Book Reviews

Protest and Democracy (edited by Moisés Arce and Roberta Rice, University of Calgary Press, 2019). From the Arab Spring to the Occupy Wall Street movement, mass protests shook countries around [...]

  Garth Martens’s debut performance, in his 2014 book Prologue for the Age of Consequence, set a poetic template, hammered together with a framer’s hammer and a carpenter’s level, for [...]

Since the “dark satanic mills” William Blake observed in 1808, writers have warned about the environmental consequences of industrialization. A lot of good those warnings did: Today a [...]

Steps away from the bombed-out remains of the Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall stands a small statue memorializing Sadako Sasaki, who was just two years old when the United States [...]

In Doing Politics Differently? Sylvia Bashevkin offers readers a thoughtfully curated collection focused on Canada’s first 11 women premiers. Presenting the first systematic assessment of [...]

Frontenac House has published its Quartet 2019, a suite of four books of poetry, as they’ve been doing annually since 2001. The release of four poetry books by four authors simultaneously is a [...]

Rogers Place officially opened in downtown Edmonton in September 2016. The arena—the new home of the Edmonton Oilers—cost $483.5-million to build, and, along with hundreds of millions of dollars [...]

The title of Calgary writer Monica Kidd’s fourth collection of poetry, Chance Encounters with Wild Animals, suggests an exploration of the risks and rewards of wilderness travel, the kind that [...]

I loved Edmonton author Todd Babiak’s The Empress of Idaho. Set in Monument, Colorado, it features all the hallmarks of a small-town America coming-of-age story in the late ’80s, complete with [...]

That morning” are the first two words of Lauren Carter’s new novel: “That morning,” the one after Melony’s high school graduation party, when everything changes. She wakes up feeling right with [...]