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Ideological Roots of Our Eco-Catastrophe

Two Plays

As I get older, annoyingly, I find myself musing out loud that things aren’t how they used to be. Aaron W. Hughes, an Alberta-born religious studies professor, must be getting at least a little [...]

War. Pandemic. Environmental collapse. How is a poet supposed to make beauty out of all the ugliness? Edmonton poet Jason Purcell, in their debut poetry collection, Swollening, has found an [...]

Three Plays About Medical Conditions

Calgary 1976–2019

A Partial Memoir in Two Acts and a Prologue

The Romans get bad press when it comes to literature. When (or if) we think of the culture of pre-Christian Western antiquity, we tend to think of the clever, original Greeks and the imitative [...]

A Book of Letters

Some people just aren’t cut out for retirement. Take Beverley McLachlin, the former, and longest-serving, Chief Justice of Canada, who retired from the bench last December. In the few months [...]