The discourse about climate change, with some 3,000 books published in 2023 alone, is plainly overwhelming. Those hungering for a more palatable bite might sample Lorne Fitch’s Travels up the Creek, which focuses on environmental degradation in Alberta. Like other climate change books, this one aims for an awakening among readers. For…
Barbara Sibbald
Barbara Sibbald is a journalist and fiction writer who gets out in nature as often as possible.
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I have often thought of “foodie” as a recent coinage, linked to millennials and ever-changing fads like sous vide and lacto-fermentation. In fact, the descriptor appeared in 1980 and continues to evolve all these years later. During the COVID‑19 lockdowns, facing shuttered restaurants, many foodies left their kitchens and headed outdoors. According to a national…
Blond Bombshells
A selective, violent epidemic exposes our obsession with beauty’s dark roots September 2012
Blondes may have more fun, but in The Blondes, the satirical novel from Emily Schultz, they pay a hefty price: their sanity and their lives. Blondes—both bottle- and gene-based—are susceptible to a mysterious virus that turns the women into blond bombshells, with rabies-like symptoms that induce them to murder and mayhem. It is not a pretty…