ArticlesIssue 76, Spring/Summer 2020
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Non-Fiction
Lovely, luscious, and local Saskatchewan eats compiled in one handy book
Jenn Sharp’s new book, Flat Out Delicious: Your Definitive Guide to Saskatchewan’s Food Artisans, will be finding its way into the glove boxes and consoles of many vehicles heading out on the highway this summer. Along with sunblock and water bottles, this guide to good eating in Saskatchewan is destined to be an essential element of every road trip. -
Features
Three-year-old Regina press aims to increase their genres, publish more books in a year
There’s something about the wide-open prairies that fosters creativity. For Debra Bell, publisher and managing editor of Radiant Press, it makes Regina an apt place to publish great books. -
Young Adult/Children
An imagined program for young offenders to work with horses comes to life in teen novel
The teen years are often difficult even under the best of circumstances, but for Eugenia Grimm, whose father died by suicide, whose brothers are drifting away, and whose mother abandoned her, these years are particularly brutal. -
Young Adult/Children
‘What could be more exciting than an assassin riding a dragon?’ Slade asks in new fantasy tale
As young readers will find in Saskatoon-based Arthur Slade’s new middle-grade fantasy, you can’t keep a good assassin down. Slade grew up reading Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonriders of Pern books, and counts them as an inspiration for one of the central parts of Dragon Assassin, the first in a trilogy. -
Young Adult/Children
Teen’s relationship to social media changes when a big chatty bird enters her life
Saskatoon-based author Alice Kuipers’s latest novel for middle-grade readers is World’s Worst Parrot, which follows Ava, a teen who strives for the impression of perfection, and Mervin, an African grey parrot she inherited, as both of their lives go through major changes. -
Quand le virtuel rencontre le réel
À Junk City, personne ne fait cavalier seul. Personne ne gagne ou ne perd. Si les producteurs font faillite, les consommateurs quittent et la ville meurt. -
En Français
When virtual meets reality
In Junk City, there are no solitary knights. Nobody wins and nobody loses. If the producers go bankrupt, the consumers leave. And the city dies. -
En Français
Janus : Un chat à deux visages et de nouvelles perspectives
Un chat, une retraite, et un amour se profilent dans le nouveau livre de Lyne Gareau. Le Chat Janus nous raconte trois histoires. Le tout se passe en Colombie-Britannique, en français. -
En Français
Short story collection’s titular tale invokes two-faced cat and new perspectives
A cat, retirement, and love can all be found in the new collection of stories by Lyne Gareau. Le chat Janus shares three stories. All of them take place in British Columbia, in French. -
Dispatches
Where do I come from? Where am I going? Why am I here? Who am I? The Honourable Justice Senator Murray Sinclair identifies these existential questions as key to a child’s education. This is especially true for Indigenous students who live in a colonial society that continues to deny and reject the legitimacy of Indigenous worldviews and to erase Indigenous identity and presence.