Vicki Laveau-Harvie was raised on a ranch near Okotoks, though she left as soon as she could, eventually settling in Australia. Now in her 70s, she has published her first book, a memoir of her [...]
In Mark Lisac’s engaging new mystery, his second novel after a long career as a political journalist, Edmonton lawyer George Rabani reopens a client’s sale of his personal photo collection to the [...]
In Tom Wayman’s latest collection, Watching a Man Break a Dog’s Back, the long-time poet writes movingly of the natural world and confronts what he sees as “a surging lack of empathy” in today’s [...]
The Adventures of Isabel begins with a bleak scene. Broke, depressed and grown listless after being laid off from her job as a social worker, a queer protagonist and narrator is asked to [...]
In Democracy in Canada, the dean of Canadian public administration has set his sights on one of the most pernicious forces eroding our national institutions: regionalism. Donald Savoie’s thesis [...]
Imagine, if you can envision such a thing, a crowded dinner party—the table strewn with brightly coloured dishes brimming with foods from around the world. The host is pounding on the table [...]
Edmonton writer Dolly Dennis’s second novel, The Complex Arms, tracks the lives of an eccentric coterie of characters who comprise a tenuous community of renters in a four-storey walk-up in the [...]
Anyone curious about the democratic experiment has noticed unprecedented developments in electoral politics. Negativity, fear-mongering and scandal have long been with us, but the 2019 federal [...]