Andrew Torry

May 1, 2024 | albertaviews.ca | Andrew Torry

The Premier and His Grandmother offers a compact and accessible history of the Métis people broadly, and of an important Métis family specifically.

Nov 19, 2023 | reviewcanada.ca | Josiah Neufeld |Andrew Torry

Josiah Neufeld opens his debut work of non-fiction, The Temple at the End of the Universe, with a disclaimer: “If you hope this book will lead you to spiritual truth, I am sorry, in advance.” The short story writer, essayist, and journalist — who lives in Winnipeg and won an Amnesty International Media Award in 2016 — explores the complex intersection of religion and environmentalism.

Jun 21, 2023 | reviewcanada.ca | Michelle Syba |Andrew Torry

The New Testament scholar James L. Resseguie described the Book of Revelation as having a master plot that depicts the deep spiritual struggles of seekers on the path toward a promised land. That quest is echoed in the title of Michelle Syba’s debut collection, End Times, which follows both Christian and non-religious protagonists as their beliefs are tested and their lives transformed. The author herself grew up in a Pentecostal home in Toronto before losing her faith.

Mar 1, 2023 | albertaviews.ca | Andrew Torry

A A A Novelist Margaret Macpherson wrote Tracking the Caribou Queen: Memoir of a Settler Girlhood to understand “the insidious ways systemic racism shaped my youth in Yellowknife” during the 1960s and 1970s.