Derek Hayes stays on track
The intrepid geographer’s 15th magnum opus doesn’t disappoint, according to local historian Walter Volovsek, an expert on the Columbia &… FULL STORY
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Throwing off the cloak of invisibility
To paraphrase Mark Twain, the reports of their extinction were exaggerated, as evidenced by Not Extinct: Keeping the Sinixt Way,… 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
A tale of trauma rises to the top
According to reviewer David Milward, Darrel J. McLeod “offers a brutally honest front-seat view of the havoc” wrought by intergenerational… FULL STORY
Kathy Page wins big — at last
Finally, the Salt Spring Island author has been awarded the $50,000 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize for Dear Evelyn, a… FULL STORY
Life in Boswell on a century-old farm
Luanne Armstrong’s memoir of an enduring friendship, both joyful and stricken. A Bright and Steady Flame: The Story of an… FULL STORY
All that jazz in Vancouver
Based on twenty years of interviews and research, Live at the Cellar recalls a thriving jazz scene in the late… FULL STORY
Twin births and grizzlies
His expressionist work Thanks for Giving has just been released by Talonbooks, along with Joan MacLeod’s realist play, Gracie, both… FULL STORY
Why I Resigned from the Writers Union
“If you genuinely believe Alan Twigg is somehow not an ‘ally’ of indigenous people, you have absolutely no idea of… FULL STORY
Ranch in the Slocan
Cole Harris has long suggested that social change in settler societies has come about through geographical change. Ranch in the… FULL STORY
Baker Street without Holmes
“There is a lot of stuff going on that you’d never find in the land of Holmes or Poirot,” says… FULL STORY
She lifts us up where we belong
Blacklisted by two American presidents, the Universal Soldier songstress breastfed her child on Sesame Street in 1977 and won a Best… FULL STORY
The task of remembrance
Reviewed by Mark Dwor, Claire Sicherman’s memoir revives the story of her murdered great grandmother so she can pass it… FULL STORY
Classic1973 Koona book reprinted
Carpenter John Smyly built a precise model of q’una (Koona) which has remained on view at the RBCM ever since its… FULL STORY
Watching all the girls go by
As feminism arose, reviewer Larry Hannant says, “the RCMP did what it did best — keeping the recording machine running.”… FULL STORY
One man’s obsessive search for truth
RCMP threatened to charge Michalko with obstruction of justice unless he dropped his unofficial investigation. Ex-Mountie Bonnie Reilly Schmidt reviews his… FULL STORY
Patrick Lane: stark, bleak, brilliant
In Deep River Night, for 416 pages, we are immersed in an unnamed sawmill village along the North Thompson River… FULL STORY
The suitcase and the jar
Reviewer Carys Cragg calls Livingston’s journey, told in The Suitcase and the Jar, “masterfully overwhelming and at once heartbreaking and stunningly… FULL STORY
Burning down the house
In 1971, the local government burned down the squatters’ ramshackle huts and cabins that were perched on a tidal plain… FULL STORY
Empathetic profiles of Kootenay lives
Seventeen people profiled in Lee Reid’s Growing Home: The Legacy of Kootenay Elders include author Tom Wayman, plus Doukhobors Ellie… FULL STORY
