The fire that decimated Vancouver
Vancouver is still a frontier town at dawn on June 13, 1886. Its main street is dirt. Residents don’t have… FULL STORY
AUTHORS & BOOKS
Literary Jamboree in Quesnel
Margaret-Anne Enders is one of thirty authors who will be gathering at the Quesnel library on Saturday, May 24, to… FULL STORY
Single blade runner
The stories in Doretta Lau’s debut collection, How Does A Single Blade of Grass Thank the Sun? (Nightwood $19.95), are… FULL STORY
They called her Number One
Given that Bev Sellars’ memoir, They Called Me Number One: Secrets and Survival at an Indian Residential School (Talonbooks), had… FULL STORY
Goto’s 20th anniversary edition
Twenty years after its first publication, the feminist novel by Hiromi Goto, Chorus of Mushrooms (NeWest) has been re-issued. The… FULL STORY
Uneasy rider on the Dease
There is a longstanding Canadian practice that when things get too messy, painful and intensely complicated, we head for the… FULL STORY
Book Prizes’ 30th gala has five firsts
This year’s BC Book Prizes gala at the Renaissance Harbourside Hotel, hosted by Charles Demers, was unprecedented in at least… FULL STORY
Punjabi lit at VPL
Sadhu Binning will read from his latest book on Thursday, May 22, at 7 p.m. in Alma VanDusen Room, Lower… FULL STORY
Surjeet Kalsey honoured
Surjeet Kalsey has been accorded a lifetime achievement award as part of the Harjit Kaur Sidhu Memorial Program. The award… FULL STORY
Whelan foresaw Sherpa tragedy
In 2010, Dianne Whelan went to Base Camp on Mount Everest where she interviewed climbers, doctors and Sherpas, who had… FULL STORY
Remembering the Angola War
The civil war in Angola began in 1975 and was long, complicated and bloody — an African equivalent of Viet… FULL STORY
Beggar King by Michelle Barker
In many fantasy stories, special powers come with a price and a responsibility. Sorcery can be dangerous and unpredictable. In… FULL STORY
Misplaced Society Girl
Anyone who has used a honey bucket, had to get a vehicle towed out of the ditch on a muddy… FULL STORY
Lorimer is finalist for Canada Prize
Rowland Lorimer is one of three finalists for this year’s Canada Prize in the Social Sciences. He has been shortlisted… FULL STORY
Petrarch’s correspondence
WHEN: Thursday, April 17 TIME: 7:30 pm WHERE: Simon Fraser University downtown campus, 515 West Hastings Sponsored by the… FULL STORY
Nobel winners on Stonehenge
Dr. Harry Karlinsky, Clinical Professor within the Department of Psychiatry at the University of British Columbia, is about to launch an… FULL STORY
Chief Bev Sellars wins Ryga Award
It wasn’t planned—but the memoir recounting abuse at the St. Joseph’s Residential School was released coincidentally with the proceedings of… FULL STORY
Secrets of the olive revealed
In her forthcoming new book Olive Odyssey: Searching for the Secrets of the Fruit That Seduced the World (Greystone $28.95),… FULL STORY
The Pope’s Bookbinder
The Spanish government commissioned a special binding of a religious text to present to the Pope who was to visit…. FULL STORY
Getting a handle on Ranald
The unparalleled, bizarre and tempestuous life story of Ranald Macdonald has never been successfully told. Don Gayton hopes to be… FULL STORY
