Letters in Canada 1976

Letters in Canada 1976 The editors of the University of Toronto Quarterly welcome a number of new collaborators to 'Letters in Canada: our annual review of publications in the humanities in Canada. They are R.P. Bilan and Sam Solecki, who have divided between them the responsibility of reviewing English Canadian fiction, one considering the work of established authors, and the other first works; John O'Connor, who is responsible for a new feature on French-English and English-French literary translations; Celine Saint-Pierre, in charge of the revived 'Etudes sodales'; Yvonne Grabowski, who has looked at a number of works in Slavic languages other than Ukrainian (unfortunately two specialists on Ukrainian Canadian literature who accepted, in turn, our invitation to review books in that area were, for personal reasons, unable to do so this year); and Eugene Orenstein, who has scanned books in Yiddish. Although in the past the University of Toronto Quarterly has attempted in its summer issue to give a comprehensive overview of Canadian publications within the various rubrics, we now feel the need for a reorientation. Because of the appearance of the Canadian Book Review Annual, and the continuing activity of Livres et auteurs quebecois, the editors have asked our collaborators not to note all books published during the year in the different genres and categories, but to select for comment and analysis those works which they feel to be most significant . In this way, reviewers will be able to delve more deeply into the books in question while at the same time comparing and contrasting them, as the need arises, within their columns. Another change this year has been the dropping of the sections on light prose and nature. We shall, of course, continue to watch for new publications of interest in these areas, but in the future these will be reviewed individually under the general heading of 'Humanities.' Finally, we wish to thank our former regular contributors - C.H. Andrusyshen, John M. Robson, O.H.T. Rudzik, and Richard M. Saunders - for their contributions to the Quarterly over the past several years. (B.-Z.S.) ...