.
Moore, Nathaniel G. Savage, 1986–2011 256pp Anvil (Vancouver, BC) Pb $20 [2013].
Mootoo, Shani Moving forward sideways like a Crab 336pp Doubleday Canada (Toronto) Hb $29.95.
Morgan-Cole, Trudy J. A Sudden Sun 384pp Breakwater (St. John’s, NL) Pb $19.95.
Morissette, Guillaume New Tab 212pp Véhicule (Montréal) Pb $19.95.
Moritsugu, Kim The Oakdale Dinner Club ed Shannon Whibbs 280pp Dundurn (Toronto) Pb $17.99.
Munro, Alice Family Furnishings: Selected Stories, 1995–2014 McClelland & Stewart Toronto) Hb $32.95.
Norman, Peter Emberton 256ppDouglas & McIntyre (Madeira Park, BC) Pb $19.95.
O’Neill, Heather The Girl Who Was Saturday Night 416pp HarperCollins (Toronto) Pb $22.99.
Page, Kathy Paradise and Elsewhere 160pp Biblioasis (Windsor, ON) Pb $18.95 [short stories].
Paul, Julie The Pull of the Moon ed Holley Rubinsky 184pp Brindle & Glass (Victoria, BC) Pb $19.95 [short stories; includes bibliographical references].
Payton, Brian The Wind Is Not a River 308pp HarperCollins (Toronto) Pb $18.99.
Peacock, Molly Alphabetique: 26 Characteristic Fictions illus Kara Kosaka 160pp McClelland & Stewart (Toronto) Hb $27.95.
Pflug, Ursula The Alphabet Stones 228pp Blue Denim (Cobourg, ON) Pb $26.95 [2013].
Piercy, Alisha Bunny and Shark 160pp BookThug (Toronto) Pb $20.
Pigeon, Marguerite Some Extremely Boring Drives: Stories 228pp NeWest (Edmonton) Pb $19.95.
Preston, Alison Blue Vengeance 240pp Signature (Winnipeg) Pb $16.95.
Pullinger, Kate Landing Gear 304pp Doubleday Canada (Toronto) Hb $29.95.
Rachman, Tom The Rise & Fall of Great Powers 400pp Doubleday Canada (Toronto) Hb $29.95.
Rader, Matt What I Want to Tell Goes like This 254pp Nightwood (Gibsons, BC) Pb $21.95 [stories].
Renzetti, Elizabeth Based on a True Story 272pp Anansi (Toronto) Pb $19.95.
Richards, David Adams Crimes against My Brother 400pp Doubleday Canada (Toronto) Hb $32.95.
Robertson, Eliza Wallflowers: Stories 295pp Hamish Hamilton (Toronto) Pb $22.
Robertson, Ray I Was There the Night He Died 224pp Biblioasis (Windsor, ON) Pb $19.95.
Rogers, Tim The Mystery of the SS Southern Cross Killick (St. John’s, NL) Pb $22.95.
Rooney, Chelsea Pedal 240pp Caitlin (Halfmoon Bay, BC) Pb $21.95.
Rosenbaum, Richard Revenge of the Grand Narrative 120pp Quattro (Toronto) Pb $18.
Rothman, Claire My October 352pp Penguin Canada (Toronto) Pb $22.95 [includes bibliographical references].
Rowe, William N. The Monster of Twenty Mile Pond 205pp Pennywell (St. John’s, NL) Pb $19.95.
Ruddock, Nicholas How Loveta Got Her Baby: Stories 192pp Breakwater (St. John’s, NL) Pb $19.95.
Rudolph, Katja Little Bastards in Springtime 416pp HarperCollins (Toronto) Hb $29.99.
Sampson, Mark Sad Peninsula 352pp Dundurn (Toronto) Pb $22.99.
Scarsbrook, Richard The Indifference League 272pp Dundurn (Toronto) Pb $19.99.
Schoemperlen, Diane By the Book: Stories and Pictures 232pp Biblioasis (Windsor) Hb $29.99.
Shepard, Aaron When Is a Man ed John Gould 288pp Brindle & Glass (Victoria, BC) Pb $19.95.
Shotwell, Vivien Vienna Nocturne 304pp Doubleday Canada (Toronto) Hb $29.95.
Silberstein, Avi Human Solutions 288pp Skyhorse (New York, NY) US $24.95.
Silcoff, Mireille Chez l’arabe 200pp Astoria (Toronto) Pb $19.95 [stories].
Simpson, Leanne Islands of Decolonial Love: Stories & Songs 148pp ARP Books (Winnipeg) Pb $14.95 [2013].
Skibsrud, Johanna Quartet for the End of Time 480pp Hamish Hamilton (Toronto) Hb $32.95.
Smith, Dennison The Eye of the Day 288pp HarperCollins (Toronto) Pb $19.99.
Snyder, Carrie Girl Runner 363pp Anansi (Toronto) Hb $29.95.
Springate, Michael The Beautiful West & the Beloved God 272pp Guernica (Toronto) Pb $25.
Stachniak, Eva Empress of the Night 400pp Doubleday Canada (Toronto) Pb $24.95.
Stenson, Fred Who by Fire 368pp Doubleday Canada (Toronto) Hb $32.95.
Stratton, Allan The Resurrection of Mary Mabel McTavish 352pp Dundurn (Toronto) Pb $17.99.
Sweatman, Margaret Mr. Jones ed Bethany Gibson 484pp Goose Lane (Fredericton, NB) Hb $32.95.
Syms, Shawn Nothing Looks Familiar: Stories 182pp Arsenal Pulp (Vancouver) Pb $15.95.
Szanto, George Whatever Lola Wants ed Leah Fowler 432pp Brindle & Glass (Victoria, BC) Pb $19.95.
Tefs, Wayne Barker 356pp Turnstone (Winnipeg) Pb $19.
Thomas, Audrey Local Customs 208pp Dundurn (Toronto) Pb $16.99.
Thomas, H. Nigel When the Bottom Falls Out: And Other Stories 159pp TSAR (Toronto) Pb $20.95.
Thomas, Joan The Opening Sky 368pp McClelland & Stewart (Toronto) Hb $29.95.
Thompson, Andrea Over Our Heads 272pp Inanna (Toronto) Pb $22.95.
Thompson, Margaret The Cuckoo’s Child ed Lea Fowler 256pp Brindle & Glass (Victoria, BC) Pb $19.95.
Toews, Miriam All My Puny Sorrows 336pp Knopf Canada (Toronto) Hb $29.95.
Tunney, Deborah-Anne View from the Lane & Other Stories 208pp Enfield & Wizenty (Winnipeg) Pb $19.95.
Viswanathan, Padma The Ever after of Ashwin Rao 384pp Random House (Toronto) Hb $29.95.
Wagamese, Richard Medicine Walk 245pp McClelland & Stewart (Toronto) Pb $17.95.
Wangersky, Russell Walt 304pp Anansi (Toronto) Pb $22.95.
Weir, Ian Will Starling ed Bethany Gibson 483pp Goose Lane (Fredericton, NB) Hb $32.95.
Wiebe, Rudy Come Back 288pp Knopf Canada (Toronto) Hb $26.95.
Wigmore, Gillian Grayling: A Novella 120pp Mother Tongue (Salt Spring Island, BC) Pb $16.95.
Winter, Kathleen The Freedom in American Songs: Stories 176pp Biblioasis (Windsor) Pb $19.95.
Woods, Jane The Walking Tanteek 448pp Goose Lane (Fredericton, NB) Pb $22.95.
Worrell P. J. Proudflesh 208pp Thistledown (Saskatoon) Pb $18.95 [short stories].
Wren, Jacob Polyamorous Love Song 192pp BookThug (Toronto) Pb $23.
Zentner, Alexi The Lobster Kings 352pp Knopf Canada (Toronto) Pb $24.
Translations
Arcan, Nelly Hysteric trans David Homel 192pp Anvil (Vancouver) Pb $20 [trans of French novel Folle].
Audet, Martine The Body Vagabond trans Antonio D’Alfonso 100pp Ekstasis (Victoria, BC) Pb $23.95 [trans of French poetry collection].
Blais, Marie-Claire Nothing for You Here, Young Man trans Nigel Spencer 232pp Arachnide (Toronto) Pb $22.95 [trans of French novel Le jeune homme sans avenir].
Bouchard, Michel Marc Christina, the Girl King trans Linda Gaboriau 96pp Talonbooks (Vancouver) Pb $16.95 [trans of play Christine, la reine-garçon].
Fortier, Dominique Wonder trans Sheila Fischman 304pp McClelland & Stewart (Toronto) Pb $24.95 [trans of French novel Les larmes de saint Laurent].
Huston, Nancy Black Dance 272pp Viking (Toronto) Hb $29.95 [trans of French novel Danse noire].
Monette, Madeleine Lashing Skies trans Phyllis Aronoff and Howard Scott 104pp Ekstasis (Victoria, BC) Pb $23.95 [trans of French poetry collection Ciel à outrances].
Nappaaluk, Mitiarjuk Sanaaq: An Inuit Novel trans Peter Frost 248pp Univ of Manitoba Press (Winnipeg) [trans from Inuktitut to French by Bernard Saladin d’Anglure] Pb $24.95.
ed Ouriou, Susan Languages of Our Land: Indigenous Poems and Stories from Quebec trans Christelle Morelli 180pp Banff Centre Press (Banff, AB) Pb $18.95 [trans of French collection Langues de notre terre : poèmes et récits autochtones du Québec; includes bibliographical references and index].
Savoie, Paul Nocturnes trans Jacques Lefebvre 88pp BookLand Markham, ON) Pb $16.95 [trans of French poetry collection Bleu bémol].
Smith Gagnon, Maude This Could Be Anywhere trans Howard Scott 96pp BookLand (Markham, ON) [trans of French poetry collection Un drap, une place] Pb $15.96.
Thúy, Kim Mãn trans Sheila Fischman 160pp Random House Canada (Toronto) Hb $25 [trans of French novel with same title; includes bibliographical references].
Tremblay, Larry The Obese Christ trans Sheila Fischman 144pp Talonbooks (Vancouver) Pb $14.95 [trans of French novel Le Christ obèse].
Tremblay, Michel Crossing the City trans Sheila Fischman 216pp Talonbooks (Vancouver) Pb $16.95 [trans of French novel Traversée de la ville].
Turcotte, Elise Guyana trans Rhonda Mullins 144pp Coach House (Toronto) Pb $17.95 [trans of French novel with same title].
Vachon, Hélène A Matter of Gravity trans Phyllis Aronoff and Howard Scott 288pp Talonbooks (Vancouver) Pb $16.95 [trans of French novel Attraction terrestre].
Letters and Autobiography
Lowther, Christine Born out of This 208pp Caitlin (Halfmoon Bay, BC) Pb $21.95.
McFarlane, Judy Writing with Grace: A Journey beyond Down 256pp Douglas & McIntyre (Madeira Park, BC) Pb $22.95 [includes bibliographical references].
Pick, Alison Between Gods illus 382pp Doubleday Canada (Toronto) Hb $29.95.
Vassanji, M. G. And Home Was Kariakoo: A Memoir of East Africa 400pp Doubleday Canada (Toronto) Hb $32.95.
We Go Far back in Time: The Letters of Earle Birney and Al Purdy, 1947–1984 ed Nicholas Bradley 480pp Harbour (Madeira Park, BC) Hb $39.95
Winter, Kathleen Boundless: Tracing Land and Dream in a New Northwest Passage illus 264pp Anansi (Toronto) Hb $29.95.
Anthologies
70 Canadian Poets ed Gary Geddes 5th ed 520pp Oxford Univ Press (Don Mills, ON) Pb $64.95.
The Arts Club Anthology: 50 Years of Canadian Theatre in Vancouver ed Rachel Ditor 416pp Playwrights Canada (Toronto) Pb $25.
The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2014 ed Molly Peacock and Sonnet L’Abbé 300pp Tightrope (Toronto) Pb $21.95.
Best Canadian Stories 14 ed John Metcalf 160pp Oberon (Ottawa) Hb $39.95
The Breakwater Book of Contemporary Newfoundland Plays Vol Two ed Denyse Lynde 312pp Breakwater (St. John’s, NL) Pb $19.95.
The Cuffer Anthology: A Collection of Short Stories from Newfoundland and Labrador. Volume VI ed Pam Frampton 180pp Killick (St. John’s, NL) Pb $16.95.
CVC: Book Four: Carter V. Cooper Short Fiction Anthology Series ed Gloria Vanderbilt 192pp Exile (Holstein, ON) Pb $19.95.
Fractured: Tales of the Canadian Post-Apocalypse Silvia Moreno-Garcia 336pp Exile (Holstein, ON) Pb $19.95.
The Griffin Poetry Prize 2014 Anthology ed Robert Bringhurst 128pp Anansi (Toronto) Pb $19.95.
Ground Rules: The Best of the Second Decade of Above/Ground Press 2003–2013 ed Rob McLennan introd Gil McElroy 248pp Chaudiere (Ottawa, ON) Pb $24.95 [poetry; 2013].
I Found It at the Movies: An Anthology of Film Poems ed Ruth Roach Pierson 224pp Guernica (Toronto) Pb $25.
The Journey Prize Stories 26: The Best of Canada’s New Writers select Stephen W. Beattie, Craig Davidson and Saleema Nawaz McClelland & Stewart (Toronto) Pb $17.95.
The New Wascana Anthology: Poetry, Short Fiction, and Critical Prose ed Medrie Purdham and Michael Trussler select annotations Richard G. Harvey 554pp Univ of Regina Press (Regina) Pb $49.95 [writing from Aboriginal and Prairie writers].
Once More, with Feeling: Five Affecting Plays ed Erin Hurley 496pp Playwrights Canada (Toronto) Pb $25 [includes bibliographical references].
Refractions: Solo ed Donna-Michelle St. Bernard and Yvette Nolan 181pp Playwrights Canada (Toronto) Pb $19.95 [dramatic monologues].
Salut King Kong: New English Writing from Quebec ed Elise Moser 164pp Véhicule (Montréal) Pb $18 [short stories].
Strange Bedfellows: An Anthology of Political Science Fiction ed Hayden Trenholm 272pp Bundoran (Ottawa) Pb $22.95.
Under the Mulberry Tree: Poems for & about Raymond Souster ed introd James Deahl 108pp Quattro (Toronto) Pb $20.
Why Poetry Sucks; Humorous Avant-Garde and Post-Avant English Canadian Poetry 224pp ed Jonathan Ball and Ryan Fitzpatrick Insomniac (London, ON) Pb $19.95.
Criticism
“Aboriginal Literatures in Canada: Multiculturalism and Fourth World Decolonization” Hartmut Lutz Indigenous Perspectives of North America pp51–76 [see
Bawaajimo: A Dialect of Dreams in Anishinaabe Language and Literature Margaret Noodin 212pp Michigan State Univ Press (East Lansing, MI) Pb $29.95.
Canadian Gothic: Literature, History, and the Spectre of Self-Invention Cynthia Sugars Cardiff 291pp Univ of Wales Press (Cardiff, Wales) US $150.
Canadian Literature and Cultural Memory ed Cynthia Sugars and Eleanor Ty 512pp Oxford Canada (Don Mills, ON) Hb $59.95.
Catching the Torch: Contemporary Canadian Literary Responses to World War I Neta Gordon 214pp Wilfrid Laurier Univ Press (Waterloo, ON) Hb $65.99.
“The Creation of the Stereotypical Indian within Native Canadian Culture” Krisztina Kodó Indigenous Perspectives pp281–294 [see this section].
Critical Collaborations: Indigeneity, Diaspora, and Ecology in Canadian Literary Studies ed introd Smaro Kamboureli and Christl Verduyn 286pp Wilfrid Laurier Univ Press (Waterloo, ON) Pb $42.99.
Detecting Canada: Essays on Canadian Crime Fiction, Television, and Film ed introd Jeannette Sloniowski and Marilyn Rose 317pp Wilfrid Laurier Univ Press (Waterloo) Pb $39.99.
Disunified Aesthetics: Situated Textuality, Performativity, Collaboration Lynette Hunter 326pp McGill-Queen’s Univ Press (Montreal) Pb $39.95.
Echo Soundings: Essays on Poetry and Poetics Jeffery Donaldson 200pp Palimpsest (Windsor, ON) Pb $18.95.
“Gender, Humour and Transgression in Canadian Women’s Theatre” Natalie Meisner and Donia Mounsef Prague Journal of English Studies 3(1) pp47–63.
The Great War in Post-Memory Literature and Film ed introd Martin Löschnigg and Marzena Sokołowska-Paryż 459pp de Gruyter (Berlin, Germany) US $119.70.
“Hemispheric Travel from Europe to las Américas: The Imaginary and the Novel in Québec and Canada” Marie Vautier International Journal of Canadian Studies 48 pp191–212.
Home Ground and Foreign Territory: Essays on Early Canadian Literature ed Janice Fiamengo 308pp Univ of Ottawa Press (Ottawa) Pb $39.95.
In the Interval of the Wave: Prince Edward Island Women’s Nineteenth-and-Early-Twentieth-Century Life Writing Mary McDonald-Rissanen McGill-Queen’s Univ Press (Montreal) Pb $34.95.
Indigenous Perspectives of North America: A Collection of Studies ed Enikő Sepsi, Judit Nagy, Vassányi Miklós, János Kenyeres, James W. Oberly and József Fülöp 527pp Cambridge Scholars (Newcastle upon Tyne, England) US $101.99.
Indigenous Poetics in Canada Neal McLeod 416pp Wilfrid Laurier Univ Press (Waterloo) Pb $36.99.
Landscapes of War and Memory: The Two World Wars in Canadian Literature and the Arts, 1977–2007 Sherrill Grace 636pp Univ of Alberta Press (Edmonton) Pb $49.95.
“‘Like Dying on a Stage’: Theatricality and Remembrance in Anglo-Canadian Drama on the First World War” Martin Löschnigg The Great War in Post-Memory Literature and Film pp153–169 [see this section].
Literature and the Glocal City: Reshaping the English Canadian Imaginary ed introd Ana María Fraile-Marcos 195ppRoutledge (New York) US $145.
The Mystery Shopping Cart: Essays on Poetry and Culture Anita Lahey 140pp Palimpsest (Windsor, ON) Pb $19.95 [author edited Arc Poetry Magazine, Canada’s most distinguished poetry journal; 2013].
Notes and Dispatches Rob Mclennan 318pp Insomniac (London, ON) Pb $19.95 [essays on contemporary fiction, poetry and non-fiction].
“Place and Memory: Rethinking the Literary Map of Canada” Sarah Wylie Krotz English Studies in Canada 40(2–3) pp133–154.
Personal Modernisms: Anarchist Networks and the Later Avant-Gardes James Gifford 320pp Univ of Alberta Press (Alberta) Pb $34.94.
Regenerations: Canadian Women’s Writing/ Régénérations: Ecriture des femmes au Canada / ed Marie Carrière & Patricia Demers 328pp Univ of Alberta Press (Edmonton) Pb $39.95 [includes bibliographical references and index].
Selected Essays on Canadian, Australian and New Zealand Literatures Igor Maver 133pp Cambridge Scholars (Newcastle upon Tyne, England) US $67.99.
“Shadows, Slicksters, and Soothsayers: Physicians in Canadian Poetry” Monica Kidd Canadian Literature 221 pp37–54.
Slanting I, Imagining We: Asian Canadian Literary Production in the 1980s and 1990s Larissa Lai 274pp Wilfrid Laurier Univ Press (Waterloo, ON) Pb $42.99.
“Supplementing the Supplement: Looking at The Function of Afterwords and Acknowledgements in Some Canadian Historical Novels” Jessica Langston English Studies in Canada 40(2–3) pp155–172.
Theatres of Affect ed Erin Hurley 296pp Playwrights Canada (Toronto) Pb $25 [essays on Canadian theatre].
Unarrested Archives: Case Studies in Twentieth-Century Canadian Women’s Authorship Linda M. Morra 256pp Univ of Toronto Press (Toronto) Pb $29.95.
We Share Our Matters: Two Centuries of Writing and Resistance at Six Nations of the Grand River Rick Monture 24pp Univ of Manitoba Press (Winnipeg, MB) Pb $27.95.
Acorn, Milton “‘To Forget in a Body’: Mosaical Consciousness and Materialist Avant-Gardism in Bill Bissett and Milton Acorn’s Unpublished I Want to Tell You Love” Eric Schmaltz Canadian Literature 222 pp96–112.
Alexie, Sherman “Games with Kitsch in the Works of Sherman Alexie and Thomas King” Monika Kocot pp99-112 in Redefining Kitsch and Camp in Literature and Culture ed introd Justyna Stępień 211pp Cambridge Scholars (Newcastle upon Tyne, England) US $81.99.
Armstrong, Gordon “Queer Embodied Absence: HIV/AIDS and the Creation of Cultural Memory in Gordon Armstrong’s Blue Dragons and Daniel MacIvor’s The Soldier Dreams” Dirk Gindt Journal of Canadian Studies 48(2) pp122–145.
Armstrong, Jeannette C. “Tracking the Land/Memory: Healing and Reterritorializations in Jeannette Armstrong’s Breath Tracks” Anna Mongibello Indigenous Perspectives of North America pp143-159 [see
Atwood, Margaret “Against Empathy: Levinas and Ethical Criticism in the 21st Century” Tammy Amiel-Houser and Adia Mendelson-Maoz Journal of Literary Theory 8(1) pp199–217.
—– “Approaching Antigone: A Critical and Performative Analysis of Sophocles’ Antigone, Spurring the Creation of a New Post-Dramatic Work, No More Prayers” Kendra Jones Interdisciplinary Humanities 31(3) pp6–17.
—– “The Cognitive Poetics of If” Craig Hamilton pp195–211 in Cognitive Grammar in Literature ed introd Chloe Harrison, Louise Nuttall, Peter Stockwell, and Wenjuan Yuan foreword Ronald W. Langacker, afterword Todd Oakley 255pp Benjamins (Amsterdam) Pb $54.
—– “Constructing a Text World for The Handmaid’s Tale Louise Nuttall Cognitive Grammar in Literature pp83-99 [see “Cognitive Poetics”,
—– “A Deviant Device: Diary Dissembling in Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace” Kym Brindle pp91-117 in Epistolary Encounters in Neo-Victorian Fiction: Diaries and Letters Kym Brindle 224pp Palgrave Macmillan (New York) US $95.
—– “Documenting Fascism in Three Guineas and The Handmaid’s Tale: An Examination of Woolf’s Textual Notes and Scrapbooks and Atwood’s ‘Historical Notes’” Vara Neverow pp183-189 in Virginia Woolf and the Common(wealth) Reader ed introd Helen Wussow and Mary Ann Gillies 250pp Clemson University Digital (Clemson, SC) Pb $33.92.
—– “‘The End or the End’: Ageing, Memory and Reliability in Margaret Atwood’s Fictional Autobiography, The Blind Assassin” Emma Filtness Entertext 11 pp42–57.
—– “Ethical Relations, Intertextuality, and the Im/Possibilities of an ‘Intersubjective Third’ In Margaret Atwood’s The Journals of Susanna Moodie” K. J. Verwaayen Contemporary Women’s Writing 8(3) pp300–318.
—– “Fictive Memoir and Girlhood Resistance in Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace”, Bethany Ober Mannon Critique 55(5) pp551–566.
—– “In ‘Paradice’? Test-Tube Evolution within the Natural Realm in Margaret Atwood’s Maddaddam Trilogy” Alessandra Boller Inklings 32 pp45–60.
—– “Language Stratification: A Critical Reading of Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad According to Mikhail Bakhtin’s Concept of ‘Heteroglossia’” Kifah (Moh’d Khair) Ali Al Omari and Hala Abdel Razzaq A. Jum’ah Theory and Practice in Language Studies 4(12) pp2555–2563.
—– “Margaret Atwood’s Transformed Circe” Veronica House pp77–104 in Medea’s Chorus: Myth and Women’s Poetry Since 1950 Veronica House Peter Lang (New York) US $81.95.
—– “National Identity, Narrative Universals, and Guilt: Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing” Patrick Colm Hogan pp134–149 in Cognition, Literature, and History ed introd Mark J. Wehrs ed epilogue Donald R. Routledge (New York) US $101.07.
—– “Neomedievalist Feminist Dystopia” Daniel Lukes Postmedieval 5(1) pp44–56.
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—– “A Paler Shade of Green: Suburban Nature in Margaret Atwood’s Cat’s Eye” Rob Ross Studies in Canadian Literature 39(1) pp98–120
—– “Postcard Poem, Ekphrastic Delusion: On Margaret Atwood’s Poem ‘Postcard’” Shahar Bram University of Toronto Quarterly 83(1) pp28–38.
—– “Psychological Oppression in Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing” Tanja Konrad Inklings 32 pp75–87.
—– “Quests and Questions of Consciousness: Margaret Atwood’s Post-Human Futures” Daphne M. Gracem pp197–214 in Beyond Bodies: Gender, Literature and the Enigma of Consciousness Daphne M. Gracem 249pp Rodopi (Amsterdam, Netherlands) Pb $74.20.
—– Science, Gender and History: The Fantastic in Mary Shelley and Margaret Atwood Suparna Banerjee 157pp Cambridge Scholars (Newcastle upon Tyne, England) US $71.99
—– “A Sense of an Ending-Risk, Catastrophe and Precarious Humanity in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake” Karin Höpker pp161–180 in The Anticipation of Catastrophe: Environmental Risk in North American Literature and Culture ed introd Sylvia Mayer and Alexa Weik von Mossner 227pp Universitätsverlag Winter (Heidelberg, Germany) US $45.
—– “‘To Make a History from This Kind of Material Is Not Easy’: The Narrative Construction of Cultural History in Contemporary Fiction” Miriam Wallraven Zeitschrift Für Anglistik Und Amerikanistik 62(2) pp131–148.
—– “‘Until It Actually Happens’: Margaret Atwood Speculates about the Future of the World” Albert Rau Inklings 32 pp15–28.
—– “‘What Are Those Things He Once Thought He Knew, and Where Have They Gone?’: The End of the Wor(l)d in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake (2003)” Monica Germana pp206-219 in Apocalyptic Discourse in Contemporary Culture: Post-Millennial Perspectives on the End of the World ed introd Monica Germana and Aris Mousoutzanis 244pp Routledge (New York) US $113.39.
—– “‘A Whole New Take on Indigenous’: Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake as Wild Animal Story” Lee Frew Studies in Canadian Literature 39(1) pp199–218.
—– “Woman Gave Names to All the Animals: Food, Fauna, and Anorexia in Margaret Atwood’s Dystopian Fiction” Annette Lapointe pp131–148 in Blast, Corrupt, Dismantle, Erase: Contemporary North American Dystopian Literature ed introd Brett Josef Grubisic, Gisèle M. Baxter and Tara Lee 480pp Wilfrid Laurier Univ Press (Waterloo, ON) Pb $48.99
—– “The Yin and Yang of Civilisation and Wilderness in Margaret Atwood’s ‘Ustopian’ Maddaddam Trilogy” Dieter Petzold Inklings 32 pp29–44.
Babstock, Ken “‘Honeyed Epoché’: Thinking and Singing in Ken Babstock’s Airstream Land Yacht” Ian J. MacRae International Journal of Canadian Studies 49 pp335–358.
Bissett, Bill see Acorn, Milton,
Bissoondath, Neil Devindra “In-Between World and Worlds Within: Reading Diasporic Return in Vassanji and Bissoondath” Robert Zacharias Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry 1(2) pp207–221.
Borson, Roo “Japanese Poetry and Nature in Borson’s Short Journey Upriver toward Ōishida” Shoshannah Ganz Clcweb: Comparative Literature and Culture 16(4) 8 pages.
Boyden, Joseph “Joseph Boyden’s Three Day Road: Transcultural (Post-)Memory and Identity in Canadian World War I Fiction” Hanna Teichler The Great War in Post-Memory Literature and Film pp239–253 [see
Brandm Dionne “Roughing It in Bermuda: Mary Prince, Susanna Strickland Moodie, Dionne Brand, and the Black Diaspora” Andrea Medovarski Canadian Literature 220 pp94–114.
Brundage, John Herbert “The Queen’s Cell: Fortune and Men’s Eyes and the New Prison Drama” Theatre Survey 55(2) pp165–184.
Butala, Sharon “Deep Mapping Lived Space: ‘Layers of Presence’ in Julene Bair’s One Degree West, Sharon Butala’s Wild Stone Heart, and Linda Hasselstrom’s Feels like Far” Susan Naramore Maher pp138–168 in Deep Map Country: Literary Cartography of The Great Plains Susan Naramore Maher 228pp Univ of Nebraska Press (Lincoln, NE) US $45.
Campbell, Maria “Cultural Hybridity in Twentieth Century Métis Autobiographies: Maria Campbell’s Halfbreed and Beatrice Culleton’s In Search of April Raintree” Eszter Szenczi Indigenous Perspectives of North America pp170–177 [see
Campbell, Wilfred “Re-Presenting Mordred: Three Plays of 1895” Pamela M. Yee Arthuriana 24(4) pp3–32.
Carr, Emily “Indians and Their Art: Emily Carr’s Imagery in Painting and in Writing” Katalin Kürtösi Indigenous Perspectives of North America pp178–188 [see
Carson, Anne “Estranged Pain: Anne Carson’s Red Doc>” Roy Scranton Contemporary Literature 55(1) pp202–214.
—– “‘Metaphors of War’: Desire, Danger, and Ambivalence in Anne Carson’s Poetic Form” Maya Linden” Women’s Studies 43(2) pp230–245.
Clarke, George Elliott “Contesting Clarke: Towards a De-Racialized African-Canadian Literature” Desi Valentine ARIEL 45(4) pp111–132.
—– “The Transcultural Intertextuality of George Elliott Clarke’s African Canadianité: (African) American Models Shaping George & Rue” Ana María Fraile-Marcos African American Review 47(1) pp113–128.
Cohen, Leonard Leonard Cohen on Leonard Cohen: Interviews and Encounters ed preface Jeff Burger foreword Suzanne Vega 604pp Chicago Review (Chicago, IL) Pb $19.95.
—– “Mad Translation in Leonard Cohen’s Beautiful Losers and Douglas Glover’s Elle” Robert David Stacey English Studies in Canada 40(2–3) pp173–197.
Compton, Wayde “The Black Atlantic Meets the Black Pacific: Multimodality in Kamau Brathwaite and Wayde Compton” Heather Smyth Callaloo 37(2) pp389–403.
Connelly, Karen “’What Is There to Say?’: Witnessing and Anxiety in Karen Connelly’s Burmese Trilogy” Hannah McGregor. Canadian Literature 222 pp13–29.
Coupland, Douglas “Dystopia Now: Examining the Rach(a)els in Automaton Biographies and Player One” Kit Dobson Blast, Corrupt, Dismantle, Erase pp393–408 [see Atwood, Margaret, “Woman Gave Names”,
—– see Atwood, Margaret, “Ordinary Catastrophes”,
—– “The Sublime Simulacrum: Vancouver in Douglas Coupland’s Geography of Apocalypse” Robert McGill Blast, Corrupt, Dismantle, Erase pp275–290 [see Atwood, Margaret, “Woman Gave Names”,
—– “‘You Are Turning into a Hive Mind’: Storytelling, Ecological Thought, and the Problem of Form in Generation A” Jenny Kerber Studies in Canadian Literature 39(1) pp317–338.
Currie, Sheldon “Slow Violence and Dirty Mourning” Cheryl Lousley English Studies in Canada 40(2–3) pp31–36.
De la Roche, Mazo “Home as Middle Ground in Adaptations of Anne of Green Gables and Jalna” Wendy Roy International Journal of Canadian Studies 48 pp9–31.
deWitt, Patrick “The Sisters Brothers Pack Heat: Or How the Sisters Fared in the West” Vanja Polić pp128–146 in Facing the Crises: Anglophone Literature in the Postmodern World ed introd Ljubica Matek and Jasna Poljak Rehlicki 204pp Cambridge Scholars (Newcastle upon Tyne, England) US $75.99.
Dudek, Louis “An ‘Architecture of Contradictions’: Continuation and the Late Meta-Poetry of Louis Dudek” Graham H. Jensen Canadian Poetry 74 pp30–59.
Duncan, Sara Jeannette “An Adventure in Stageland: Sara Jeannette Duncan, Imperial Burlesque, and the Performance of White Femininity in A Daughter of To-Day” Cecily Devereux Nineteenth-Century Contexts 36(1) pp35–51.
—– “Sara Jeannette Duncan a Daughter of Today” Mandy Treagus pp109–172 in Empire Girls: The Colonial Heroine Comes of Age 271pp Univ of Adelaide Press (Adelaide, Australia).
—– “The Woman Artist and Narrative Ends in Late-Victorian Writing” Mandy Treagus pp201-215 in Changing the Victorian Subject ed introd Maggie Tonkin, Mandy Treagus, Madeleine Seys and Sharon Crozier-De Rosa 281pp Univ of Adelaide Press (Adelaide, Australia).
Eaton, Winnifred “Detecting Winnifred Eaton” Jinny Huh MELUS 39(1) pp82–105.
Edugyan, Esi “Subverting the German Volk: Racial and Musical Impurity in Esi Edugyan’s Half-Blood Blues” Molly Littlewood McKibbin Callaloo 37(2) pp413–431.
Engel, Marian Barrett, “’Animal Tracks in the Margin’: Tracing the Absent Referent in Marian Engel’s Bear and J. M. Coetzee’s The Lives of Animals” Paul Barrett ARIEL 45(3) pp123–149.
Findley, Timothy “Remembering the Wars” Sherrill Grace The Great War in Post-Memory Literature and Film pp219–237 [see
Frye, Northrop “Frye and Hegel” Robert D. Denham University of Toronto Quarterly 83 (4) pp780–802.
—– “In Praise of the Garrison Mentality: Why Fear and Retreat May Be Useful Responses in an Era of Climate Change” Sherrie Malisch Studies in Canadian Literature 39(1) pp177–198.
—– Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye: Apocalypse and Alchemy B.W. Powe 368pp Univ of Toronto Press (Toronto) Pb $32.95.
—– “A Word Not Our Own: Northrop Frye and Karl Barth on Revelation and Imagination” Brett David Potter Literature & Theology 28(4) pp438-456.
Gibson, Melissa James “‘Go Back to Your Loom Dad’: Weaving Nostos in the Twenty-First Century” Corinne Pache pp44–63 in Odyssean Identities in Modern Cultures: The Journey Home ed introd Hunter Gardner and Sheila Murnaghan 337pp Ohio State Univ Press (Columbus, OH) US $81.99.
Gilbert, Sky Compulsive Acts: Essays, Interviews, Reflections on the Works of Sky Gilbert ed David Bateman 300pp Guernica (Toronto) $25.
Glover, Douglas “Cartographic Dissonance: Between Geographies in Douglas Glover’s Elle” Rachel Bryant Canadian Literature 220 pp116-130.
—– see Cohen, Leonard,
Goldsmith, Oliver “‘Having Cleared and Embellished the Earth’: Agricultural Science and Poetic Tradition in Oliver Goldsmith’s The Rising Village Mason” Travis V. Mason Studies in Canadian Literature 39(1) pp21–39.
Gowdy, Barbara “A Feminist Carnivalesque Ecocriticism: The Grotesque Environments of Barbara Gowdy’s Domestic Fictions” Cheryl Lousley Studies in Canadian Literature 39(1) pp121–142.
Hage, Rawi “Ghosts, Guests, Hosts: Rethinking ‘Illegal’ Migration and Hospitality through Arab Diasporic Literature Lisa Marchi Comparative Literature Studies 51(4) pp603–626.
—– “Undermining the Christian City in Rawi Hage’s De Niro’s Game” Jumana Bayeh pp69–96 in The Literature of the Lebanese Diaspora: Representations of Place and National Identity Jumana Bayeh 288pp Tauris (London) US $99.
Hale, Katherine “Island Ecology and Early Canadian Women Writers” Wanda Campbell Studies in Canadian Literature 39(1) pp40–56.
Harrison, Susie Frances, see Hale, Katherine,
Heti, Sheila “Notation after the ‘Reality Effect’: Remaking Reference with Roland Barthes and Sheila Heti” Rachel Sagner Buurma and Laura Heffernan Representations 125 pp80–102.
Hill, Lawrence “‘The Book of Negroes’ Illustrated Edition: Circulating African-Canadian History through the Middlebrow” Gillian Roberts International Journal of Canadian Studies 48 pp53–66.
—– “Port and Plantation Jews in Contemporary Slavery Fiction of the Americas” Sarah Phillips Casteel Callaloo 37(1) pp112–129.
Hopkinson, Nalo “Brown Girl in the Ring as Urban Policy” Sharon DeGraw Blast, Corrupt, Dismantle, Erase pp193–215 [see Atwood, Margaret, “Woman Gave Names”,
—– “Dubwise into the Future: Versioning Modernity in Nalo Hopkinson” Leif Sorensen African American Review 47(2–3) pp267–283.
Huggan, Isabel “’The Culpability of Innocence’: The Encounter of Canadian Women and Africa in the Short Stories of Isabel Huggan” Allan Weiss pp491-503 in Pluri-Culture et écrits migratoires/Pluri-Culture and Migrant Writings ed introd Elizabeth Sabiston ed Robert Drummond 559pp Laurentian University: Human Sciences Monograph Series 17 (Sudbury, ON).
Humphreys, Helen W. “Misfits in the Breach: Between Ecology and Economy in Helen Humphreys’s Wild Dogs” Jessica L. Carey Studies in Canadian Literature 39(1) pp298–316
Johnston, Basil “Zhaabwii′endam: Conscious Survival in the Writing of Basil Johnston” Margare Noodin Bawaajimo pp111–145 [see
Jones, Kendra, see Atwood, Margaret “Approaching Antigone”,
Kaslik, Ibi “‘This Hunger Is DNA You Cannot Undo”: Anorexia and Economically Oriented Subjects in Ibi Kaslik’s Skinny” Cara Fabre English Studies in Canada 40(2–3) pp83–107.
King, Thomas see Alexie, Sherman,
—– “In-Between Western and Indigeneous [Indigenous]: Thomas King’s The Truth about Stories” Éva Zsizsmann Indigenous Perspectives of North America pp160–169 [see
—– Narrating North American Borderlands: Thomas King, Howard F. Mosher, and Jim Lynch Evelyn P. Mayer 227pp Peter Lang (Frankfurt, Germany) US $64.95.
—– “Thomas King’s National Literary Celebrity and the Cultural Ambassadorship of a Native Canadian Writer” Roshaya Rodness Canadian Literature 220 pp55–72.
Kwa, Lydia “Tactical Objectivism: Recognizing the Object within the Subjective Logic of Neoliberalism in the Fiction of Tash Aw and Lydia Kwa” Weihsin Gui Lit 25(4) 291–311.
Lai, Larissa see Coupland, Douglas, “Dystopia Now”,
—– “Logical Gaps and Capitalism’s Seduction in Larissa Lai’s Salt Fish Girl” Sharlee Reimer Blast, Corrupt, Dismantle, Erase pp61–71 [see Atwood, Margaret, “Woman Gave Names”,
—– “Monstrous Politics: Epistemological Empowerment, Natural Science, and New Territories of Empire in Larissa Lai’s Salt Fish Girl” Susanne Wegener pp203–277 in Restless Subjects in Rigid Systems: Risk and Speculation in Millennial Fictions of the North American Pacific Rim Susanne Wegener 311pp Transcript-Verlag (Bielefeld, Germany) Pb $50.
—– “Reproduction, Reincarnation, and Human Cloning: Literary and Racial Forms in Larissa Lai’s Salt Fish Girl” Hee-Jung Serenity Joo Critique 55(1z) pp46-59.
Lane, Patrick “‘The Poem of You Will Never Be Written’: Memoir and the Contradictions of Elegiac Form in Patrick Lane’s There Is a Season” Sarah de Jong Carson Canadian Literature 22 pp193–107.
—– “‘There Is Another Story, There Always Is …’: Red Dog Red Dog and the Okanagan” George Grinnell English Studies in Canada 40(2–3) pp109–131.
Lansens, Lori “Uncomfortable Connections? Conjoined Sisterhood in Contemporary Women’s Writing” Helen Davies Contemporary Women’s Writing 8(3) pp409–427.
Laurence, Margaret “A Flight of Her Own: Rumaniations and Struggles in Margaret Laurence’s The Stone Angel” Shilpa Bhat New Academia 3(2) pp1–5.
Leacock, Stephen “‘Mariposa Moves On’: Leacock’s Darkening ‘Sequel’ To Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town” Nicholas Milne Canadian Literature 222 pp70–83.
Lill, Wendy, see Currie, Sheldon,
Loring, Kevin “Forging Native Idioms: Canadian and Australasian Performances of Indigeneity in an Age of Globalization” Marc Maufort pp703–715 in Figuren des Globalen: Weltbezug und Welterzeugung in Literatur, Kunst und Medien ed introd Christian Moser and Linda Simonis Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 743pp (Göttingen, Germany) US $104.
MacIvor, Daniel, see Armstrong, Gordon
MacLeod, Alistair “Clans and Clashes: Heritage and Authenticity in Alistair Macleod’s No Great Mischief” André Dodeman Ranam: Recherches Anglaises et Nord-Américaines 47 pp219.
Maracle, Lee “Intersections of Diaspora and Indigeneity: The Standoff at Kahnesatake in Lee Maracle’s Sundogs And Tessa Mcwatt’s Out of My Skin“ Petra Fachinger Canadian Literature 220 pp74–91.
Martel, Yann “Multilingual Novels as Transnational Literature: Yann Martel’s Self” Oana Sabo ARIEL 45(4) pp89–110.
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McLuhan, Marshall see Frye, Northrop, Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye,
—– McLuhan’s Global Village Today: Transatlantic Perspectives ed introd Carmen Birkle, Angela Krewani and Martin Kuester 242pp Pickering & Chatto (London) Hb $189.24.
McWatt, Tessa, see Maracle, Lee,
Michaels, Anne “Between Past and Future: Temporal Thresholds in Narrative Texts” Heilna du Plooy Journal of Literary Studies 30(0 pp1–24.
—– “Inheriting Trauma: Family Bonds and Memory Ties in Anne Michaels’s Fugitive Pieces” Christa Schönfelder pp241-278 in Wounds and Words: Childhood and Family Trauma in Romantic and Postmodern Fiction Christa Schönfelder 346pp Transcript-Verlag (Bielefeld, Germany) Pb $60.
—– “A Poetics of Testimony and Trauma Healing in Anne Michaels’s Fugitive Pieces” Mei-yu Tsai Shofar 32(3) pp50–71.
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Mistry, Rohinton “Boundary-Marking in the Diaspora; An Analysis of Women Characters in Rohinton Mistry’s Family Matters” Uma Jayaraman pp253–270 in Tracing the New Indian Diaspora ed introd Om Prakash Dwivedi 303pp Rodopi (Amsterdam) US $85.98.
—– “Somatic Effects of Migration: R. Mistry and V. S. Naipaul” Alejandra Moreno pp38–49 in A Rich Field Full of Pleasant Surprises: Essays on Contemporary Literature in Honour of Professor Socorro Suárez Lafuente ed José Francisco Fernández and Alejandra Moreno Álvarez preface Isabel Carrera Suárez 177pp Cambridge Scholars (Newcastle upon Tyne, England) US $67.99.
Montgomery, L. M., see De la Roche, Mazo,
—– The L.M. Montgomery Reader: Volume Two: A Critical Heritage ed Benjamin Lefebvre 464pp Univ of Toronto Press (Toronto) Hb $55.
Moodie, Susanna, see Brand, Dionne,
Moore, Brian As Mirrors Are Lonely: A Lacanian Reading on the Modern Irish Novel Peter Guy 230pp Cambridge Scholars (Newcastle upon Tyne, England) US $81.99
Moore, Lisa Lynne “Different Spheres: Clashing Realities and the Transformative Reprising of ‘Women’s Work’ in Lisa Moore’s February” Alaa Alghamdi Pacific Coast Philology 49(1) pp41–57.
Mootoo, Shani “Communities That Heal: Reading Sexual Healing: Edwidge Danticat, Opal Palmer Adisa, Erna Brodber, and Shani Mootoo” Elina Valovirta pp115–142 in Sexual Feelings: Reading Anglophone Caribbean Women’s Writing through Affect Elina Valovirta 217pp Rodopi (Amsterdam, Netherlands) Pb $64.
—– “Masculinities out of Line: Navigating Queerness and Diasporic Identity in Shyam Selvadurai’s Funny Boy and Shani Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms at Night” Christine Vogt-William pp323–344 in Diasporas, Cultures of Mobilities, ‘Race’, I: Diasporas and Cultures of Migrations ed introd Judith Misrahi-Barak and Claudine Raynaud 376pp PU de la Méditerranée (Montpellier, France).
—– “Shadow(ing) Men – Visions of Caring Masculinities: Erna Brodber, Opal Palmer Adisa, and Shani Mootoo” Elina Valovirta Sexual Feelings pp143–162 [see “Communities That Heal”,
Moses, Daniel David “From Remote Reserves to the Global Indian Village: Daniel David Moses’s Kyotopolis as Postmodern Native Canadian Drama” Martin Kuester Indigenous Perspectives of North America pp102–110 [see
Mouré, Erin “Listening for Lost Creeks: Recollecting Absence Via Alberto Caeiro and Eirin Moure” Isabel A. Moore University of Toronto Quarterly 83(3) pp705–722.
Munro, Alice “’Deep Deep into the River of Her Mind’: ‘Meneseteung’ and the Archival Hysteric” Katrine Raymond English Studies in Canada 40(1) 95–122.
—– “Loss and Longing in Alice Munro’s ‘Queenie’” Isla Duncan British Journal of Canadian Studies 27(1) pp21–36.
—– “Reading the Spaces of Age in Alice Munro’s ‘The Bear Came over the Mountain’” Sara Jamieson Mosaic 47(3) pp1–17.
—– “Regional Voices and Cultural Translation: The Example of Alice Munro” Marie-Anne Hansen-Pauly pp191–210 in East Meets West ed J. U. Jacobs and J. Derrick McClure introd foreword Reiko Aiura 214pp Cambridge Scholars (Newcastle upon Tyne) US $64.49.
—– “To Be Continued: The Story of Short Story Theory and Other Narrative Theory” Sarah Copland Narrative 22(1) pp132–149.
Murphy, Michael “The Romance of the Blazing World: Looking Back from CanLit to SF” Owen Percy Blast, Corrupt, Dismantle, Erase pp409–425 [see Atwood, Margaret, “Woman Gave Names”,
Naipaul, V. S. see Mistry,Rohinton,
Nakada, Mark “English before Engrish: Asian American Poetry’s Unruly Tongue” Tara Fickle Comparative Literature Studies 51(1) pp78-105.
Nichol, b. p. “Some Notes on bpNichol, (Captain) Poetry, and Comics” Paolo Javier pp178–187 in Reading the Difficulties: Dialogues with Contemporary American Innovative Poetry ed introd Thomas Fink and Judith Halden-Sullivan 229pp Univ of Alabama Press (Tuscaloosa, AL) Pb $34.95.
Ondaatje, Michael “Becoming Pluricultural in Ondaatje’s Oronsay” Lesley Higgins and Marie-Christine Pluri-Culture pp383–394 [see Huggan, Isabel, “Culpability”,
—– “From Sexual Love to Peace: Endless Care and Respect for Strangers in Michael Ondaatje’s Secular Love” Shou-Nan Hsu College Literature 41(4) pp111–128.
—– “‘More Like Odysseus’: Playing House in Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient’” Carol Dougherty pp3–18 in Travel, Discovery, Transformation ed introd Gabriel R. Ricci 350pp Transaction (New Brunswick) Pb $39.95.
—– “Professional Intimacies: Human Rights and Specialized Bodies in Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost” David Babcock Cultural Critique 87 pp60–83.
—– “Reclaiming the Past: Michael Ondaatje and the Body of History” Christopher McVey Journal of Modern Literature 37(2) pp141–160.
—– “Rites of Passage: Moving Hearts and Transforming Memories in Michael Ondaatje’s The Cat’s Table” Laura Savu Walker ARIEL 45(1–2) pp35–57.
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Ostenso, Martha “Martha Ostenso, Periodical Culture, and the Middlebrow” Hannah McGregor and Michelle Smith International Journal of Canadian Studies 48 pp67–83.
Page, P. K. “Autopoiesis in P. K. Page’s ‘Arras’: the Peacock Image as a Vision Machine” Min-Hsiou Hung Tamkang Review 44(2) pp123–145.
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—– “Editing Brazil and Mexico: Light and Shadow, Strands and Gaps in P. K. Page’s Mid-Life Writing” Suzanne Bailey and Margaret Steffler Canadian Poetry 75 pp83–101.
—– “Editing Silence: P. K. Page’s Brazilian Poetry” Emily Ballantyne Canadian Poetry 75 pp124–168.
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—– “P. K. Page’s Poetic Silence” Laura Cameron Canadian Poetry 75 pp42–60.
—– “Visual Arts and the Political World in P. K. Page’s Brazilian Journal” Wendy Roy Canadian Poetry 75 pp61–82.
—– “The Visual Arts and the Conflict of Modernist Aesthetics in P. K. Page’s ‘Ecce Homo’ and The Sun and the Moon Michèle Rackham Hall Canadian Poetry 75 pp25–41.
Pickthall, Marjorie see Hale, Katherine
Pollack, Sharon “‘Borders to Freedom’: Sitting Bull’s Precarious Canadian Refuge in Sharon Pollack’s Play Walsh Klara Kolinska Interactions: Ege Journal of British and American Studies 23(1–2) pp161–168.
Potrebenko, Helen “‘In Transit’: Taxi Driving as a Mini Paradigm in Gaito Gazdanov’s Night Roads and Helen Potrebenko’s Taxi!” Yulia Pushkarevskaya Naughton Canadian Review of Comparative Literature 41(3) pp242–253.
Richardson, John “Creole Frontiers: Imperial Ambiguities in John Richardson’s and James Fenimore Cooper’s Fiction” Oana Godeanu-Kenworthy Early American Literature 49(3) pp741–770.
Robertson, Lisa “’The Dystopia of the Obsolete’: Lisa Robertson’s Vancouver and the Poetics of Nostalgia” Paul Stephens Blast, Corrupt, Dismantle, Erase pp73–92 [see Atwood, Margaret, “Woman Gave Names”,
—– “The Utopian Textures and Civic Commons of Lisa Robertson’s Soft Architecture” Christopher Schmidt Reading the Difficulties pp146–156 [see Nichol, b. p.,
Robinson, Eden “’Just Say No’: Eden Robinson and Gabor Maté on Moral Luck and Addiction” Sabrina Reed Mosaic 47(4) pp151–166.
Sakamoto, Kerri “Intimate Details: Scrutiny and Evidentiary Photographs in Kerri Sakamoto’s The Electrical Field” Monica Choi in Scrutinized!: Surveillance in Asian North American Literature Monica Choi 177pp Univ of Hawaii Press (Honolulu, HI) US $45.
Scott, F. R. “’The Selfsame Welkin Ringing’: F. R. Scott and the Rewriting of ‘O Canada’” Robert G. May Canadian Poetry 74 pp12–29.
Selvadurai, Shyam see Mootoo, Shani, “Masculinities out of Line”,
Shaw, Nancy “Concealment and Disclosure: Nancy Shaw’s Scoptocratic” Louis Cabri Capilano Review 3(2) pp120–124.
Shields, Carol “The Work of Ambiguity: Writerly and Readerly Labor in Carol Shields’s The Stone Diaries” Kate Marantz Narrative 22(3) pp354–371.
—– The Worlds of Carol Shields ed David Staines 328pp Univ of Ottawa Press (Ottawa) Pb $39.95.
Smart, Elizabeth “Strange Body Bedfellows: Ecriture Féminine and the Poetics of Trans-Trauma” Meera Atkinson TEXT 18(1).
Steffler, John “‘This Page Faintly Stained With/Green’: Compost Aesthetics in John Steffler’s That Night We Were Ravenous” Studies in Canadian Literature 39(1) pp238–256.
Thien, Madeleine “Uncertain Landscapes: Risk, Trauma, and Scientific Knowledge in Madeleine Thien’s Certainty and Dogs at the Perimeter” Tania Aguila-Way Canadian Literature 221 pp18–35.
Urquhart, Jane “Voices from the Edge: De-Centering Master Narratives in Jane Urquhart’s The Stone Carvers” Alicia Fahey The Great War in Post-Memory Literature and Film pp411–425 [see
Vassanji, M. G., see Bissoondath, Neil Devindra,
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Voaden, Herman Arthur “Herman Voaden’s Romantic Ecology: Settler Identity and the Canadian Sublime” Nelson Gray Studies in Canadian Literature 39(1) pp77–97.
Wah, Fred see Nakada, Mark,
Warriar, Nalini “Writing Quebec City in Andrée Maillet’s Les Remparts de Québec and Nalini Warriar’s The Enemy Within” Ceri Morgan Canadian Literature 221 pp109–123.
Wilson, Ethel “I Just Love Ethel Wilson: A Reparative Reading of The Innocent Traveller” Misao Dean English Studies in Canada 40(2-3) pp65–81.
Winter, Kathleen “’Where the Mysterious and the Undefined Breathes and Lives’: Kathleen Winter’s Annabel as Intersex Text” Paul Chafe Studies in Canadian Literature 39(1) pp257–277.
Wright, Ronald, see Murphy, Michael,
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The Bricoleur & His Sentences Stan Dragland 200pp Pedlar (St. John’s, NL) Pb $22 [discussion of literary rhetoric, poetics and reading].
Dreaming of Elsewhere: Observations on Home Esi Edugyan 56pp Univ of Alberta Press: Canadian Literature Centre (Edmonton) Pb $10.95.
The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We’ve Lost in a World of Constant Connection Michael Harris 256pp HarperCollins (Toronto) Hb $29.99.
Every Object Has a Story: Extraordinary Canadians Celebrate the Royal Ontario Museum 188pp Royal Ontario Museum: Anansi (Toronto) Hb $29.95 [essays by 21 famous writers].
In Translation: Honouring Sheila Fischman ed Sherry Simon 248pp McGill-Queens Univ Press (Montréal) Hb $95 [essays on Fischman’ life and work and on translation in Canada; 2013]
Know the Night: A Memoir of Survival in the Small Hours Maria Mutch 205pp Knopf Canada (Toronto) Hb $28 [finalist for Governor General’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction].
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Journals
Canadian Literature ed Margery Fee special issue Recursive Time 222 pp6–112, pp198–203.
—– ed introd Janine Rogers ed Amanda Jernigan and Mason Travis special issue Science & Canadian Literature 221 pp6–205.
Canadian Poetry ed Emily Ballantyne, Emily Essert, and Michèle Rackham Hall special issue P. K. Page 75 pp1–169.
Capilano Review special issue Bowering’s Books 3(24) pp165–219.
International Journal of Canadian Studies ed introd Faye Hammill and Michelle Smith special issue Print Culture, Mobility, and the Middlebrow 48 pp5–252.