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If a photograph only captures reality for, let’s say, 1/500th of a second, how can it represent history? That’s the challenge of Borderlands, a new black-and-white collection from Calgary [...]

One Tory's Lonely Fight to End Poverty in Canada

The late, great Alberta naturalist and bear expert Charlie Russell wrote several compellingly transformative books—Spirit Bear, Grizzly Heart and Grizzly Seasons—each of them enriched with [...]

Morgan Murray’s debut novel, Dirty Birds, hints at being loosely biographical from the start, when the rural Alberta born and raised Murray introduces us to Milton Ontario, a diffident small-town [...]

Thousands remained homeless in spite of Alberta’s 10-year plan. Then the pandemic came.

Poetry is not an expression of the party line,” according to Allen Ginsberg. “It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what [...]

30,000 ring-necks raised and released for sport

Inner-city urban challenges abound, but "people look out for their neighbours."

                      As the English novelist P.D. James once noted, literature is full of works driven by an unanswered question—often [...]

Given the popular myth that Alberta’s social landscape is dominated by political conservatism, Tessa Jordan’s comprehensive history of the periodical Branching Out, a feminist initiative [...]