No. 260 (2025): Canadian Literature

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.14288/cl.vi260

Published: Aug. 15, 2025 (UTC)

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Editorials

From Then to Now

Christine Kim

6-13
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Articles

"the uncleanness of my dark skin" Toxic Burdens, Brown Embodiment, and Latinx-Indigenous Relationality in Rebecca Salazar’s sulphurtongue

Tania Aguila-Way

14-36
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Margaret Atwood, #BelieveWomen, and the Limits of Literary Criticism

Sara Minogue

37-58
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“That Particularly Canadian Thing” Remapping Black Canada through Narratives of Mobility

Emily Howe

59-75
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From Floods to Encounters Habitat Studies and Reading <i>This</i> River

Deborah Schamuhn Kirk

76-100
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Memories, Manifestation, and Finding a Way Forward Developing Agency through Spiralling Time in Michelle Good’s Five Little Indians

April McInnes

101-121
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Poetry

The Next Day

Jim Johnstone

122
The Rats of Aquileia

Richard Brait

123-125
On Hornby Island

Beverly Harris

126
by the fire

Robin Durnford

127-128
Price of Admission

donalee Moulton

129-130
The Cats Remain on Watch

Bill Howell
Some Other

Sally Quon

133-134
Goldfish Bowl for the Unspeakables

Cassandra Myers

135-136

Books in Review

Questioning Poetry A review of OЯACULE, by Nicole Raziya Fong; and Flying Red Horse, by Dale Martin Smith

Scott Inniss

137-143
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A Mystery Milestone: Gail Bowen and Canadian Crime Writing A review of An Image in the Lake: A Joanne Kilbourn Mystery, by Gail Bowen

Heidi Tiedemann Darroch, Manina Jones

144-154
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Converging Traditions in Rawi Hage's Fiction A review of Beirut to Carnival City: Reading Rawi Hage, by Krzysztof Majer, ed.

Olga Stein

155-163
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A Knack for Anachronism A review of Romantic, by Mark Callanan; Vlarf, by Jason Camlot; and The Tantramar Re-Vision, by Kevin Irie

Carl Watts

164-167
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A Luxury of Textures and Traditions A review of Mina among the Shadows, by Edem Awumey (Phyllis Aronoff and Howard Scott, trans.); Maame (Mother), by Elizabeth Allua Vaah; and A Good Name, by Yejide Kilanko

Misao Dean

168-169
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Seriously Playful / Playfully Serious A review of Word Problems, by Ian Williams; The Nerves Centre, by Angela Szczepaniak; and Lip, by Franco Cortese

Eric Schmaltz

170-172
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Indigenous Futures: Possible and Present A review of Me Tomorrow: Indigenous Views of the Future, by Drew Hayden Taylor, ed.; and Indigenous Women and Street Gangs: Survivance Narratives, by Robert Henry, ed.

Michael Minor

172-174
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Complex Simplicity A review of The Grand Melee, by Michel Tremblay (Sheila Fischman, trans.); and Twists of Fate: If by Chance and Destination Paradise, by Michel Tremblay (Linda Gaboriau, trans.)

Ralph Sarkonak

175-176
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"Lit up like a glowstick" A review of None of This Belongs to Me, by Ellie Sawatzky; and Pebble Swing, by Isabella Wang

Andrea MacPherson

177-178
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Vicious and Virtuous Circles A review of Second Place, by Rachel Cusk; and On Foot to Canterbury: A Son's Pilgrimage, by Ken Haigh

Dorothy Freda Lane

179-180
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Day of Wrath, Earth in Ashes A review of Field Requiem, by Sheri Benning

Warren Heiti

180-185
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A Sense of Place A review of Harbour Grids, by Zane Koss; and Bittersweet, by Natasha Ramoutar

Dani Spinosa

185-186
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Tides of Memory and Change A review of Cane | Fire, by Shani Mootoo; Lunar Tides, by Shannon Webb-Campbell; and Plenitude, by Daniel Sarah Karasik

Jane Willsie

187-188
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The Luminous World of Chelene Knight A review of Junie, by Chelene Knight

Minelle Mahtani

189-190
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Unmasking the Minister's Wife A review of Maud and Me, by Marianne Jones

Irene Gammel

190-192
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The Space Between A review of the fool, by Jessie Jones; Who We Thought We Were As We Fell, by Michael Lithgow; and Answer to Blue, by Russell Thornton

Kelly Shepherd
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Dying, Knowing, Fleeing A review of Only If We're Caught, by Theressa Slind; What We Think We Know, by Aaron Schneider; and Du coup j'ai fui la France, by Anaïs Gachet

Alice Hinchliffe

194-196
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