Book Reviews

Our flight from Africa landed at the Edmonton airport in the midst of a February snowstorm. Tarmac lighting illuminated horizontal gusts of snow that vanished into the cold night. My parents, [...]

Su Croll is the author of three books of poetry. Seeing Martin is her first novel, but her elegiac, nuanced, beautifully descriptive writing could easily be her fourth book of poetry. Seeing [...]

At this particular historical moment, when the rhythms and rituals of grief and belonging are upended by the reality of a global pandemic, A.B. Dillon’s latest book of poems offers insight into [...]

The Shuswap country in British Columbia is a unique place. Among the houseboats, costly beachfront condos, fruit stands and highway attractions are old, humidity-warped country homes tucked in [...]

Picture a beekeeper. What image forms in your head? What gender? What cultural background? What uniform? What tools? What demeanour? With Revery: A Year of Bees, poet, professor, organic farmer [...]

By 2050 somehow we’ll need to feed 10 billion humans while also having reduced the vast harms of food production, not least its water pollution, deforestation and contributions to climate change. [...]

This book offers some radical points of view—if the year were 1980. Sadly for the editors of this collection of grievance-filled essays, that was more than 40 years ago. In 2021 Jack Mintz, Ted [...]

Calgary-born-and-raised Zsuzsi Gartner made her literary reputation on two award-winning short story collections. Beguiling, her first novel, is thus a long hoped-for event for her many admirers. [...]

In A White Lie, Madeeha Hafez Albatta recounts her life as a teacher, mother and activist in Gaza. This is the first of seven volumes in the “Women’s Voices from Gaza” series published by the [...]

Poised on the side of Tunnel Mountain with fabulous views up the Bow Valley, the Banff Centre is not only spectacularly located but is also one of Alberta’s most internationally recognizable [...]