What makes life worthwhile?
Pauline Holdstock’s short story collection, What Endures (Biblioasis $22.95), takes readers from tense dinner parties and brain surgery at Christmas… FULL STORY
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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
“[M]any of my colleagues were convinced that literature could be English or American—but not Canadian.”
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
Audacious Gumboot creators
How Two Audacious Amateurs Created Four Best-selling Books (with the help of 124 friends) By Kristin Miller Jane Wilde and… FULL STORY
Poetry, chess and climate change
Poet and author Renée Sarojini Saklikar discusses Bramah’s Discovery (Nightwood $24.95), the third installment in her ambitious thot j bap… FULL STORY
Bats are nothing like rats
“Contrary to many beliefs, [bats aren’t] blind, they don’t always hang upside-down, they certainly don’t all have rabies (most rabies… FULL STORY
EXCERPT: Growing My Way Home
WARNING: This feature contains stories of difficult life experiences for, and abuse to, an Indigenous woman and may trigger emotional… FULL STORY
Children of Holocaust Survivors
Edited by Deborah Ross-Grayman, Voices of Resilience: An Anthology of Stories Written by Children of Holocaust Survivors (Amsterdam Publishers $24.95),… FULL STORY
A life that named mountains
A mountaineer, medical researcher and lifelong wilderness advocate, Lisa Baile (at right) brings rare intimacy to John Clarke: Explorer of… FULL STORY
Living cheap, well
Steve Burgess is a writer and broadcaster whose new book Cheapskate in Lotusland: The Philosophy and Practice of Living Well… FULL STORY
