Book Reviews

Eugene Stickland has written some notable plays. Some Assembly Required was nominated for a Governor General’s Award. A Guide to Mourning and Queen Lear have both been widely produced. But he [...]

I’m a fan of mass transit, everything from how it allows cities to be denser and more interesting, to the clack and rumble of a good subway—New York’s, Boston’s, Toronto’s. I enjoy unique [...]

Some stories are timeless. The oldest and most enduring is the tale of a young hero who encounters the heights of kindness and the depths of depravity along a perilous journey. It’s the theme of [...]

In this latest collection of her poetry, A Selected History of Soul Speak, Andrea Thompson wants to put the tenuous relationship between spoken word and formal poetry to bed. Not only does her [...]

Frances Peck’s debut novel, The Broken Places, about a fictional Vancouver earthquake and the lives it disrupts, takes a hatchet to the trope that those who can’t do, teach. As a writing workshop [...]

Short fiction has limits. Years ago a colleague summed it up fairly reasonably as: “Short stories ask questions. Novels provide answers.” It doesn’t bother me that a story can’t be a complete [...]

The “neutral zone trap” is a tactic in hockey wherein the defending team traps the advancing team in the centre of the ice, killing their momentum and denying them the opportunity to score a [...]

Having spent the better part of my life defending my hometown, Lethbridge, against stereotypes, I am realizing I may harbour a few about Calgary. This is one of the reasons why the essays in dee [...]

There’s no scarcity of books written about landscapes and ecosystems of obvious beauty and ecological importance, such as the majesty of the Rocky Mountains or the giant cedars that stand [...]

Edited by Luciana Erregue-Sacchi, a Canadian-Argentinian writer and editor, Beyond the Food Court brings together the culinary traditions of 14 Alberta-based writers who use food as a lens to [...]