“Lisa Martin’s Believing is not the same as Being Saved cleaves even closer to the holy, keeping religious motifs so near her natural language that they slip in unnoticed until they start to pile up, as in the various uses of the sword ‘saved’ in the title poem. Martin’s best poems have a knack for […]
Author: Monika Igali
I saw this post last year – A Bookstore Is Displaying All Books By Men Backward – and thought it to be a great post to share this year for International Women’s Day. It is a strong visual aid that illustrates the gender gap in publishing. So today, Cathie and I turned all male-authored or […]
Registration for the 2018 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences is now open! The Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences and the University of Regina invite you to Saskatchewan from May 26 to June 1 to take part in the largest academic gathering in Canada. Take advantage of the University of Regina’s Graduate […]
“The seven quirky stories in Gisèle Villeneuve’s new collection, Rising Abruptly,all have mountains at their heart…. The characters’ relationship with mountains evolves throughout the stories, creating an arc that models a romantic relationship: infatuation, the conflict between independence and commitment, and the acceptance of love coupled with death. Rising Abruptly is a literary ode to […]
Dr. Colleen Skidmore—author of Searching for Mary Schäffer: Women Wilderness Photography—gave a talk about the subject of her new book at the University of Alberta’s Mountain Festival on December 7, 2017. The event was hosted by Dr. PearlAnn Reichwein, author of the award-winning Climber’s Paradise. Mary Schäffer was a photographer, writer, botanical painter, and mapmaker from Philadelphia, […]
May the holidays and 2018 bring you many good reads! If you are looking for some ideas, here is a link to the best books of 2017 in the National Post. The 49th Shelf and Kerry Clare also have some suggestions. Iceland has the neatest Christmas tradition! Did you know about Jólabókaflóð or “The book flood of […]
“… Beach’s spare, poetic prose swept me away from the present world of mad dictators into a magical timeless realm like the sweet books of my childhood. I was transported and found myself rationing each page near the end, because I did not want to leave Beach’s fictional world. Highly recommended, even if you don’t like […]
Gisèle Villeneuve’s new short story collection continues to win major awards. Most recently, Rising Abruptly was announced as the winner of the Mountain Fiction & Poetry category at the Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival. The book also won the Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction [Writers’ Guild of Alberta], the Trade Fiction Book of the Year […]
“…Darryl Raymaker, has recently written an excellent book about Alberta and the Trudeaus, calledTrudeau’s Tango. In his compendious book, Raymaker reminds everyone that the Trudeau name has always been controversial in Alberta—but respected, too. The Trudeau name gave ‘Alberta Liberals hope,’ Raymaker writes. The father, then—like the son, now—’was a man for his time—new, youthful, […]
The staff of the University of Alberta Press had a treat on Monday: a visit to the Bruce Peel Special Collections! Linda Quirk, Assistant Special Collections Librarian, and Kevin Zak, Exhibitions & Collections Assistant, spent an hour showing us a range of treasures and telling us about the general operations of the Bruce Peel Special Collections […]