Romance
Flicker
The star of the show, strangely, is Calgary itself
Image Decay
Reflections flickered past like frames of old movie film.
Dirty Birds
Morgan Murray’s debut novel, Dirty Birds, hints at being loosely biographical from the start, when the rural Alberta born and raised Murray introduces us to Milton Ontario, a diffident small-town [...]
The Empress of Idaho
I loved Edmonton author Todd Babiak’s The Empress of Idaho. Set in Monument, Colorado, it features all the hallmarks of a small-town America coming-of-age story in the late ’80s, complete with [...]
Three Graphic Novels about Alberta
Albertans of all ideological persuasions know these are strange times: anecdote supplants evidence; social media platforms bring us hyper-partisan news; and experts, despite their research record [...]
To Me You Seem Giant
Greg Rhyno’s debut novel, which takes place in the mid-1990s and 10 years later, amounts to a painfully effective exercise in nostalgia. In keeping with a cassette-tape theme, the timelines are [...]
History of the Fantasy
How the enthusiasms of the day shape our notions of what Banff is.