Michael Lithgow’s second poetry collection, Who We Thought We Were As We Fell, is not an easy read. If you are looking for blithe assurances that the world is a good place to be or that the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
