An Autobiography of the Autobiography of Reading
It is telling that Dionne Brand, an internationally acclaimed and award-winning poet and novelist, opens An Autobiography of the Autobiography of Reading by reflecting on a photo of herself as a [...]
This One Wild Life: A Mother–Daughter Wilderness Memoir
One of the writers Angie Abdou calls upon in This One Wild Life is Haruki Murakami, who, she tells us, wrote about running to try to understand what running means. In this memoir, Abdou writes to [...]
Humane
Early in Humane, following a vision-dream of her dead grandmother, Hazel Lesage steals a dog from an animal shelter. Hazel, an amateur detective, has agreed to try to find the killer of an [...]
Driven: The Secret Lives of Taxi Drivers
In Marcello Di Cintio’s latest book, the Calgary-based writer examines the criss-crossing paths and stories of Canadian taxi drivers. The result is an engrossing collection of vignettes that [...]
Regime of Obstruction: How Corporate Power Blocks Energy Democracy
Humanity is only beginning to understand what it will take to create an environmentally and socially sustainable democracy, but two necessary transformations are already clear: The fossil fuel [...]
Should We Fluoridate Our Water?
Dr. Richard Musto says yes Public health and preventive medicine physician and clinical professor at U of C Community water fluoridation (CWF) is an essential and key element of efforts a [...]
The Nenshi Years
Taking stock of the purple wave
The Cracks in the Culture of Conformity
In conservative rural Alberta, newspaper columns provide a forum for critique