What is a human being? The Enlightenment Age, also known as the Age of Reason, foregrounded humanity’s natural autonomy, in stark contrast to earlier periods where human beings were seen as entirely beholden to religious ... Read More »
September 2, 2026 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books
Invoking deep histories of hardship and inherited family legacies, Amanda Peters’s sophomore novel is at home in the postmodern literary tradition of the East Coast. Less gothic-adjacent than some regional stories, The Birthing Tree elicits ... Read More »
August 26, 2026 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Indigenous Peoples, Reviews
“Do women walk differently than men?” This is the opening question of Women, Walking: Notes on Lives in Motion, an anthology that suggests walking can be so much more than a simple method of getting ... Read More »
August 19, 2026 | Filed under: Anthologies, Memoir & Biography, Reviews, Social Sciences
There is a unique language to every neighbourhood and My Neighborhood, written by Delano Brown and illustrated by Briana Mukodiri Uchendu, perfectly captures the nature of one community. An unnamed boy is picked up from ... Read More »
August 19, 2026 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books
I Am Indigenous, written by Anne Tenning, a member of the Stz’uminus First Nation, and illustrated by 13 Indigenous artists from across what is now called North America, celebrates the diversity of Indigenous identities both ... Read More »
August 12, 2026 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books
Nyla and Sima’s family, like many Inuit families, is spending the winter in outpost camps. For Nyla and Sima, the days indoors are long, and they pass the time by playing string games. The two ... Read More »
August 5, 2026 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books
Poet and essayist Theresa Kishkan was just 23 when she met painter Jack Wilkinson at an art opening on Vancouver Island. Wilkinson, who was the same age as her father, became enchanted by her. “Was ... Read More »
July 29, 2026 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Memoir & Biography, Reviews
Whenever You Are, the new novel from prize-winning Alberta writer Martine Leavitt, is rooted in a compelling premise: 17-year-old Clemence, an aspiring poet, is nearing the end of his incarceration at “Training School,” a youth ... Read More »
July 29, 2026 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books
In DerRic Starlight’s memoir, the Gemini Award–winning puppeteer and comedian is our guide to a world few would choose to enter by choice: life on the streets of Calgary, Edmonton, and Lethbridge. See-Me Street: My ... Read More »
July 22, 2026 | Filed under: Indigenous Peoples, Memoir & Biography, Reviews
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