#38 Fact, Myth, and Powerpoint
REVIEW: Paid Price: The Fight for First Nations Survival by Bev Sellars Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2016 $19.95 / 9780889229723 Reviewed by… FULL STORY
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Melanoma miracle
Claudia Cornwall’s Battling Melanoma outlines a triumph over “the fog of medicine.” An emotional upheaval can follow a diagnosis of… FULL STORY
#37 AWOL in IKEA
REVIEW: Renovation or teardown: He loves me, he loves me not. Clea Young’s Teardown succeeds by revealing how scarey and… FULL STORY
A dead land tainted
Journey to the Rift (Ink Smith Publishing 2016) is the first volume of a prequel to Cathi Shaw’s young adult… FULL STORY
#36 Eelgrass, cement and serenity
REVIEW: Tod Inlet: A Healing Place By Gwen Curry Victoria: Rocky Mountain Books, 2015. $25. ISBN 9781771600767 Reviewed by Peter… FULL STORY
Kogawa House saved — again
Joy Kogawa House, at 1450 West 64th Avenue, in the Marpole district of Vancouver, has been saved–once again. This house… FULL STORY
Witness fitness
Nightwood Editions’ author Gregory Scofield has won the $25,000 Latner Writers’ Trust Poetry Prize for a poet in mid-career in… FULL STORY
Go away, I’m reading
Kidlit author K.L. Denman’s latest title is Quiz Queens (Orca Currents $9.95) about boy-crazy Kiara who convinces her studious pal Jane… FULL STORY
A dragon road and three souls
Drawing upon her family’s 36 generations as inspiration for her historical stories, Taiwanese-born Janie Chang’s upcoming second novel Dragon Springs Road… FULL STORY
Beyond Relinquishing
To kick-start the University of Regina’s new venture called Oskana Poetry & Poetics, series editor Jan Zwicky has released her… FULL STORY
Indian Arm, stage to page
A contemporary adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s Little Eyolf, Hiro Kanagawa’s play Indian Arm (Playwrights Canada 2016) is set at the… FULL STORY
Aloha Wanderwell, tomboy starlet
Bonnie Reilly Schmidt looks at her fascinating biography. REVIEW: Aloha Wanderwell: The Border-Smashing, Record-Setting Life of the World’s Youngest Explorer…. FULL STORY
Sellars returns to Bestsellers
Bev Sellars won the 2014 George Ryga Award for Social Awareness for her book They Called Me Number One: Secrets… FULL STORY
Courage in Damascus
Deborah Campbell’s second book, A Disappearance in Damascus: A Story of Friendship and Survival in the Shadow of War (Knopf… FULL STORY
What Pauline couldn’t say
Janet Rogers, according to George Elliott Clarke, Parliamentary Poet Laureate (2016-17), “is as fearless as an eagle feather and as… FULL STORY
#35 Aloha Wanderwell, tomboy starlet
REVIEW: Idris Hall transformed herself into a globe-trotting celebrity as Aloha Wanderwell. Bonnie Reilly Schmidt looks at her fascinating biography…. FULL STORY
Hannah and her sisters
The homesteading letters of Hannah Kirby and her brother Murdoch reveal the delights and drudgery of Fraser Valley pioneering at… FULL STORY
#34 Hannah and her sisters
The homesteading letters of Hannah Kirby and her brother Murdoch reveal the delights and drudgery of Fraser Valley pioneering at… FULL STORY
The future is backward
As Tom Jones might have said, go big or go home. As a follow-up to his first graphic novel Toshiko… FULL STORY
A passion for Passchendaele
It wasn’t exactly Steve Fonyo running all the way across Canada. But Alan MacLeod’s Great Canadian War Statue Search required… FULL STORY
