Trump, bullies and Canadian civil society

“In this Q&A, Max Cameron (left) speaks about toxic polarization, resource extraction, Indigenous resistance and the emotions required for democracy. FULL STORY

AUTHORS & BOOKS

The fishwife

Born and raised on the prairies, Margot Fedoruk knew little about seafood. That all changed when she went to BC… FULL STORY

Librarian, musician and cat photographer, Hazel Jane Plante has released her second novel, Any Other City (Arsenal Pulp $22.95), a… FULL STORY

Mermaid of the Pacific

For over 25 years, Amanda Swinimer has hand harvested seaweed off the west of Vancouver Island, supplying health food stores… FULL STORY

North Pacific borderlands

Recently retired SFU history prof, Andrea Geiger has written Converging Empires: Citizens & Subjects in the North Pacific Borderlands, 1867-1945,… FULL STORY

Avast ye matey!

Under the Banner King of Death (Beacon Press $17.95), by David Lester (at right) & Marcus Rediker, features an African… FULL STORY

Coal Creek magic

Often tackling historical subjects far removed from main urban centres, Victoria’s Wayne Norton has returned to one of his favourite… FULL STORY

Horror and rage

Channeling the gothic horror stories of Mary Shelley, the Bronte sisters, Henry James and others, Erica McKeen has released her… FULL STORY

Seeing the forest

A few years back, suffering from burn-out and too many hours hunched over a desk, over-achieving editor Amanda Lewis pledged… FULL STORY

Mini-comic king

Colin Upton, a veteran of the Vancouver comics and Lowbrow art scenes for more than 30 years, will release in… FULL STORY

Competing cultures

Completing her Creative Writing MFA while working as a communications manager at UBC’s Faculty of Arts, Emi Sasagawa is set… FULL STORY

West Coast design

During the Covid 19 pandemic, “our yards became our parks and our living rooms became our art galleries,” writes Julia… FULL STORY

Benson and Bennie

It has been five years since Kevin Chong wrote his last novel, The Plague (Arsenal Pulp, 2018) inspired by Albert… FULL STORY

Not hockey

Angie Abdou wrote about her experiences as a hockey mom, frankly describing her young son’s sporting experiences on and off… FULL STORY

Damon and the crow

In her YA graphic novel, Visions of the Crow (Highwater Press $23.95), volume one in the series Dreams, Wanda John-Kehewin… FULL STORY

Alienated teens

Gurjinder Basran takes on the perils of social media in her third novel, Help! I’m Alive (ECW $22.95). When video… FULL STORY

An island tragedy

Born and raised in Barbados, Jasmine Sealy is now based in Vancouver where she has written her debut novel, The… FULL STORY

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