Leaving home for the first time is already fraught for a teenager. But for the non-binary narrator of Green Glass Ghosts, a young queer person who has fled Calgary for the supposedly more [...]
Norma Dunning’s Tainna: The Unseen Ones picks up many of the themes of her prizewinning debut, Annie Muktuk and Other Stories, but these six new stories have even more of an edge. The lives of [...]
The title of this anthology edited by Calgary writer Rona Altrows echoes a backhanded compliment that sparked a deep dive into Altrows’s ambivalence about aging and frustration with the gendered [...]
For Canadians wrestling with the breakneck pace of digital innovation and its repercussions for long-established political practices, Digital Politics in Canada will come as a welcome read. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
