Drabek returns to Prague for launch
Jan Drabek’s biography of Vladimir Krajina, the World War Czech Resistance hero and founder of B.C.’s Ecological Reserve Program and… FULL STORY
AUTHORS & BOOKS
Barefoot pleasures
Walking barefoot on grass. A hand to hold. Bannock baking in the oven. Written to support the wellness of aboriginal… FULL STORY
Ray’s spectrum
In 1973, the Supreme Court’s historic Calder decision on the Nisga’a community’s title suit in British Columbia launched the First… FULL STORY
Many solitudes
A professor emerita of anthropology at UBC, Elvi Whittaker has edited a collection of essays about isolating experiences of women… FULL STORY
Hail to thee, Blythe spirit
Identity politics and duality are the concerns voiced in Twoism (Gooose Lane 2015), the first poetry collection by poet Ali… FULL STORY
A Woman of Note duly noted
Carol M. Cram of Bowen Island is one of three B.C. writers whose books will now be marketed by Thomas… FULL STORY
The Native Voice is heard again
Eric Jamieson has written an important history of The Native Voice newspaper, a hugely influential periodical about the fight for… FULL STORY
Hurting himself getting macho
J. David Cox humourously states he is a member of only one organization: President of Anarchy International (no members, no… FULL STORY
Beautiful Yankees & Mets
Baseball aficionado Randall Wayne McLean recalls his visit to Cooperstown and his 9/11 experiences in New York in his multi-faceted… FULL STORY
Hurray for Harvoni
For forty years Kim Goldberg never told anyone she had Hepatitis C. She railed against doctors and Big Pharma. Then… FULL STORY
How to dump Trump
As president of his own Public Relations company and also chair of the David Suzuki Foundation board, James Hoggan argues… FULL STORY
Raven ever more
With her business partner Glenna Collett, book designer Fiona Raven of Vancouver-based Fiona Raven Book Design has self-published Book Design… FULL STORY
Kim Fu
Her debut collection of poems How Festive the Ambulance (Nightwood $18.95) is filled with incantations, mythical creatures and extreme violence…. FULL STORY
Merton’s Noonday Demon
A self-described post-denominational Anglican, and an interfaith-oriented Christian, longtime Vancouverite Donald Grayston retired in 2004 from Simon Fraser University in… FULL STORY
Ecopoetics of a Shepherd
Kelly Shepherd wrote five poetry chapbooks prior to Shift (Thistledown 2016), a collection of poems in which he explores human… FULL STORY
Full Nelson
Born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan in 1949, Donna Macdonald grew up in a Father Knows Best family. Her mother was… FULL STORY
Over-scheduled Andrew
You don’t have to look very far to find ambitiously earnest parents who are eliminating play from the child’s agenda…. FULL STORY
Kat’s catalogue
A self-described country girl at heart, Kat Rose prefers a non-urban lifestyle in Langley that includes her dog and her… FULL STORY
Kirkby X 3
To improve wildlife habitat on Vancouver Island, the Nile Creek – Qualicum Bay Watershed Renewal Program is a collaboration between… FULL STORY
Liverpudlian lit
To outsiders, it might appear that the remarkably productive Mother Tongue Press on Salt Spring Island must be a one-person… FULL STORY
