We Need to Do This

by Alexandra Zabjek,
reviewed by Lise Gotell

The Definition of Beautiful

by Charlotte Bellows,
reviewed by Jessica Waite

Paths of Pollen

by Stephen Humphrey,
reviewed by Jenna Butler

The Premier and His Grandmother

by Doris Jeanne MacKinnon,
reviewed by Andrew Torry

Burn Man

by Mark Anthony Jarman,
reviewed by Alex Rettie

Between Doom & Denial

by Andrew Leach,
reviewed by Junaid bin Jahangir

Amber Bracken

(“Run for the Children”) is a photojournalist known for reporting on Indigenous issues in North America. She was arrested in 2021 while covering pipeline protests in BC for The Narwhal, which is suing the RCMP on her behalf. In 2022 she won the World Press Photo of the Year for “Kamloops Residential School.”

Curtis Gillespie

(“Island Alberta”) has writen five books of fiction and non0fiction. He won the Danuta Gleed Literary Award in 1998 for his collection The progress of an Object in Motion. He founded Eighteen Bridges  and has won seven National Magazine Awards.

Tadzio Richards

(“Our Lobbyist Premier”) is the Associate Editor at Alberta Views.

Fred Stenson

(“Wit”) is a long-time columnist for  Alberta Views. He has published 20 books and is a two-time winner of the Grant MacEwan Author Prize.

Graham Thomson

(“On the Ledge”) has been covering Alberta politics for 30 years, first with the Edmonton Journal and now as a freelancer, and was twice embedded with Canadian troops in Afghanistan.