#280 From Beurling to Bashow
All the Fine Young Eagles: In the Cockpit with Canada’s Second World War Fighter Pilots (updated and expanded second edition)… FULL STORY
Author Archive
The Random Ambassador
Wendy Morton started the Random Acts of Poetry movement, which encourages poets across Canada to read poems and give copies… FULL STORY
The wisdom of Solomon
Joel Solomon has befriended founders of Greenpeace, Hollyhock, TIDES and Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream; and he has backed Mayor… FULL STORY
#279 The wisdom of Solomon
The Clean Money Revolution: Reinventing Power, Purpose, and Capitalism by Joel Solomon with Tyee Bridge Gabriola Island: New Society Publishers,… FULL STORY
#278 Trotsky’s locomotive out of steam
The Locomotive of War: Money, Empire, Power, and Guilt by Peter Clarke London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017. $40.00 / 9781408851654 Reviewed… FULL STORY
The new turf of Indigenous Lit
From Oral to Written: A Celebration of Indigenous Literature in Canada, 1980-2010 celebrates the rise of a new literary genre;… FULL STORY
#277 The new turf of Indigenous Lit
From Oral to Written: A Celebration of Indigenous Literature in Canada, 1980-2010 by Tomson Highway Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2017 $29.95 / … FULL STORY
#276 How a whistleblower dies
Alan Fry (1931-2018) “I have said more than once in frustration that if I had the power of God, I… FULL STORY
#275 Unsolved murders revisited
No Dog Barked: Who Killed the MacLauchlans? (Archives New West $30) by Rob Drown and Ken McIntosh 978-1-7750952-1-7 reviewed by… FULL STORY
Paranormal gets its due
There have been ghost collections before Shanon Sinn’s new book; and there will be more after. Reviewer Carol Anne Shaw… FULL STORY
#274 Spooks, not kooks
The Haunting of Vancouver Island: Supernatural Encounters with the Other Side by Shanon Sinn Victoria: TouchWood Editions, 2017. $20 / … FULL STORY
Federation fest at New West
New West Festival of Words is a collaboration of the Federation of BC Writers’ Spring Writes Festival and LitFest New… FULL STORY
#273 A tale of two colonies
Settler Anxiety at the Outposts of Empire: Colonial Relations, Humanitarian Discourses, and the Imperial Press by Kenton Storey Vancouver: UBC… FULL STORY
Invalidating Judge McEachern’s folly
President of the Gitxsan-Wet’suwet’en Tribal Council in the 1980s, Neil J. Sterritt has recalled his essential role in successful land… FULL STORY
#272 Beyond McEachern’s folly
Mapping My Way Home: A Gitxsan History by Neil J. Sterritt Smithers: Creekstone Press, 2016 $29.95 / 9781928195023 Reviewed by… FULL STORY
Bowen & Mexico
Formerly the editor of the Bowen Island Undercurrent for seventeen years, as well as the author of a history of… FULL STORY
#271 Birding hotspots of B.C.
Best Places to Bird in British Columbia by Russell Cannings and Richard Cannings Vancouver: Greystone Books, 2017. $22.95 / 9781771641661… FULL STORY
#270 Starchitects, 1886 onwards
Canada: Modern Architectures in History by Rhodri Windsor Liscombe and Michelangelo Sabatino London: Reaktion Books, 2016. £20.00 / 9781780236339 Reviewed… FULL STORY
A plague on our houses
Joan Givner compares Kevin Chong’s The Plague, set in Vancouver, with Albert Camus’ work of the same name published seventy… FULL STORY
#269 A plague on our houses
The Plague (Arsenal Pulp $19.95) by Kevin Chong review by Joan Givner * A classic French text invigorates a new… FULL STORY
