Reviews
To support writers and their publishers, The Malahat Review posts the book reviews appearing in its print edition as each issue is published. They are arranged below by genre and within each genre, by author, listed in alphabetical order of last name. Some of the reviews posted below are expanded versions of the reviews that appeared in the print edition. Years listed are publication dates, not review dates.
*Review space may be limited in our quarterly magazine, but click here to read a list of new books received in our office. Please note that inclusion on the list does not necessarily preclude a print review.*
Poetry • Fiction • Nonfiction
Spotlight Review:
NISHGA
NISHGA reimagines memoir and history in a truly generative way. The epigraphs at the start of the book from John A. Macdonald and Duncan Campbell Scott—architects of the Residential school system and the Indian Act—are juxtaposed with a 2018 Facebook post from Métis poet Gregory Scofield that details the importance of making space in the circle for those who have grown up disconnected. It is in these interstitial spaces (or perhaps what Abel defines as empty spaces) between history and its violent machinations and Abel’s quest for reconnection and home that contributes to the book’s complex approach to understanding contemporary Indigenous experiences.
Poetry
2021
2020
Avant Desire: A Nicole Brossard Reader, edited by Sina Queyras, Geneviève Robichaud, and Erin Wunker
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
Fiction
2021
2020
2019
Bawaajigan: Stories of Power, edited by Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler & Christine Miskonoo-dinkwe Smith
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
Sandra McIntyre (ed.), Everything Is So Political: A Collection of Short Fiction by Canadian Writers
2012
2011
2010
2009
Nonfiction
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
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DEADLINES
Constance Rooke Creative Nonfiction Prize
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