#320 An East Vancouver childhood
Dear Current Occupant: A Memoir by Chelene Knight Toronto: BookThug, 2018 $20 / 9781771663908 Reviewed by Jennifer Chutter * Amidst… FULL STORY
Author Archive
Feed your head. Save your dime.
A B.C. guys visits every country on the planet in a mere 23 years, without a camera, to discover, “Good… FULL STORY
#319 King of the back packers
The World’s Most Travelled Man: A Twenty-Three Year Odyssey to and through Every Country on the Planet by Mike Spencer… FULL STORY
Chinese Cultural Revolution revisited
As Katherine Luo makes clear in her memoir, The Unceasing Storm, it mostly ruined Chinese lives instead. The Unceasing Storm:… FULL STORY
#318 A witness to persecution in China
The Unceasing Storm: Memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution by Katherine Luo, foreword by Madeleine Thien Madeira Park: Douglas &… FULL STORY
#317 Channeling Camus
The Plague by Kevin Chong Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2018. $19.95 / 9781551527185 Reviewed by Michael Kluckner * A 1947… FULL STORY
Indominatible Aquarianism
It is the dawning of the aging of Aquarius. For her second book, Helen Wilkes has encouraged people who are… FULL STORY
Bering up nicely
Stephen R. Bown’s account of the doomed expedition of Vitus Bering, Island of the Blue Foxes, was the lone B.C.-published book… FULL STORY
Hughes renewed by Amos
Even though the reclusive Hughes looked like Thomas Hardy, he became a star in his eighties. * “B.C. is the… FULL STORY
#316 Nak’adli Nation honours Kw’eh
Remembering Chief Kw’eh compiled by Lillian Sam and Frieda Klippenstein Fort St. James: Nak’azdli Whut’en Press, 2016 $10 / 9780995286900… FULL STORY
From props to hot properties
A Malaspina grad is now one of the country’s most sought-after sculptors. Review by Maria Tippett. Life and Bronze: A… FULL STORY
#315 From props to hot properties
Life and Bronze: A Sculptor’s Journal by Ruth Abernethy Vancouver: Granville Island Publishing, 2016. $60 / 9781926991733 Reviewed by Maria… FULL STORY
#314 E.J. Hughes renewed
“B.C. is the best place in the world for landscape subject matter.” — E.J. Hughes “One of the main reasons… FULL STORY
#313 Doreen Armitage (1931-2018)
Born in Toronto on August 14, 1931, Doreen Alice Ellen (Hayes) Armitage died at Lions Gate Hospital in North Vancouver… FULL STORY
#312 Home words bound
The Language of Family: Stories of Bonds and Belonging by Michelle van der Merwe (editor) Victoria: Royal British Columbia Museum,… FULL STORY
Richard Wagamese’s third solitude
Reviewer Eldon Yellowhorn concludes Indian Horse “is the composition that will forever evoke the name Richard Wagamese.” Indian Horse By… FULL STORY
#311 Going to the dogs
I fought the law, and the dog won The Dog Lover Unit: Lessons in Courage from the World’s K9 Cops… FULL STORY
Christy Clark’s downfall
Rob Shaw and Richard Zussman claim that Christy Clark was also unable to convince L.G. Judith Guichon to send voters… FULL STORY
#310 The Third Solitude
Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese Madeira Park: Douglas & McIntyre, 2018 $21.95 / 9781771621908 Reviewed by Eldon Yellowhorn * First… FULL STORY
#309 Christy Clark’s downfall
A Matter of Confidence: The Inside Story of the Political Battle for BC by Rob Shaw and Richard Zussman Victoria:… FULL STORY
