Book Reviews

Book reviews for all published issues are available on OJS.

Upcoming book reviews

  • The Box by George Bowering

Reviewed by Mark Diotte

  • Burlesque West: Showgirls, Sex, and Sin in Postwar Vancouver by Becki Ross

Reviewed by Lara Campbell

  • Jacob's Prayer: Loss and Resilience at Alkali Lake by Lorne Dufour

Reviewed by Mary-Ellen Kelm

  • On the Art of Being Canadian by Sherrill Grace

Reviewed by Sarah Stanners

  • The Collector: David Douglas and the Natural History of the Northwest by Jack Nisbet

Reviewed by David Brownstein

  • West End Murders by Roy Innes
  • Seaweed in the Soup by Stanley Evans
  • Seaweed on the Rocks by Stanley Evans

Reviewed by Chad Reimer

  • The Chief Factor's Daughter by Vanessa Winn
  • The Man Game by Lee Henderson

Reviewed by Mark Diotte

  • Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life by Brian Brett

Reviewed by Kenneth Favrholdt

  • Wicihitowin: Aboriginal Social Work in Canada by Raven Sinclair, Michael Anthony Hart, Gord Bruyere

Reviewed by Shelly Johnson

  • Interventions: Native American Art for Far-flung Territories by Judith Ostrowitz

Reviewed by Leslie Dawn

  • Beyond the Indian Act: Restoring Aboriginal Property Rights by Tom Flanagan, Christopher Alcantara, AndrĂ© Le Dressay

Reviewed by Daniel Millette

  • Living Proof: The Essential Data-Collection Guide for Indigenous Use-and-Occupancy Map Surveys by Terry Tobias

Reviewed by Thomas McIlwraith

  • Bannock and Beans: A Cowboy's Account of the Bedaux Expedition by Bob White

Reviewed by Mark Diotte

  • Family Origin Histories: The Whaling Indians: West Coast Legends and Stories, Part 11 of the Sapir-Thomas Nootka Texts by Tyee Bob

Reviewed by Marlene Atleo

  • Native Peoples and Water Rights: Irrigation, Dams, and the Law in Western Canada by Kenichi Matsui

Reviewed by Jenny Clayton

  • Making the News: A Times Colonist Look at 150 Years of History by Dave Obee

Reviewed by Kenton Storey

  • All that We Say Is Ours: Guiyaaw and the Reawakening of the Haida Nation by Ian Gill

Reviewed by E.R. Atleo