That guy they killed at YVR with a Taser

“The RCMP’s attempts to manage the public fallout at the expense of its members speaks to the brokenness of an… FULL STORY

My Private Italy

From Iaci’s Casa Capri and Chef Boyardee, to Umberto Menghi’s upscale restaurants, Ware was inspired to embrace the Italian way… FULL STORY

Bringing back Chinatown Ghosts

“What a force of literature, creativity, and change Jim Wong-Chu helped to unlock,” says reviewer LiLynn Wan. Please follow and… FULL STORY

An ekphrastic homage to Phyllis Webb

While blending politics and poetry, and meditations on mortality and silence, Collis evokes Webb’s importance and respects her resolute withdrawal…. FULL STORY

Powter’s passages and climbs

Powter’s long climb to the top of Canadian mountaineering writing now has a representive collection of his journalism, from 1986… FULL STORY

Let’s not take history to the cleaners

The Pacific Northwest voyages of Captain James Cook are given short shrift but this umpteenth Cook overview doesn’t bend over… FULL STORY

Saturday, Bloody, Saturday

A new generation is introduced to a tumultuous, six-week struggle when more than 30,000 strikers battled police, vigilantes, and the… FULL STORY

Somewhere inside the rainbow

Published April 1, the novel arises from the author’s five-year stint as a journalist in South Africa during the late… FULL STORY

Victoria’s secret: diversity

May Wong’s new book takes us through one group after another: Hawaiians; Indigenous and Metis; Blacks; Jews; Chinese; and Japanese,… FULL STORY

A ponderosa pine time capsule

From a seedling to its death in 2003’s Okanagan Park fire, the tree survives eras from the fur trade, gold… FULL STORY

Speed, sex and moonshine

We encounter “the kinked garden hose/ of catastrophic thinking” and we share in the thrill of rushing towards a lover… FULL STORY

Brain Surgery at Zero Rock

Harvey’s account evokes icy winds, malevolent rocks and environmental eyesores. He also writes of weird parallels between boating and brain… FULL STORY

Remembrance of Chinatown meals past

Yen Lock. Ho Restaurant. Marco Polo Theatre Restaurant. “I remember the last time I ate at the Ho Inn, in… FULL STORY

Patrick Lane obituary

On the same day he died, the Spring issue of B.C. BookWorld carried the news that Patrick Lane would be… FULL STORY

The tall tree and thee

Perhaps it’s appropriate that our 500th review pays tribute to a veteran logger who saved an iconic Douglas fir, worth… FULL STORY

Bachelor Bannock, from 1939 to today

No matter what era, during eighty years the Métis people were sustained by the land–physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually. Please… FULL STORY