Book Reviews

Whether by serendipity or deliberate strategy, the timing of Noel Keough’s new book, Sustainability Matters: Prospects for a Just Transition in Calgary, Canada’s Petro-City, neatly coincided with [...]

In You Have Been Referred Michael Robinson shares some 30-plus tales from his unique and storied careers working in energy regulation, community consultation and with various NGOs. A Rhodes [...]

Confession: I do not read books of poetry from front to back—rather, I prefer to hunt and peck. This may do a disservice to poets who fret about the order of things. Apologies. But I do read [...]

Novelist and poet Jaspreet Singh’s latest book is for people who like memoirs—and, more exceptionally, for readers who are generally not fans of genre, too. This is because My Mother, My [...]

Reading Alternate Plains is like eating your way through a tasting platter at an experimental new restaurant. Some stories will be to your taste. Some will not. Maybe you’re more interested in a [...]

Since 1984 Sharon Butala has published 21 books; her second, Queen of the Headaches, was shortlisted for the 1986 Governor General’s Award for Fiction, which was won by Margaret Atwood’s The [...]

When Justin Trudeau was photographed, by his carefully positioned media team, solo paddling a red canoe down the Bow River in Calgary on September 17, 2015, ostensibly travelling to a federal [...]

Twenty years later, the terrorist attacks of 9/11 feel as recent as ever—at least when it comes to the wave of Islamophobia they sparked. Recent years have seen mass shootings at mosques in [...]

Unpredictable yet increasingly consistent, smoke season dominates our conversation whenever it arrives. It’s novel, and ominous, and fleeting, the perfect conversational kindling. Imagine, we [...]

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