Hoaxes and lies
A hoax isn’t always a lie meant to deceive or wound, it can also exert a positive influence argues Heather… FULL STORY
AUTHORS & BOOKS
Celebrity images
Working on a postdoctoral fellowship at SFU, Katja Lee wrote Limelight: Canadian Women and the Rise of Celebrity Autobiography ( Wilfrid Laurier… FULL STORY
I is for Itineraries
After forty years as a UBC political science professor, Philip Resnick offers his reflections on academic freedom and key political… FULL STORY
Working at Woodward’s
In her third book, Food Floor: My Woodward’s Days (Madrona Books $15.95) Margaret Cadwaladr recounts working as a grocery cashier… FULL STORY
Not okay
Jaye simpson, who identifies as non-binary has written their first collection of poetry and prose, it was never going to be… FULL STORY
Adventuring grizzlies
Judy Hilgemann wrote and illustrated the kidlit book, The Great Grizzlies Go Home (Harbour $23.95) about two grizzlie bears that… FULL STORY
From poetry to hockey
Not many poets can claim to have poetry collections in esteemed journals as well as hockey columns in sports magazines…. FULL STORY
Y is for Yusuf
Examining poetic visions and traditions in his debut poetry collection, Pluviophile (Nightwood $18.95) Yusuf Saadi works with form, imagery and… FULL STORY
H is for Ho
Masquerade, a story by Wiley Ho of North Vancouver, has been selected by novelist Eileen Cook as the winning entry… FULL STORY
The in-between space
Self-described on her website as “a white-passing, city-raised Indigenous woman with mental illness who has lost her mother,” Francine Cunningham… FULL STORY
Esi’s blog for Black women
As the author of The Second Life of Samuel Tyne, Half-Blood Blues and Washington Black, two-time Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning novelist… FULL STORY
Incantatory activism
In response to spoken word activist Jillian Christmas’s debut book, The Gospel of Breaking (Arsenal $14.95), novelist David Chariandy described… FULL STORY
Oscar Martens
Having had his fiction published for many years in journals such as the Malahat Review and Prairie Fire, Oscar Martens… FULL STORY
Leaving the mob
Fleeing from her mobster boyfriend, Bobbi Ricci takes off with his ex-driver and is travelling around B.C. and Alaska when… FULL STORY
Congo thriller
Thirst for Justice (ECW $22.95), due out in October is a political and legal thriller from North Pender Island author… FULL STORY
Frankly speaking
SFU Writer’s Studio teaching assistant, Jenn Ashton has written a collection of short stories, People Like Frank: and other stories… FULL STORY
Iran orphan
Vancouver writer Nazanine Hozar has been shortlisted for the Annual First Novel Award for her debut novel, Aria (Knopf Canada… FULL STORY
Slashburning in B.C.
At the age of seven, Nicholas Raeside helped put out a bushfire in his bare feet. While studying in high… FULL STORY
Curing stress
In her book The Mind-Body Cure (Greystone $24.95), due out in September, Dr. Bal Pawa shows how we can heal from… FULL STORY
Environmental hope
Scholar, educator and author Elin Kelsey has written Hope Matters: Why Changing the Way We Think Is Critical to Solving… FULL STORY
