Attractions of the Alaska Highway
Six years and 8,113 kilometres in the making, Beyond Mile Zero documents the lodges and motels along the route. REVIEW: Beyond… FULL STORY
Author Archive
Denman Island anarchist mag
Hillel Wright has published the 30th anniversary issue of MiNUS TiDES international, a small literary magazine mainly from Denman and… FULL STORY
#170 Midwifery, bongos & blue boxes
Canadian Countercultures and the Environment by Colin M. Coates (editor) Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2016 $34.95 / 9781552388143 Reviewed… FULL STORY
#169 A hero in the garden
Some Useful Wild Plants: A Foraging Guide to Food and Medicine from Nature by Dan Jason Madeira Park: Harbour Publishing,… FULL STORY
Love and grandmothers is all you need
Powered by Love: A Grandmothers’ Movement to End AIDS in Africa will soon be published by Goose Lane on Oct…. FULL STORY
Canada’s founder of Punjabi theatre
Punjabi-born Ajmer Rode is a founding member of several Indo-Canadian literary and performing arts associations. He has written, directed and… FULL STORY
From French apple pies to bikers
Growing up in Lytton, journalist Peter Edwards’ claim to fame in the small interior town was winning the junior boys’… FULL STORY
Noteworthy hangings
Nancy J. Hughes’s second book, Found Art of the Clans Erskine & Holland 1710-1965 (Victoria: Wildflower Publishing House, 2017 $30)… FULL STORY
Why Edenshaw’s platters matter
Colin Browne examines why his depictions of Raven seeking female genitalia are integral to the Haida cosmological narrative Xuuya Kaagang˖ngas…. FULL STORY
Wild Wood
Robert Julian Wood has been a professional architect, a pioneering mountaineer, an organizer of ocean-to-alpine expeditions, an instructor of wilderness… FULL STORY
#168 Feminist shareholders meet
REVIEW: Making Room; Forty Years of Room Magazine by Meghan Bell and the Growing Room Collective (editors) Vancouver and Halfmoon… FULL STORY
Boraks-Nemetz at Jewish Book Fest
Lillian Boraks-Nemetz will launch her new adult novel at the 33rd annual Cherie Smith Jewish Book Festival in Vancouver at… FULL STORY
#167 Depths of Shaughnessy Heights
August 31st, 2017 The White Angel by John MacLachlan Gray Madeira Park: Douglas & McIntyre, 2017. $29.95 978-1-77162-146-5 Reviewed by… FULL STORY
#166 Edenshaw, Raven, and Fungus Man
REVIEW: Entering Time: The Fungus Man Platters of Charles Edenshaw by Colin Browne Vancouver: Talon Books, 2016 $19.95 / 9781772010398 Reviewed… FULL STORY
Rhythm & bruise
The rise of Vancouver-born Eliza Robertson has been meteoric. In 2013, Robertson accepted the Commonwealth Short Story Prize from John… FULL STORY
Cairo friendship amid chaos
Coleman Nye, as an assistant professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at SFU, has co-authored an unusual graphic novel,… FULL STORY
Here Be Dragons in Alberta
Carolyn Dale, a retired veterinarian and flight instructor, has self-published numerous mystery novels and an autobiography. A short story written… FULL STORY
Spiderman widens his web
Taking its title from a body of work by Sonny Assu, depicting Spiderman in a traditional Kwakwa̱ka̱’wakw style, When Raven… FULL STORY
Stuart-Stubbs Prize submissions
Call for Submissions THE BASIL STUART-STUBBS PRIZE FOR OUTSTANDING SCHOLARLY BOOK ON BRITISH COLUMBIA Established in memory of Basil Stuart-Stubbs,… FULL STORY
Highways to tell
Three veins of history are the Hope-Princeton, the forgotten Big Bend Highway and the Fraser Canyon. Review by Dan Francis…. FULL STORY
