#78 Born to be wild
Hi Darlin’: Before we get started, let’s just note that I’m trying hard to overlook the fact it’s the anniversary… FULL STORY
Author Archive
Xerographer Onjana Yawnghwe
Xerography is a literary journal co-founded and co-edited by Onjana Yawnghwe, also co-founder of a ‘micro press’ for hand-made publications… FULL STORY
How rivers can remember
UBC expert has published an examination of the earth’s waterways with Princeton University Press, reviewed be B.C. estuary expert Colin… FULL STORY
#268 How rivers can remember
Where The River Flows: Scientific Reflections on Earth’s Waterways Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2017. $26.95 (U.S.). / 9781400885022 by… FULL STORY
#267 300 years of foolishness
Busted: An Illustrated History of Drug Prohibition in Canada by Susan C. Boyd Black Point, Nova Scotia, and Winnipeg: Fernwood,… FULL STORY
Stuart-Stubbs Prize for 2018
The Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize for Outstanding Scholary Book Prize on British Columbia will be awarded in May at UBC’s Irving… FULL STORY
B.C. astronomer gets his due
A new, 560-page biography is reviewed by John Hutchings who stargazed there for 51 years. It marks the 100th anniversary… FULL STORY
#266 Pioneering stargazer J.S. Plaskett
Northern Star: J.S. Plaskett by R. Peter Broughton with a foreword by James E. Hesser Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018…. FULL STORY
Crozier wins Woodcock Award
In June, Lorna Crozier will become the 25th recipient of the George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement for an outstanding literary career… FULL STORY
Surrey highlighted from 1850s to 1980s
In Surrey: A City of Stories, she has provided a well-researched, engaging, and inclusive historical overview of B.C.’s fast-growing city…. FULL STORY
#265 Surrey gets proper billing
Surrey: A City of Stories by K. Jane Watt Surrey: City of Surrey Heritage Services (Fenton Street Publishing), 2017. $25.00 … FULL STORY
#264 From John McCrae to Morrison
Morrison: The Long-lost Memoir of Canada’s Artillery Commander in the Great War. Major-General Sir Edward Morrison by Susan Raby-Dunne (editor)… FULL STORY
Georgia Straight endures & thrives
“Georgia Straight: A 50th Anniversary is a must-read for those interested in B.C. and Lower Mainland life in the last… FULL STORY
#263 Georgia Straight honoured
Georgia Straight: A 50th Anniversary Celebration by Doug Sarti and Dan McLeod, with an introduction by Bob Geldof and essays… FULL STORY
#262 Lillooet pithouses revisited
The Last House at Bridge River: The Archaeology of an Aboriginal Household in British Columbia During the Fur Trade Period… FULL STORY
Cold feet in Tatshenshini
The walker who came in from the cold is the subject of a new book that has already won the… FULL STORY
How do you like dem…
Gathie Falk was something of a late bloomer. Her Russian immigrant father died just ten months after she was born… FULL STORY
Wyss gets Indigenous storyteller post
Artist and ethnobotanist T’uy’t’tanat-Cease Wyss (right) has been named the 2018 Indigenous storyteller in residence at VPL as part of… FULL STORY
Lupick earns top non-fiction honour
“We need new ideas,” says Travis Lupick. “We need to begin talking about legalizing and regulating illicit narcotics. I don’t… FULL STORY
#261 Tatshenshini Man
Kwäday Dän Ts’ìnchi: Teachings from Long Ago Person Found by Richard J. Hebda, Sheila Greer, and Alexander Mackie (editors) Victoria:… FULL STORY
