Grandmother
Sharp Notions
Essays from the Stitching Life
Many Mothers, Seven Skies
Scenes for Tomorrow
Searching for Happy Valley
A Modern Quest for Shangri-La
Wan
Fans of Rachel Cusk’s much-acclaimed fiction might be intrigued by this debut novel from Toronto-based writer Dawn Promislow, author of one previous short-story collection. As with Cusk’s [...]
Blue Portugal and Other Essays
The essay is an accommodating form; it can take on almost any subject. Essays also, according to the author of this new collection, “braid and weave and assemble patterns.” They may contain [...]
Under the Nakba Tree
Fragments of a Palestinian Family in Canada
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 [...]
Avenue of Champions
Given that Edmonton has the second-largest urban Indigenous population in the country, it astounds me that it took me a lifetime of reading Alberta books to encounter a story like Conor Kerr’s [...]
“Tin-Pot Childcare” Lives On?
Alberta falls short of the national vision