Beliefs & ideals
UBC professor of gender and Islamic studies, Ayesha Chaudhry has written The Colour of God (Oneworld Publications $25) in response… FULL STORY
AUTHORS & BOOKS
Merging the heart and mind
Susan McCaslin’s new collection of poems Heart Work (Ekstasis $24.95) continues her decades-long focus on contemplative poetry and social justice…. FULL STORY
Telecom in Canada
Internet companies have a lot of control over a technology that is increasingly vital to most Canadians for personal and… FULL STORY
Ode to loving
In her second collection of poems, blue gait (Mother Tongue $19.95) due out in October, shauna paull sings the praises… FULL STORY
Big Oil vs. democracy
U of Vic professor, William K. Carroll is the editor of Regime of Obstruction: How Corporate Power Blocks Energy Democracy… FULL STORY
Poetry at 90
“My early poems, written in my late twenties and thirties,” says Naomi Beth Wakan in Wind on the Heath (Shanti… FULL STORY
Witty advice from the dead
Former reporter, Tamara Vukusic of Kamloops has written obittersweet: Life Lessons from Obituaries (Mosaic Press $24.95), a collection of essays… FULL STORY
Guilt & innocence
At the start of WW2, a young German Canadian girl, Eva, living in the Okanagan, gets a new friend when… FULL STORY
Strange new world
Barbara Black’s genre-bending debut short story collection Music from a Strange Planet (Caitlin $22.95) deals with identity and emotional attachment,… FULL STORY
Rural nursing 1960s-style
In 1962, newly minted public health nurse Marion McKinnon was just 22 years old when she arrived in Williams Lake…. FULL STORY
Elvis is in the trailer park
Leslie Gentile of Brentwood Bay has published her debut kidlit novel Elvis, Me, and the Lemonade Stand Summer (Cormorant $13.95)… FULL STORY
Dear Ivan
For an inveterate traveler and performer like Ivan Coyote, the Covid-19 pandemic initially proved to be confining. The non-binary writer… FULL STORY
Mystery in the keynote of Beethoven
Novelist Melanie Jackson has written over 15 mysteries for young people, often using a theme like the five she titled… FULL STORY
The courageous parents
After two books of poetry and a chapbook, Nelson-based Jane Byers has written a memoir, Small Courage: A Queer Memoir… FULL STORY
Surviving a drunk driver
After getting hit head-on by a serial drunk driver as she was driving home to Nelson in 2013, performer, singer,… FULL STORY
A Syrian meal for cheer
Vancouver author, activist and former Syrian refugee, Danny Ramadan has published his first children’s book, Salma the Syrian Chef (Annick… FULL STORY
Oy Vey! shortlist
Susin Nielsen’s Princess Puffybottom and Darryl (Penguin Random House $21.99) has been shortlisted for a 2020 Joan Betty Stuchner –… FULL STORY
Heal thyself and your relationship
The Telling Method (Self-published $24.95), Robert Ziegler’s second novel, explores a relationship between two writers, both with mental health conditions,… FULL STORY
B.C. authors win First nation awards
Richard Van Camp (right) has won the 2020 CODE Burt Award in the English Language category (worth $6,000) for Moccasin… FULL STORY
The River Answers
Bowen Island poet Jude Neale’s eighth collection of poems, The River Answers (Ekstasis $23.95) is “full of questions that make… FULL STORY
