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Along with Joseph Stiglitz, fellow Nobel laureate Paul Krugman is a voice of reason in the sea of mainstream neoclassical economics. His latest book, Arguing with Zombies, is mainly based on his [...]

Whether by serendipity or deliberate strategy, the timing of Noel Keough’s new book, Sustainability Matters: Prospects for a Just Transition in Calgary, Canada’s Petro-City, neatly coincided with [...]

In You Have Been Referred Michael Robinson shares some 30-plus tales from his unique and storied careers working in energy regulation, community consultation and with various NGOs. A Rhodes [...]

Confession: I do not read books of poetry from front to back—rather, I prefer to hunt and peck. This may do a disservice to poets who fret about the order of things. Apologies. But I do read [...]

Novelist and poet Jaspreet Singh’s latest book is for people who like memoirs—and, more exceptionally, for readers who are generally not fans of genre, too. This is because My Mother, My [...]

Reading Alternate Plains is like eating your way through a tasting platter at an experimental new restaurant. Some stories will be to your taste. Some will not. Maybe you’re more interested in a [...]

Italians first came to Alberta in the 1880s; sojourners who followed the promise of work. At that time, Canada judged Italians as unsuitable for settlement and classified them as “non-preferred [...]

Frontenac House has published its Quartet 2019, a suite of four books of poetry, as they’ve been doing annually since 2001. The release of four poetry books by four authors simultaneously is a [...]

I used to think that some young writer, looking for a way to finance a writing career, ought to craft a Christmas story, something along the lines of It’s A Wonderful Life, maybe, or Meet Me In [...]