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. [...]
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 [...]
In 1773 Phillis Wheatley, a Black woman who had been enslaved in Africa and taken to America, published a volume of poetry, barely out of her teens. She was the first Black person in the US (and [...]
The book launch for the 2020 annual Frontenac House Poetry Quartet, which the publisher is calling its “COVID quartet,” was understandably virtual. So, in honour of the wine and cheese [...]
We Remember the Coming of the White Man is an extraordinary, educational account told by Sahtú and Gwich’in Dene Elders who witnessed the meeting of two worlds—Indigenous and settler—at the dawn [...]
