Ezra’s Ghosts
After the terror attacks on New York City and Washington D.C., we saw novels influenced by that tragedy. Darcy Tamayose’s latest book may not be arriving with the same fanfare as the [...]
Winnipeg
The Canadian Vaccine Fiasco
Excerpted from “Neoliberal State Failure is Slowing Down Vaccine Distribution,” Jacobin #41, April 4, 2021
The Politics of the Canoe
When Justin Trudeau was photographed, by his carefully positioned media team, solo paddling a red canoe down the Bow River in Calgary on September 17, 2015, ostensibly travelling to a federal [...]
Humane
Early in Humane, following a vision-dream of her dead grandmother, Hazel Lesage steals a dog from an animal shelter. Hazel, an amateur detective, has agreed to try to find the killer of an [...]
Driven: The Secret Lives of Taxi Drivers
In Marcello Di Cintio’s latest book, the Calgary-based writer examines the criss-crossing paths and stories of Canadian taxi drivers. The result is an engrossing collection of vignettes that [...]
Online Learning
Post-secondary education’s great pandemic experiment
Relax, Dammit!
A User’s Guide to the Age of Anxiety
Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars?
Public Transit in the Age of Google, Uber, and Elon Musk
The Red Chesterfield, Broke City and The Apocalypse of Morgan Turner
As the English novelist P.D. James once noted, literature is full of works driven by an unanswered question—often [...]