#46 Fifteen stories, 94 calls to action
REVIEW: In This Together: Fifteen Stories of Truth & Reconciliation By Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail Victoria: Brindle & Glass 2016 $19.95 / 9781927366448… FULL STORY
Author Archive
Fernie fiasco results in book and opera
Prejudice led to the hanging, in 1923, of Fernie-based bootlegger Emilio Picariello and Filumena Lassandro. REVIEW: The Rise and Fall… FULL STORY
Queer, trans & incendiary
Editor Zena Sharman’s “moving and incendiary” LGBTQ anthology, The Remedy: Queer and Trans Voices on Health and Health Care (Arsenal… FULL STORY
#45 Emilio & Filumena: Fernie opera
REVIEW: The Rise and Fall of Emilio Picariello By Adriana A. Davies (Fernie: Oolichan Books, 2016) $19.95 / 978-0-88982-318-1 Reviewed… FULL STORY
#44 He shoots, he misses
REVIEW: The Hockey Scribbler by George Bowering Toronto: ECW Press, 2016. $19.95 / 9781770412897 Reviewed by Bruce McDougall * If… FULL STORY
#43 Stroke and distance
REVIEW: The Defiant Mind by Ron Smith Ronsdale Press, 2016 $22.95 / 978-1-55380-480-2 * Just eight months after being felled… FULL STORY
Iron Man, tender heart
Dan Dunaway’s YA novel Heart Like a Wing (Ronsdale $11.95) is a sensitive portrayal of a prairie girl, Briony, with… FULL STORY
Oppenheim not Oppenheimer
Whereas Louis Oppenheim, from Poland, married Nukwa of the Nlaka’pamux people. Now his great-granddaughter has retrieved her mixed-race heritage. Bonnie… FULL STORY
#42 Oppenheim: not Oppenheimer
ESSAY: Bonnie Campbell assumed she was English. As a young adult she was surprised to learn that her grandmother was… FULL STORY
Dawson City or bust
Robert McCandless reviews the Klondike recollections of a 24-year-old gold-seeker. REVIEW: All for the Greed of Gold: Will Woodin’s Klondike… FULL STORY
#41 Dance me to the end of love
REVIEW: The Dancehall Years by Joan Haggerty (Mother Tongue $23.95) by Tom Shandel * Joan Haggerty has always been in… FULL STORY
#195 Jim Wong-Chu
LOCATION: 311 East 41st Avenue, Vancouver Here Jim Wong-Chu did most of his writing for Chinatown Ghosts, the first commercially… FULL STORY
First Nations connecting through stories
It’s not often you find the writings of a teenager lumped in with those of a man serving a life… FULL STORY
Grappling with human extremes
A former money manager and financial journalist, Richard Osler turned to writing poems in 2001. His latest collection Hyaena Season… FULL STORY
Bad decisions and misconceptions
While most people prefer happy endings, Carleigh Baker produces a batch of stories with uncomfortable, unexpected and outright strange endings… FULL STORY
#195 Madeleine Thien
LOCATION 245 East Broadway, Vancouver Before Ricepaper went digital-only in 2016, this was the main editorial address of the publication… FULL STORY
#40 Klondike greed creed deeds
REVIEW: All for the Greed of Gold showcases Will Woodin’s 1898 bone-chilling journey to Dawson City over the Tutchi Trail…. FULL STORY
One man’s passion for Passchendaele
But Alan MacLeod’s Great Canadian Statue Hunt required dedication and stamina. Having had a great uncle who fought in World War… FULL STORY
Thien takes Giller
Madeleine Thien’s third novel, Do Not Say We Have Nothing (Knopf), has won the $100,000 Scotiabank Giller Prize after having… FULL STORY
#39 From Quilchena Creek to Flanders
ESSAY: For Remembrance Day, Michael Sasges has reconstructed the life of Nicola Valley rancher John Foster Paton Nash. There are… FULL STORY
