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
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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
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
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
From Phyllis to Maite
The first Greenpeace ship in 1971 was the Phyllis Cormack, abortion a converted fishing vessel that was sent to protest… 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
