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Memory Speaks
On Losing and Reclaiming Language and Self
Tags: autobiography, Book review, Julie Sedivy, Memory Speaks
September 1, 2022
Scratching River
The Métis diaspora, we are a braided river channel, a herd of bison on our way to the grasslands up the way, to our relations,” writes Michelle Porter in Scratching River, a literary memoir that emulates these deliberate, meandering movements over the land. Weaving together stories of her brother Brendon, her mother’s determination to find a […]
Tags: Book review, Memoir, Metis, Michelle Porter
Let’s Debate CanCon
…minus the conspiracy theories.
Tags: Alberta, Bill C-11, column, CRTC, on second thought, Paula Simons
Swollening
War. Pandemic. Environmental collapse. How is a poet supposed to make beauty out of all the ugliness? Edmonton poet Jason Purcell, in their debut poetry collection, Swollening, has found an answer—one as old as The Iliad or the Mahabharata. Look at the ugliness closely and with compassion. Swollening is a serious, painful book about serious, painful […]
Tags: Book review, Jason Purcell, poetry
Briefly Noted: September 2022
New Alberta books
Tags: beyond the gallery, book reviews, briefly noted, mother earth
The Annual Migration of Clouds
The Annual Migration of Clouds imagines the University of Alberta as the site of a self-sustaining community in a dystopic near-future: the labyrinthine BioSci building is now living quarters and people risk their lives to hunt wild pigs in the river valley. The result, the fifth book from Edmonton’s Premee Mohamed, is a promising start […]
Tags: book reviews, edmonton, fiction, Premee Mohamed, university of alberta
People Change
Our species has a complex relationship with change. From the moment we depart the womb (arguably our first major encounter with change), each new crossroads comes with a slew of anxieties and frustrations: What if I turn into someone I don’t want to be? What if the thing that’s changing me is external or cosmetic—new clothes, […]
Tags: Book review, Memoir, nonfiction, Vivek Shraya
July 4, 2022
The Shade Tree
Some histories bear revisiting, and the world of the southern States under Jim Crow laws comes sharply into focus in Theresa Shea’s The Shade Tree, recent winner of Canada’s Guernica Literary Prize. A trio of women are key, as Shea probes the culture and character of a Florida town in the 1930s and 1940s, where a […]
Tags: Book review, fiction, Guernica Literary Prize, Theresa Shea
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