The Rain Review of Books

Box 2684 Station Terminal, Vancouver, Coast Salish Territory BC/CA V6B 3W8 | books@rainreview.net


Edited by Aaron Vidaver


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Issue 16 (Spring 2009) [download as pdf]

Sebastian Touza on Marina Sitrin, Horizontalism: Voices of  Popular Power in Argentina (AK Press, 2006)

Andrea Actis on Stephen Collis, Phyllis Webb and the Common Good: Poetry / Anarchy / Abstraction (Talonbooks, 2007)

Charles Watts on John Curl, Insurrection/Resurrection (Working Peoples Artists, 1975)

An Exchange Between Sam Greenlee and Lawrence Ytzhak Braithwaite (7 April 2007)

Peyman Vahabzadeh on Mihalis Mentinis, Zapatistas: The Chiapas Revolt and What It Means for Radical Politics (Pluto Press, 2006)

Reg Johanson so Mark Cote, Richard J.F. Day and Greig de Peuter, eds, Utopian Pedagogy: Radical Experiments Against Neoliberal Globalization (University of  Toronto Press, 2007).

“obituary” by billy little


Volume 5 Issue 1 (Summer 2007) [download as pdf]

Fiona Jeffries on Surveillance Camera Players, We Know You are Watching: Surveillance Camera Players 1996-2006 (New York: Factory School, 2006)

Jerry Zaslove on Wayne Burns, Resisting our Culture of Conformity: In the Hills of Southern Ohio and in the Groves of Academe (Alpine: Blue Daylight Books, 2006)

Clint Burnham on Rob Manery, It's Not As If It Hasn't Been Said Before (Vancouver: Tsunami Editions, 2001) [with a letter from Rob Manery]

Judith Copithorne on Maxine Gadd, Backup to Babylon: Poems, 1972-1987 (Vancouver: New Star Books, 2006)

Andrew Klobucar on Slavoj Žižek, The Parallax View (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2006)

Alan Davies on Clint Burnham, Rental Van (Vancouver: Anvil Press, 2007)

Michael Barnholden on Eric W. Ricker and Frances Christopherson, eds., Nanaimo Between Past and Future: Critical Perspectives on Growth, Planning and the New Nanaimo Centre (Nanaimo: Friends of Plan Nanaimo Society, 2005)

Volume 4 Issue 2 (Summer-Autumn 2006) [download as pdf]

Reg Johanson on Mike Davis, Planet of Slums (London: Verso, 2006)

Percilla Groves on Hugh Johnson, Radical Campus: Making Simon Fraser University (Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 2005)

Michael Barnholden on Jon Paul Fiorentino and Robert Kroetsch, eds., Post-Prairie: An Anthology of New Poetry (Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2005) and Derek Beaulieu, Jason Christie and Angela Rawlings, eds., Shift and Switch: New Canadian Poetry (Toronto: The Mercury Press, 2005)

Gregory Placonouris on George Bowering, Baseball Love (Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2005)

Lawrence Ytzhak Braithwaite on Sam Greenlee, The Spook Who Sat by the Door (Bensenville: Lushena Books, 2002)

Peyman Vahabzadeh on Asef Bayat, Street Politics: Poor People's Movements in Iran (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997)

Lorna Brown on Bill Jeffries, Glen Lowry and Jerry Zaslove, eds., Unfinished Business: Photographing Vancouver Streets, 1955 to 1985 (Burnaby: West Coast Line, 2006)

Jeff Shantz on Jorge E. Hardoy and David Satterthwaite, Squatter Citizen: Life in the Urban Third World (London: Earthscan, 1989)


Volume 4 Issue 1 (Winter 2006)
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Harsha Walia on Anna Pratt, Securing Borders: Detention and Deportation in Canada (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2005)

Marie Annharte Baker on Thomas King, A Short History of Indians in Canada (Toronto: Harper Collins, 2005)

Fiona Jeffries on Silvia Federici, Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation (New York: Autonomedia, 2004)

Colin Smith on David Lester, The Gruesome Acts of Capitalism (Winnipeg: Arbeiter Ring, 2004)

Judith Copithorne on Daniel f. Bradley, A Boy's First Book of Chlamydia: Poems 1996-2002 (Toronto: BookThug, 2005)

Max Sartin on Michael Barnholden, Reading The Riot Act: A Brief History of Rioting in Vancouver (Vancouver: Anvil Press 2005)

Sandy Cameron on Bud Osborn and Richard Tetrault, Signs of the Times (Vancouver: Paneficio Studios / Anvil Press, 2005)


Roger Farr on Richard Day, Gramsci is Dead: Anarchist Currents in the Newest Social Movements (Toronto / London: Between the Lines / Pluto Press, 2005)


Marie Annharte Baker's third book of poetry is Exercises in Lip Pointing; "Borrowing Enemy Language" her classic essay, appeared first in West Coast Line in 1993. Sandy Cameron's latest collection is Being True to Ourselves: Downtown Eastside Poems of Resistance; a selection of his essays, Taking Another Look at Class, was published by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives in 1999. Judith Copithorne, one of the original Downtown Poets, so-called, of Vancouver, was inducted into the Giantesses in 1992. Roger Farr edits the poetics journal Parser and teaches writing and theory at Capilano College. Fiona Jeffries writes on resistance to the new enclosures, coordinates the Counter Culture series at Simon Fraser University and is a member of An Ungrammatical Multitude. Max Sartin writes for the Insurrectionary Anarchists of the Coast Salish Territories. Colin Smith, author of Multiple Poses, has, at last, returned to Vancouver after seven years in Winnipeg. Harsha Walia's recent articles appear online at Znet and Seven Oaks; she organizes with No One Is Illegal in Vancouver.


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Index to Books Reviewed in The Rain Volumes I-III (2003-2006)
Edited and Published by Michael Barnholden

"History falls like rain, not everyone gets wet."

>> Editorial (January 2006). [Michael Barnholden 3:4 (1)]

Alan Antliff, ed., Only A Beginning: An Anarchist Anthology. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2004. [Roger Farr 3:1 (1)]

Luanna Armstrong, The Bone House. Vancouver: New Star Books, 2002. [Michael Barnholden 1:2 (1)]

Joel Bakan, The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power. Toronto: Penguin Canada, 2004. [J.C. Sutcliffe 2:3 (7)]

Marie Annharte Baker, Exercises in Lip Pointing. Vancouver: New Star Books, 2003. [Reg Johanson 1:1 (7)]

Chris Banks, Bonfires. Toronto: Junction Books, 2003. [Heather Neale 2:2 (2)]

Jean Barman, Maria Mahoi of the Islands. Vancouver: New Star Books, 2004. [M. Wayne Cunningham 2:4 (5)]

Jean Barman, The Remarkable Adventures of Portugese Joe Silvey. Madeira Park: Harbour Publishing, 2004. [J.M. Bridgeman 2:5 (2)]

David Beers with Russ Francis, Barbara McLintock, Will McMartin, Alisa Smith, Chris Tenove and others, Liberalized. Vancouver: New Star Books, 2005. [Michael Barnholden 3:2 (1)]

Jonathan Bennet, The Verandah People (Stories). Vancouver: Raincoast Books, 2003. [Nathaniel G. Moore 2:1 (5)]

Stephen Bett, High Maintenance. Victoria: Ekstasis Editions, 2003. [John Tyndall 2:4 (4)]

bill bissett, peter among th towring boxes: text bites. Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2002. [Jamie Reid 1:2 (8)]

bill bissett, narrative enigma/rumours uv hurricane. Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2004. [Michael Barnholden 2:5 (7)]

Jay Black, Guttersnipe. Vancouver: Black Ink Books, 2004. [Michael Barnholden 2:6 (4)]

Lance Blomgren, Corner Pieces. Montreal: Conundrum, 2004. [Stephen Collis 3:3 (7)]

George Bowering, Stone Country: An Unauthorized History of Canada. Toronto: Penguin Canada, 2003. [Michael Barnholden 2:2 (1)]

Daniel f. Bradley, A Boy's First Book of Chlamydia. Toronto: BookThug, 2005. [Donato Mancini 3:4 (2)]

Brian Brett, Coyote. Saskatoon: Thisledown Press, 2003. [Heather Neale 2:1 (6)]

Chester Brown, Louis Riel: A Comic Strip-Biography. Montreal: Drawn and Quarterly Publications, 2003. [Michael Barnholden 2:1 (1)]

Justine Brown, Hollywood Utopia. Vancouver: New Star Books, 2002. [Michael Barnholden 1:1 (4)]

Lester R. Brown, Plan B: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble. New York: W.W. Norton & Co, 2003. [Tom Sandborn 2:6 (7)]

Kim Barry Brunhuber, Kameleon Man. Vancouver: Beach Holme Publishing, 2003. [J.C. Sutcliffe 2:2 (3)]

Grant Buday, A Sack of Teeth. Vancouver: Raincoast Books, 2002. [John Harris 1:2 (4)]

Paul Buhle and Nicole Schulman, eds., Wobblies! A Graphic History of the Industrial Workers of the World. New York: Verso, 2005. [Michael Barnholden 3:3 (2)]

Chrystaline Buhler et al, eds., From This New World. Vancouver: Ten Dollar Words, 2003. [Heather Neale 1:2 (7)]

Bob Burrows, Healing in the Wilderness: A History of the United Church Mission Hospitals. Madeira Park: Harbour Publishing, 2004. [M. Wayne Cunningham 3:1 (6)]

Anne Cameron, Family Resemblances. Madiera Park: Harbour Publishing, 2003. [Karen X. Tulchinsky 2:1 (5)]

Sandy Cameron, Being True to Ourselves: Downtown Eastside Poems of Resistance. Vancouver: Swancam, 2004. [Marsha Drake 3:1 (7)]

Anna Camilleri, I Am A Red Dress. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2004. [J.C. Sutcliffe 3:1 (3)]

Edward J. Chamberlin, If This Is Your Land Where Are Your Stories? Toronto: Knopf Canada, 2003. [M. Wayne Cunningham 1:2 (3)]

Noam Chomsky, Hegemony or Survival? America’s Question for Global Dominance (The American Empire Project). New York: Metropolitan Books, 2004. [Richard Brittain 2:5 (3)]

Wayston Choy, All That Matters. Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 2004. [Joe Wiebe 2:6 (3)]

Marcello Di Cintio, Harmattan, Wind Across West Africa. Toronto: Insomniac Press, 2002. [Heather Neale 1:1 (2)]

Lincoln Clarkes, Heroines: Photographs. Vancouver: Anvil Press, 2003. [Michael Barnholden 1:1 (1/8)]

Lynn Coady, Saints of Big Harbour. Toronto: Anchor Canada, 2003. [Richard Brittain 3:2 (7)]

Anne Coleman, I’ll Tell You a Secret: A Memory of Seven Summers. Toronto: McLelland & Stewart, 2004. [M. Wayne Cunningham 3:2 (6)]

Don Coles, Doctor Bloom’s Story. Toronto: Knopf Canada, 2004. [M. Wayne Cunningham 2:4 (4)]

Wayde Compton, Performance Bond. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2004. [Reg Johanson 3:3 (1)]

Tom Cone, True Mummy. Vancouver: Anvil Press, 2004. [Andrew Klobucar 2:4 (2)]

Ivan E. Coyote, One Man's Trash. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2002. [Tom Sandborn 1:2 (6)]

David Cruise and Alison Griffiths, Vancouver. Toronto: Harper Flamingo Canada, 2003. [Heather Neale 1:1 (2)]

Peter Culley, Hammertown. Vancouver: New Star Books, 2003. [Lisa Robertson 2:4 (8); Christopher Brayshaw 2:5 (2)]

Frank Davey, Back to the War. Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2005. [Zachariah Wells 3:3 (8); James Ross 3:3 (8)]

Barry Dempster, The Words Wanting Out: Poems Selected and New. Roberts Creek: Nightwood Editions, 2003. [Zachariah Wells 2:3 (2)]

Jeff Derksen, Transnational Muscle Cars. Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2003. [Brian Kim Stefans 1:1 (4); Donato Mancini 3:2 (4-5)]

Nate Dorward, ed., Removed For Further Study: The Poetry of Tom Raworth. The Gig [Toronto] 13/14 (2003). [Victor Coleman 2:4 (7)]

Rejean Ducharme, Go Figure. Translated by Will Browning. Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2004. [J.C. Sutcliffe 2:4 (2)]

Mark Edge, Red Line Blue Line Bottom Line: How Push Came to Shove Between the National Hockey League and its Players. Vancouver: New Star Books, 2004. [Michael Barnholden 2:6 (4)]

Laura Endridge, Tro-tros and Potholes: West Africa: Solo. Vancouver: Four Corners Publishing, 2003. [James Ross 2:1 (2)]

Derek Fairbridge, ed., The Vancouver Stories: West Coast Fiction from Canada’s Best Writers. Introduced by Douglas Coupland. Vancouver: Raincoast, 2005. [Cynthia Flood 3:4 (8)]

M.A.C. Farrant, Darwin Alone in the Universe. Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2003. [Jean Smith 2:1 (4)]

M.A.C. Farrant, My Turquoise Years: A Memoir. Vancouver: Greystone Books, 2004. [Nancy Newman 2:4 (4)]

Brian Fawcett, Virtual Clearcut: or, The Way Things Are in My Hometown. Toronto: Thomas Allen, 2003. [Ryan Knighton 1:1 (6)]

Brian Fawcett, Local Matters: In Defense of Dooney's Cafe and Other Non-Globalized People, Places and Ideas. Vancouver: New Star Books, 2003. [Flick Harrison 2:3 (2)]

George Featherling, Singer, An Elegy. Vancouver: Anvil Press, 2004. [Michael Barnholden 3:1 (6)]

Rob Ferguson, The Devil and the Disappearing Sea. Vancouver: Raincoast Books, 2003. [Viola Funk 2:1 (7)]

Daniel Francies, L.D.: Mayor Louis Taylor and the Rise of Vancouver. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2004. [Michael Barnholden 2:4 (1)]

Marvin Francis, city treaty, a long poem. Winnipeg: Turnstone Press, 2002. [Marie Annharte Baker 1:1 (3)]

Steven Galloway, Ascension. Toronto: Knopf Canada, 2003. [M. Wayne Cunningham 2:1 (3)]

W.F. Garrett-Petts, The Small Cities Book: On the Future of Small Cities. Vancouver: New Star Books, 2005. [Michael Barnholden 3:3 (6)]

Bill Gaston, Sointula. Vancouver: Raincoast Books, 2004. [J.C. Sutcliffe 3:2 (1)]

Diana George and Charles Tonderai Mudede, eds., Politics Without The State: Joy, Terror and Depression in the Global Corporate Order. Seattle: Seattle Research Institute, 2002. [Andrew Klobucar 2:1 (8)]

Shree Ghatage, Brahma's Dream. Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 2004. [Heather Neale 2:6 (4)]

William Gibson, Pattern Recognition. Toronto: Penguin Putnam, 2003. [Joe Wiebe 1:2 (5)]

Hiromi Goto, Hopeful Monsters. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2004. [Jean Smith 2:3 (6)]

Barbara Gowdy, The Romantic. Toronto: Harper Flamingo Canada, 2003. [Kathryn Ogg 2:2 (5)]

Sherrill Grace and Albert-Reiner Glaap, eds., Performing National Identities: International Perspectives on Contemporary Canadian Theatre. Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2003. [Mia Parry 2:1 (6)]

Jessica Grant, Making Light of Tragedy. Erin, Ontario: The Porcupine's Quill, 2004. [J.C. Sutcliffe 2:6 (7)]

Paul Grant and Laurie Dickson, Stanley Park Companion. Vancouver: Bluefield Books, 2003. [Lenore Herb 2:2 (7)]

Taras Grescoe, The End of Elsewhere: Travels Among the Tourists. Toronto: Macfarlane Walter & Ross, 2003. [Viola Funk 1:2 (3)]

Stephen Guppy, The Fire Thief. Toronto: Thomas Allen Publishers, 2004. [Michael Harris 2:4 (3)]

Mark Haddon, the curious incident of the dog in the night-time. Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 2002. [Jane Dyson 1:2 (3)]

Kenneth J. Harvey, The Town That Forgot How to Breathe. Vancouver: Raincoast Books, 2003. [Darlene Shatford 2:1 (6)]

Donald J. Hauka, McGowan's War. Vancouver: New Star Books, 2003. [Tom Sandborn 2:1 (3)]

Joseph Heath and Andrew Potter, The Rebel Sell: Why The Culture Can't Be Jammed. Toronto: Harper Collins, 2004. [Richard Brittain 3:3 (3)]

Richard Heinberg, The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies. Gabriola Island: New Society Publishers, 2003. [Monte Paulsen 2:1 (3)]

Matt Hern, Field Day: Getting Society Out of School. Vancouver: New Star Books, 2003. [Crawford Killian 2:1 (1)]

Robert Hilles, A Gradual Rain. Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 2004. [Joe Wiebe 2:4 (3)]

Barbara Hodgson, Opium: A Portrait of the Heavenly Demon. Vancouver: Greystone Books, 1999. [Michael Barnholden 1:1 (7)]

Margaret Hollingsworth, Be Quiet. Vancouver: Blue Lake Books, 2003. [Mia Perry 2:3 (5)]

Nalo Hopkinson and Uppinder Mehan, eds., So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction & Fantasy. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2005. [Flick Harrison 3:2 (2-3)]

Robert Hunter, The Greenpeace to Amchitka: An Environmental Odyssey. Photographs by Robert Keziere. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2004. [Tom Sandborn 2:6 (1)]

Crystal Hurdle, After Ted and Sylvia: Poems. Vancouver: Ronsdale Press, 2003. [Carellin Brooks 2:2 (1)]

Clint Hutzulak, The Beautiful Dead End. Vancouver: Anvil Press, 2001. [Michael Barnholden 2:2 (7)]

George K. Illsley, Random Acts of Hatred. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2003. [David Watmough 1:2 (6)]

Anosh Irani, The Cripple and His Talismans. Vancouver: Raincoast Books, 2003. [J.C. Sutcliffe 2:4 (5)]

Ray Johnson, The Paper Snake. New York: Something Else Press, 1964. [Donato Mancini 2:2 (5)]

Eve Joseph, The Startled Heart. Lantzville: Oolichan Books, 2004. [Chris Turnbull 3:1 (2)]

Adeena Karasick, The House That Hijack Built. Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2004. [Michael Barnholden 2:5 (7)]

Joe Keithly, I, Shithead: A Life in Punk. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2003. [Michael Turner 2:1 (5)]

Keith Keller, Wildfire Wars: Frontline Stories of BC's Worst Forest Fires. Madeira Park: Harbour Publishing, 2003. [Diana Skoglund 1:2 (1)]

Kaie Kellough, Lettricity. Montréal: Cumulus Press, 2004. [Wayde Compton 3:1 (3)]


Yvonne Mearns Klan, The Old Red Shirt. Transmontanus 12. Vancouver: New Star Books, 2004. [M. Wayne Cunningham 2:5 (6)]

Mark Laba, Dummy Spit. Toronto: The Mercury Press, 2002. [Donato Mancini 2:3 (4)]

Larissa Lai and Rita Wong, Sybil Unrest. Burnaby: West Coast Line Books, 2004. [Michael Barnholden 2:2 (4)]

Patrick Lane and Lorna Crozier, eds., Breathing Fire 2: Canada's New Poets. Roberts Creek: Nightwood Editions, 2004. [Reg Johanson 3:1 (4)]

Annabel Lyon, The Best Thing For You. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 2003. [Joe Wiebe 2:3 (2)]

Bob Mackin, The Unofficial Guide to Baseball's Most Unusual Records. Vancouver: Greystone, 2004. [Michael Barnholden 2:6 (3)]

Ray MacSkimming, The Perilous Trade: Publishing Canada's Writers. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 2003. [Victor Coleman 2:2 (6)]

Guy Maddin, From the Atelier Tover: Selected Writings. Toronto: Coach House Books, 2003. [Victor Coleman 2:3 (3)]

Gabor Mate, MD, When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress. Toronto: Alfred Knpof, 2003. [Kathryn Ogg 2:2 (2)]

Ralph Maud, ed., Poet to Publisher: Charles Olson's Correspondence with Donald Allen. Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2003. [Michael Barnholden 2:2 (4)]

Rita McBride and Erin Cosgrove, eds., Heartways: The Exploits of Genny O. Vancouver: Arsenal Advance Press, 2004. [Kathryn Ogg 2:4 (3)]

John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge, The Right Nation: Conservative Power in America. New York: Penguin Press, 2004. [Tom Sandborn 3:3 (4)]

rob mclennan, what's left. Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2004. [Michael Barnholden 2:3 (8)]

Roy Miki, Redress: Inside the Japanese Canadian Call for Justice. Vancouver: Raincoast Books, 2004. [Michael Barnholden 3:1 (8)]

Charles Montgomery, The Last Heathen: Encounters with Ghosts and Ancestors in Melanesia. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 2004. [M. Wayne Cunningham 2:6 (5)]

Motley Crue with Neil Strauss, The Dirt. New York: Regan Books, 2001. [Richard Brittain 2:1 (4)]

W.H. New, Grandchild of Empire: About Irony, Mainly in the Commonwealth. Vancouver: Ronsdale Press, 2003. [J.C. Sutcliffe 2:1 (4)]

Bruce O'Hara, Enough Already. Vancouver: New Star Books, 2005. [Vivien Lougheed 3:2 (2)]

Opesthai, Wayne Overload Mercier. Vancouver: Ten Dollar Words, 2004. [Bonnie Nash 3:3 (2)]

Tom Osborne, Foozlers. Vancouver: Anvil Press, 2005. [Mike Ferguson 3:2 (1)]

Jean-Claude Parrot, My Union, My Life: Jean-Claude Parrot and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers. Halifax: Fernwood Books, 2005. [Richard Brittain 3:4 (8)]

Bill Proctor and Yvonne Maximchuk, Full Moon Flood Tide: Bill Proctor's Raincoast. Madeira Park: Harbour Publishing, 2003. [Diana Skoglund 2:1 (2)]

John Punter, The Vancouver Achievement. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2003. [Raymon Torchinsky 1:2 (2)]

Meredith Quartermain, Vancouver Walking. Edmonton: NeWest Press, 2005. [Mike Ferguson 3:3 (6)]

Meredith Quartermain and Robin Blaser, Wanders. Vancouver: Nomados Press, 2002. [Soma Feldmar 1:2 (5)]

Jamie Reid, I, Another. The Space Between: Selected Poems. Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2004. [Michael Barnholden 2:5 (7)]

Boyce Richardson, Memoirs of a Media Maverick. Toronto: Between the Lines, 2003. [Flick Harrison 2:2 (3)]

Leslie A. Robertson and Dara Culhane, eds., In Plain Sight: Reflections on Life in Downtown Eastside Vancouver. Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2005. [Margot Leigh Butler 3:4 (4-5)]

Lisa Robertson, Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office of Soft Architecture. Astoria: Clear Cut Press, 2003. [Stephen Collis 2:3 (3)]

Stuart Ross, Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer. Vancouver: Anvil Press, 2005. [Victor Coleman 3:3 (5)]

Joseph Roth, What I Saw: Reports from Berlin 1920-1933. Translated with an introduction by Michael Hoffman. New York: W.W. Norton, 2003. [Stan Persky 1:1 (2)]

Mari-Lou Rowley, Viral Suite. Vancouver: Anvil Press, 2004. [James Ross 2:6 (2)]

Susan Rudy and Pauline Butling, eds., Poets Talk: Conversations with Robert Kroetsch, Daphne Marlatt, Erin Moure, Dionne Brand, Marie Annharte Baker, Jeff Derksen and Fred Wah. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2005. [Roger Farr and Reg Johanson 3:4 (6)]


Susan Rudy and Pauline Butling, Writing in Our Time: Canada's Radical Poetries in English (1957-2003). Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2005. [Roger Farr and Reg Johanson 3:4 (6)]

Anny Scoones, Tales of a Heritage Farm. Hedgerow Press, 2004. [M. Wayne Cunningham 3:4 (3)]

Jordan Scott, Silt. Vancouver: New Star Books, 2004. [Steve Collis 3:1 (5)]

Bruce Serafin, Colin's Big Thing. Victoria: Ekstasis Editions, 2004. [Vivien Lougheed 2:5 (1)]

Reid Shier, ed., Stan Douglas: Every Building on 100 West Hastings. Vancouver: Contemporary Art Gallery and Arsenal Pulp Press, 2002. [Michael Barnholden 1:1 (1/8); Peter Hudson 2:5 (5)]

Joan Skogan, Mary of Canada: The Virgin Mary in Canadian Culture, Spirituality, History and Geography. Banff: Banff Centre Press, 2003. [Kathryn Ogg 2:6 (3)]

David Spaner, Dreaming in the Rain: How Vancouver Became Hollywood North by Northwest. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2003. [Flick Harrison 1:2 (7)]

Art Spiegelman, In The Shadows of No Towers. Toronto: Random House, 2004. [Rick Appel 3:2 (3)]

George Stanley, A Tall Serious Girl. Jamestown: Qua Books, 2003. [Ted Byrne 2:4 (6)]

Jon Stewart et al, America: The Book. New York: Warner Books, 2004. [Neale Barnholden 3:1 (7)]

Robert Strandquist, The Dreamlife of Bridges. Vancouver: Anvil Press, 2003. [Michael Barnholden 2:3 (1)]

Carolyn Strange and Tina Loo, True Crime, True North. Vancouver: Raincoast Books, 2004. [Neale Barnholden 2:4 (5)]

Andrew Struthers, The Last Voyage of the Loch Ryan. Vancouver: New Star Books, 2004. [Kathryn Ogg 3:2 (8).

Warren Tallman, In The Midst. Vancouver: Talonbooks, 1992. [Michael Barnholden 2:5 (7)]

Paul Taylor, ed., The Heart of the Community: The Best of the Carnegie Newsletter. Vancouver: New Star Books, 2003. [Michael Barnholden 1:1 (1/8)]

Paul Taylor, ed., The Heart of the Community: The Best of the Carnegie Newsletter. Vancouver: New Star Books, 2003. [ Reg Johanson 2:2 (4)]

Timothy Taylor, Stanley Park. Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001. [Nancy Newman 1:1 (4)]

Elizabeth Templeman, Notes from the Interior: Settling in at Heffley Creek. Lantzville: Oolichan Books, 2003. [M. Wayne Cunningham 2:2 (7)]

Sharon Thesen, News and Smoke: Selected Poems. Vancouver: Talonbooks, 1999. [Ted Byrne 1:1 (5)]

Sharon Thesen, A Pair of Scissors. Toronto: House of Anansi Press, 2000. [Ted Byrne 1:1 (5)]

Charles Tidler, Going to New Orleans. Vancouver: Anvil Press, 2004. [Michael Barnholden 2:5 (6)]

Maria Tippet, Bill Reid: The Making of an Indian. Toronto: Random House, 2003. [Brian Brett 2:2 (8)]

Peter Trower, Haunted Hills & Hanging Valleys: Selected Poems 1969-2004. Forward by Don McKay. Madeira Park: Harbour Publishing, 2004. [Zachariah Wells 3:2 (6-7)]

Karen X. Tulchinsky, The Five Books of Moses Lapinsky. Vancouver: Polestar/Raincoast, 2003. [Michael Barnholden 2:3 (8)]

Jacqueline Turner, Careful. Toronto: ECW Press, 2003. [rob mclennan 2:3 (5)]

Alan Twigg, First Invaders: The Literary Origins of British Columbia. Vancouver: Ronsdale, 2004. [J.M. Bridgeman 3:1 (8)]

Charles Ungerleider, Failing Our Kids: How We Are Ruining Our Public Schools. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 2003. [Crawford Killian 2:1 (1)]

M.G. Vassanji, The In-Between World of Vikram Lall. Toronto: Anchor Canada, 2004. [Joanna Reid 3:3 (2)]

Aaron Vidaver, ed., Woodsquat. West Coast Line 41 (2004). [Sandy Cameron and Jean Swanson 2:3 (1)].


Donna Vogel, Challenging Politics: COPE, Electoral Politics and Social Movements. Halifax: Fernwood Publishing, 2003. [Clint Burnham 2:1 (2)]

Maggie de Vries, Missing Sarah: A Vancouver Woman Remembers Her Vanished Sister. Toronto: Penguin, 2004. [Margot Leigh Butler 2:5 (4)]

Maggie de Vries, Missing Sarah: A Vancouver Woman Remembers Her Vanished Sister. Toronto: Penguin, 2004. [Karina Vernon 2:5 (5)]

Bill Waiser, All Hell Can't Stop Us: The On-to-Ottawa Trek and Regina Riot. Calgary: Fifth House, 2003. [Michael Barnholden 1:2 (1)]

Scott Watson, ed., Ray Johnson: How Sad I Am Today. Catalogue from exhibition curated by Michael Morris and Sharla Sava. Vancouver: Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, 1999. [Victor Coleman 2:1 (7)]

Tony Webb, The Collaborative Games. London: Pluto Press, 2001. [Tom Sandborn 2:4 (1)]

Stephen Wehner, ed., Traffic Life: Passionate Tales and Exit Strategies. Vancouver: The Buckmaster Institute, 2003. [Jim Minter 2:3 (4)]

Rex Weyler, Greenpeace: How a Group of Ecologists, Journalists and Visionaries Changed the World. Vancouver: Raincoast Books, 2004. [Tom Sandborn 2:6 (1)]

Gerry William, The Woman in the Trees. Vancouver: New Star Books, 2004. [Cynthia Flood 3:1 (6)]

Hillel Wright, Rotary Sushi: many kinds of stories & 5 translations by Mihiro Kizuki. Nelson: New Orphic Publishers, 2003. [J.M. Bridgeman 2:6 (6)]

Rachel Wyatt, Time's Reach. Lantzville: Oolichan Books, 2003. [Karen X. Tulchinsky 2:2 (3)]

Mitsuo Yesaki, Watari-dori (Birds of Passage). Vancouver: Peninsula Publishing, 2005. [James Ross 3:2 (8)]

Terence Young, After Goodlake's. Vancouver: Raincoast Books, 2004. [Cynthia Flood 2:5 (3)]