Book Reviews

  Margo Talbot’s newly re-released All That Glitters opens with a meditation on two contrary events in the author’s life. Guiding a client to the summit of Mount Vinson, Antarctica’s highest [...]

The epigraph to Rough, from The Hobbit—“There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, but it is not always quite the something you were [...]

  Howard Norman reminds us that “to the Cree, stories are animate beings” and that if nourished properly they are like good friends, aiding our good living throughout our lives. In Storying [...]

We meet Sylvie, the protagonist of Leona Theis’s third book, If Sylvie Had Nine Lives, in 1974, two nights before her wedding day in Ripley, Saskatchewan. She’s 19 and ambivalent about her [...]

  Jeff Rubin has always been an outlier. Traditionally, bank economists are careful folks, perusing data from StatsCan to make forecasts on regional growth rates or unemployment. Rubin, who [...]

Now more than ever, the pressures of working on wicked problems such as climate change, poverty, racism and public health are immense. Indeed, a recent Alberta Ecotrust survey of environmental [...]

It’s easy to read the two main characters of Vivek Shraya’s The Subtweet as archetypes. On one hand, we have Neela, the capital-A artist who cares more about authenticity than popularity. On the [...]

Benjamin Perrin’s Overdose is the first book in Canada to address a public health emergency that has claimed the lives of over 16,000 Canadians. After the Yukon and BC, Alberta has the [...]

Northern Alberta author Katie Bickell sets her debut novel, Always Brave, Sometimes Kind, mainly in Fort McMurray, Edmonton and Sherwood Park. Her characters travel the Yellowhead Highway, cross [...]

17 Roadblocks to Self-Determination, and One Chief’s Thoughts on Solutions