Spontaneous travelling
By David Lester With sketchbook in hand, Michael Kluckner travels on his own terms in Winging It: Travelling Without Reservations…. FULL STORY
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In the age of Heated Rivalry
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These walls can talk
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A life of wonder
“[A list of Pechet’s motifs and materials includes:] mustard bottles, picnic tables, honey bears, salmon, high school chemistry beakers, marshmallows,… FULL STORY
Walk a mile in my shoes
Review by Heidi Greco The easiest and clearest way to describe this book is as a contemporary version of “Freaky… FULL STORY
The krilling grounds
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Whistles in the forest
’Cúagilákv Jess Housty’s poems suggest the supernatural has never left us; rather, modern life has numbed our ability to recognize… FULL STORY
What makes life worthwhile?
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Trump and Canadian civil society
In Divided We Fall: How We Can Resist Polarizing Pressures and Strengthen Our Identity as Citizens (Lorimer $27.95), UBC political… FULL STORY
Fighting for Canadian literature
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Uncovering the Soul of Vancouver
In Very Vancouver: Uncovering the Soul of a West Coast City (ECW Press, $26.95), award-winning reporter Christopher Cheung cuts through… FULL STORY
Unlocking Freecouver
In Freecouver (Tidewater Press $16.95), co-authors John Lee and Rebecca Bollwitt map out the rich array of low-cost and free… FULL STORY
EXCERPT: Very Vancouver
Raised in a Vancouver multicultural neighbourhood, journalist Christopher Cheung has spent over a decade investigating his home city. In Very Vancouver:… FULL STORY
Mapping little libraries
Vancouver activist and longtime map editor Korky Day shares with Read Local BC how a pandemic walking habit grew into… FULL STORY
Art, story and legacy
Roy Henry Vickers, Indigenous artist and storyteller, celebrates his 80th birthday this year with The Best of Roy Henry Vickers: 80 Selected… FULL STORY
Trust the reader
Odette Auger is a member of Sagamok Anishnawbek First Nation living in the Ayajuthem-speaking part of the Salish Sea. An… FULL STORY
Generations of resilience
Masako Fukawa is an award-winning educator and historian known for documenting the history of Japanese Canadians in British Columbia. She… FULL STORY
Ryga Award shortlist, 2026
Five authors have been shortlisted for the 2026 George Ryga Award, an annual literary prize for a BC writer who… FULL STORY
Inside a Petrostate
Born and raised in Singapore, Joanne Leow worked as a journalist for state-controlled media before moving to Canada to work… FULL STORY
Gough gets the Woodcock
Barry Gough, one of BC’s premier historians and author of more than 20 history books including the first book ever… FULL STORY
