Thien on Booker shortlist
Born in Vancouver, Madeleine Thien, the daughter of Malaysian-Chinese immigrants, was taught to read at age three by her older… FULL STORY
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Giller gleam for Salt Spring’s Page
Kathy Page’s The Story of My Face was longlisted for the Orange Prize in 2002. Alphabet was a Governor General’s… FULL STORY
Rage against the nonsense
by John Moore By day, Peter Babiak is a mild-mannered Langara professor of English literature. Come sundown, he morphs… FULL STORY
A person of between
Billed as a literary equivalent to the groundbreaking movie Orlando, inspired by Virginia Woolf’s classic novel of the same name,… FULL STORY
A little-heralded classic — from Lytton
We vote for Don Sawyer’s Where the Rivers Meet, now into its tenth printing. First published by Pemmican Publications back… FULL STORY
Frozen but fearless
Trapped on the second-highest peak in North America, Mount Logan, during an extratropical cyclone would be a mountaineer’s worst nightmare…. FULL STORY
For Your Own Good makes good
The poems in Leah Horlick’s For Your Own Good (Caitlin Press, 2015) tell the fictionalized tale of a survivor of… FULL STORY
Cree camping and living off the land
Duncan McCue, a current affairs reporter for the CBC’s flagship show, The National, is Anishinaabe, a member of the Chippewas… FULL STORY
Sveva revisited
In her forthcoming book Reading Sveva (Talonbooks $17.95), Daphne Marlatt will respond to the life and paintings of Sveva Caetani,… FULL STORY
Bernadette’s peripheral vision
When a man goes missing, his would-be mother searches for her identity. Kyuquot becomes Tawakin in Jennifer Manuel’s debut novel,… FULL STORY
Emily X 2
Born in 1910, Carol Pearson was a friend and student of Emily Carr who published her fond recollections of Carr… FULL STORY
Remembering Larry Loyie
Larry Loyie (aka Oskiniko) was born in Slave Lake, Alberta, where he spent his early years living a traditional Cree… FULL STORY
Forget kale, go kelp
Who better to give us lowdown than a man who had a genus of kelp named after him, Louis Druehl?… FULL STORY
Treespotting in Straley’s footsteps
by James Paley David Tracey’s new field guide, Vancouver Tree Book (Pure Wave Media $20), is a continuation of a… FULL STORY
Flett not fleeting
Julie Flett’s story board book for infants, Little You (Orca 2013), with text by Richard Van Camp, has reportedly sold… FULL STORY
Schell food from the Okanagan
Jennifer Schell comes from a multi-generational farming family and was raised on an apple orchard in Kelowna. After eight years… FULL STORY
Computer illiteracy can be beaten
Not every author yearns to win The Giller or the Woodcock Award. Some strive for public eduction–to be useful. Louise… FULL STORY
Raptis revisits Port Essington
For nearly a century, from 1871 until destructive fires in the 1960s, the Tsimshian residents of the Port Essington Indian… FULL STORY
Al Purdy’s deathbed drama
Al Purdy, twice winner of the Governor General’s Award for poetry and a member of the Order of Canada, died… FULL STORY
Better late than ever
In preparing an ebook version of John Armstrong’s Wages, New Star Books discovered an entire section of the manuscript, about… FULL STORY
