From Bowen Island to Marpole
Bowen Island poet Jude Neale began her first week as writer in residence at the Historic Joy Kogawa House in… FULL STORY
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The little dugout canoe that could
John M. MacFarlane and Lynn J. Salmon have won a John Lyman Book Award for best book published in the… FULL STORY
Familial duty, resentment & guilt
Two sets of sisters, four different personalities and difficult sibling dynamics set the stage for Annabel Lyon’s upcoming novel Consent… FULL STORY
Not just salmon poems
The collected early works of Wah (born 1939) and Marlatt (born 1942) reflect origins in the 1960s with Tish, the… FULL STORY
As Italian as possible
It’s the summer of 1960 and a young UBC student is about to leave Vancouver, then still very much a… FULL STORY
Rolf Knight is Woodcock winner
B.C.’s foremost historian of the working class, Rolf Knight, will finally get the recognition he deserves when he receives the… FULL STORY
The Moral Work of Nursing
Hazel Magnussen’s first book A Doctor’s Calling: A Matter of Conscience (Parksville: Wembley Publishing, 2006) recounts the life and murder… FULL STORY
Talk the talk; walk the walk
The aptly named Derek Walker Youngs devoted much of his life to peace, walking his way through 25 countries for… FULL STORY
Punjabi, Hindi, Urdu lit get its due
The third-most spoken language in Canada is Punjabi. Now South Asian literature is on the rise throughout Canada, particularly in… FULL STORY
Bold lives revered
Recognizing that teaching and presenting papers are performances in themselves, Sasha Colby has fused her studies of three remarkable women… FULL STORY
Ubiquitous music
When we drive in a car listening to any piece of music we want to hear, from anywhere in the… FULL STORY
Ormsby #120 Down Under therapy
After coming to B.C. in 2007 with his Canadian wife and their five-year-old twins, Darren Groth has followed his acclaimed… FULL STORY
What Jinx thinks
“The letters in A Queer Love Story are not simply a look into private lives, which are satisfying and rich in themselves…. FULL STORY
Captain Vancouver & his Mapmaker
Mary Tasi of Sky Spirit Studio and her studio partner Wade Baker, a descendant of three royal First Nations lineages,… FULL STORY
Why the Pisa Tower leans
Trevor Newland’s Race to Pisa! (Mosaic $14.95) reveals the real reason why the world-famous Tower of Pisa leans a little… FULL STORY
British Columbia for Dummies
REVIEW: Price Paid: The Fight for First Nations Survival by Bev Sellars Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2016 $19.95 978-0-88922-972-3 reviewed by Caroline… FULL STORY
Iron Man, tender heart
Dan Dunaway’s YA novel Heart Like a Wing (Ronsdale $11.95) is a sensitive portrayal of a prairie girl, Briony, with… FULL STORY
Putin’s Potemkin village
Russian-born Marina Sonkina, a Vancouver writer, reveals contemporary Russia beneath its facade. Every two years, Russian-born fiction writer Marina Sonkina… FULL STORY
Stone-warm-sober hope
Alex Van Tol visits internationalist Margriet Ruurs on Saltspring Island. On a chilly and overcast October morning, as the Skeena… FULL STORY
From Latvia, with love and yoga
Marion “Mugs” McConnell of Scotch Creek in the Okanagan was first introduced to yoga as a teenager in 1973 and… FULL STORY
