Love letter to a lost son
Tara McGuire was busy unpacking groceries in the kitchen, her daughter Lyla nearby deciding on a library book to read,… FULL STORY
AUTHORS & BOOKS
Junie
Vancouver once had a distinct Black community located off Main Street in the East End, close to the railway terminal… FULL STORY
Brucker up for prestigious kidlit award
Author and illustrator Glenn Brucker has been nominated for a Chocolate Lily Book Award for his children’s book, City Day (Douglas & McIntyre $22.95), which was… FULL STORY
Two-spirit, non-binary sadboy
Having performed at Talking Stick Festival, Verses Festival of Spoken Word, Canadian Festival of Spoken Word, and over 50 different… FULL STORY
Take a licking; keep on ticking
A rural British Columbian through and through, Kelly Randall Ricketts has worked in construction, logging, heavyweight boxing, fish guiding and… FULL STORY
Home is where Buddie is
It’s 1995, Whitehorse, Yukon and family counsellor Helen Cotillard is seeing her reluctant client, fifteen-year-old Gale who has been having… FULL STORY
Tales from an Ancient Indian feud
Since his childhood days in India, Manu Nellutla, who now lives in Surrey, BC has been interested in historical and… FULL STORY
Hammerhead mystery #3
Port Moody-based A.J. Devlin is set to release the third installment in his “Hammerhead” Jed mystery series, Five Moves of… FULL STORY
Translations of a medieval French poet
Considered one of France’s best-known poets of the 15th century, François Villon’s work reflected his criminal behaviour and time spent… FULL STORY
Fly fishing father
Avid fly-fisher, Mark Hume has logged thousands of hours over the last five decades standing in BC’s rivers, casting his… FULL STORY
Answer to Blue
D.H. Lawrence posed the question “Oh what in you can answer to this blueness?” and North Vancouver poet Russell Thornton… FULL STORY
The stone witch
Squamish-based Amber Cowie’s Last One Alive (Simon & Schuster $24.99) follows a team of researchers exploring the myth of a… FULL STORY
Superstitious sailors
Sailor, artist and author R. Bruce Macdonald worked on a tall ship when he was a young man. It was… FULL STORY
White Raven
Heiltsuk hereditary member Teoni Spathelfer’s first book, Little Wolf (Heritage House, 2021) is about a young Indigenous girl who moves… FULL STORY
The Vannini family
V is for Vannini After five years, 400 interviews and 250 ferry rides Phillip Vannini released Ferry Tales: Mobility, Place,… FULL STORY
DTES women photographed
In the late 1990s, Lincoln Clarkes, who had made his name as a fashion and celebrity photographer, began a five-year… FULL STORY
Fight for your right
Megan Clendenan has worked for women’s rights, mental health and youth empowerment nonprofits as well as an environmental law group,… FULL STORY
Indigenizing business
Businesses are increasingly confronted by Canada’s complicated relationship with Indigenous peoples. Where some see challenges, others see opportunity and Priscilla… FULL STORY
Confessional poems
Michelle Poirier Brown was 38 when she discovered she had a hidden indigenous identity. Coming to terms with her new… FULL STORY
Spiritual solace
Pondering life and death issues such as a child attempting suicide and large parts of North America burning in hellish… FULL STORY
