Let the public rest assured: when a forty-plus-year-old novel is totally forgotten and remains obscure and hard to find, there’s a reason for that.
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As Long as This Land Shall Last: René Fumoleau’s history of Treaty 8 and Treaty 11
Here’s a rare thing: a history book written expressly for the Indigenous people of the N.W.T.
Jordin Tootoo’s All the Way: A hockey redemption story
“What? Really? I made it? I’m in the NHL? Holy fuck,” writes Jordin Tootoo in this 2014 autobiography. “The next thing you know, I was a household name in Nashville.”
In Saqiyuq, 3 oral histories read like great fiction — full of suspense, drama and revelations
This is, quite simply, an amazing book.
Boundless: Kathleen Winter takes a cruise
Apart from a scant few insights into the Arctic cruising industry, this book is not at all about the North. Mostly, it’s about Kathleen Winter.
The Mundane and the Holy: Libby Whittall Catling’s life on the land
Libby Whittall Catling is no Karl Ove Knausgaard. She refuses to cross the bar of common decency and write about her life in explosive detail. But this is still an absorbing and reflective book about a very distant corner of the N.W.T.
Georgia: An Arctic Diary offers sketches of life in Igloolik in 1982, with a central mystery
I’m weirdly fascinated by this book. More by its existence than its actual contents.
