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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: Alberta, Alberta Views, Glen Huser, Midwifery, Theresa Shea, Wife
July 4, 2022
The Call of the Red-Winged Blackbird
Essays on the Common and Extraordinary
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Books, Alberta Views, Capitalism, Essays, Tim Bowling, Wolsak and Wynn
Blowing the Whistle
Speaking up must be protected.
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Energy Regulator, Alberta Views, Graham Thomson, Jim Ellis, Lawsuits, Press Gallery, Private Sector, Public Opinion, Salary, Whistleblowers, Wrongful Dismissal
A Kid Called Chatter
A child of mysterious provenance is born with supernatural powers. He has “followers” that he loves unconditionally. He provides his followers passage—shepherds them, if you will—from the earthly sphere into death. This messianic oddity is outcast, worshiped as a healer by some and scorned by others as heretical. You can probably see where this metaphor is […]
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Books, Alberta Views, Calgary, Edmonton, Great Depression, Resignation, University of Calgary Press
Flying Ant Buffet
In praise of dead trees.
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Geoff Holroyd, Kevin Van Tighem, Mountain Park
After the Golden Era
Who will save Alberta’s lakes?
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Alberta's Floodplains, Bonnyville, Coal Mining, Court of Queen's Bench, Drought, FOIP, Lorne Fitch, Railroad, Tourism, Transalta
Ezra’s Ghosts
After the terror attacks on New York City and Washington D.C., we saw novels influenced by that tragedy. Darcy Tamayose’s latest book may not be arriving with the same fanfare as the 9/11-influenced works by DeLillo, Messud or Auster, but like those authors she successfully captures the intimate, felt experience of a world-changing event. While only […]
Tags: COVID 19, University of Lethbridge, Winnipeg
Fast Commute
What happens when the entire landscape becomes a sacrifice zone? Or when we have so successfully insulated ourselves from the natural world around us that we actually believe we’re separate and above it? What does it say about us when every other species of life has been reduced to either décor or enemy? And what happens […]
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Consumerism, Essays, Laurie D. Graham, Urban Sprawl
Bucking Conservatism
Alternative Stories of Alberta from the 60s and 70s
Tags: Africa, Alberta, Alberta Views, Athabasca University Press, Calgary, Discrimination, Edmonton, Essays, Marion Nicoll, Saddle Lake Cree Nation, Sexuality, South Africa, The Raging Grannies
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