True tales of Camelsfoot
The failed dream is a common trope in back-to-the-land memoirs — but Culture Gap shows that much can be learned… FULL STORY
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The tribulations of Brenda Joe
Reviewer Paul Headrick says this debut novel is in the tradition of stories that are set in small rural settlements… FULL STORY
Zappa from A to Z
Buying “The Big Note: A Guide to the Recordings of Frank Zappa” for a collector would be akin to gifting… FULL STORY
Gathering Gathie
Robin Laurence has traced Falk’s productivity from a Mennonite upbringing to Western Front frontierism in Apples, etc.: An Artist’s Memoir…. FULL STORY
Slot canyons honours Art Twomey
Their co-author Art Twomey died tragically in a helicopter crash in the Purcell Mountains in 1997. Searching for Tao Canyon… FULL STORY
Food for thought
In a country of diversity, we are challenged to taste, absorb and digest 252 contributions, including one that requires a… FULL STORY
We all bleed the same
Reviewer Anna Hall calls it “an exceptional book and a significant contribution to the conservation of killer whales.” Orca: How… FULL STORY
Beau Dick was the real McCoy
It has now propelled a new book into the world about the quintessential Kwakwaka’wakw artist and activist Beau Dick. Beau… FULL STORY
Stephen Reid (1950-2018)
By the end of his life, Reid had published two books and served time in more than 20 American and… FULL STORY
There has always been a housing crisis
There were times when Chelene Knight slept in her shoes in case her mother might tell her to leave in… FULL STORY
Feed your head. Save your dime.
A B.C. guys visits every country on the planet in a mere 23 years, without a camera, to discover, “Good… FULL STORY
Chinese Cultural Revolution revisited
As Katherine Luo makes clear in her memoir, The Unceasing Storm, it mostly ruined Chinese lives instead. The Unceasing Storm:… FULL STORY
Hughes renewed by Amos
Even though the reclusive Hughes looked like Thomas Hardy, he became a star in his eighties. * “B.C. is the… FULL STORY
From props to hot properties
A Malaspina grad is now one of the country’s most sought-after sculptors. Review by Maria Tippett. Life and Bronze: A… FULL STORY
Richard Wagamese’s third solitude
Reviewer Eldon Yellowhorn concludes Indian Horse “is the composition that will forever evoke the name Richard Wagamese.” Indian Horse By… FULL STORY
Christy Clark’s downfall
Rob Shaw and Richard Zussman claim that Christy Clark was also unable to convince L.G. Judith Guichon to send voters… FULL STORY
A little revolution, please
He recommends Rachel Notley and Justin Trudeau would do well to pick up a copy of City On Edge with… FULL STORY
All hail the middle of the road
In The Canadian Party System we learn only three leaders in that party’s entire history have not become prime minister…. FULL STORY
Finding Franklin, nailing Harper
While covering the Franklin story, the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist got sacked for blowing the whistle on Prime Minister Harper’s… FULL STORY
When camping was no picnic
In the ’30s and ’40s, he became a leftist in response to the intransigence of the authorities; he later became… FULL STORY
