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The Crash Palace
The Crash Palace reads like a greatest hits album of Alberta in the 2000s. Although the novel is short, Andrew Wedderburn takes us on a long journey across the province, from rough work camps in [...]
Who We Thought We Were As We Fell
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 [...]
Arguing with Zombies: Economics, Politics and the Fight for a Better Future
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 [...]
Sustainability Matters: Prospects for a Just Transition in Calgary, Canada’s Petro-City
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 [...]
You Have Been Referred: My Life in Applied Anthropology
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 [...]
our bodies’ unanswered questions
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 [...]
My Mother, My Translator
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 [...]