End of life
Dr. Stefanie Green wrote the memoir This is Assisted Dying: A Doctor’s Story of Empowering Patients at the End of… FULL STORY
Author Archive
Veins of the Earth
In his new book about major North American rivers, UBC professor Eric Taylor shows why rivers are key to human… FULL STORY
Lee Maracle 1950 – 2021
One of the first Indigenous writers in Canada to publish fiction, Lee Maracle died at the age of 71 on… FULL STORY
Jewish twins in Interwar Poland
A three-time winner of the Helen & Stan Vine Canadian Jewish Book Awards for her poetry, Isa Milman has now… FULL STORY
The Cree word for …
UBC assistant professor, Dallas Hunt’s debut collection of poetry, Creeland (Nightwood $18.95) plunges readers into Indigenous lifeworlds with commonplace everyday… FULL STORY
Working through chronic pain
Starting a business is stressful. Combine that with chronic pain and the challenges ramp up even more for would-be entrepreneurs…. FULL STORY
Michael Audain: Builder of B.C.
Known as one of the province’s most generous art patrons, Audain overcame a difficult boyhood, volunteered for civil rights in… FULL STORY
Psychedelic psychiatry
Vancouver’s Jesse Donaldson (right) has co-authored with Saskatoon-based Erika Dyck, The Acid Room: The Psychedelic Trials and Tribulations of Hollywood… FULL STORY
Mines is Yiddish Book Center pick
“The Rivals” and Other Stories by Jonah Rosenfeld, translated from the Yiddish by Rachel Mines, has been selected by the… FULL STORY
The heartbreak of Fado music
New Westminster’s Portuguese Canadian playwright, Elaine Ávila has published her new play Fado: The Saddest Music in the World (Talonbooks… FULL STORY
Island Life
A couple on Saturna Island had to be “takers and makers of opportunities” says reviewer Christa Grace-Warrick, with jobs like… FULL STORY
Saving rivers
River conservationist and founder of both B.C. and World Rivers Day, Mark Angelo of Burnaby has published his first illustrated… FULL STORY
McLeod up for major prize
B.C. author, Darrel J. McLeod (at right) has been shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction for… FULL STORY
Ray Woollam (1927 – 2021)
Born on December 27, 1927, Ray Woollam taught school in Kispiox, B.C. and served as a United Church Minister in… FULL STORY
Tying up life’s loose ends
In Christina Myers’s second title, The List of Last Chances (Caitlin $22.95) her fictional character, thirty-something Ruthie is unemployed, newly… FULL STORY
Adventure on the savannah
Jon Turk’s fifth adventure narrative about being on the unforgiving savannah with a Samburu headman, Tracking Lions, Myth, and Wilderness… FULL STORY
What doesn’t kill you
In her seventh collection of poetry, Villa Negativa (Biblioasis $19.95), Sharon McCartney reflects on events such as a sibling’s death,… FULL STORY
Cornelia Oberlander (1921 – 2021)
She became one of the most celebrated landscape architects of the 20th century, undertaking more than 500 projects, including over… FULL STORY
Beliefs & ideals
UBC professor of gender and Islamic studies, Ayesha Chaudhry has written The Colour of God (Oneworld Publications $25) in response… FULL STORY
simpson up for award
Poet jaye simpson has been shortlisted for a 2021 Indigenous Voices award in the Published Poetry in English category for… FULL STORY
