B.C.’s forgotten uprising
One of the largest, most broad-based political protests in Canadian history gets its due in a new book by David… FULL STORY
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Going for Wayman
Wayman helped bring into being a new movement of “work poetry” in North America, and was a co-founder and prominent… FULL STORY
Carving a doorway into belonging
Although piously religious, both women write of their mutual questioning of Islam and their outrage at patriarchy, prompting these lines:… FULL STORY
Plant tips from an Indigenous elder
Reviewer Alexander Varty discovers that Luschiim’s new book introduces readers to the joys of hazelnuts in the wild and other… FULL STORY
B.C.’s forgotten Métis leader
Joseph McKay became an explorer, a Hudson’s Bay Company manager, an elected official, a signor of many treaties with First… FULL STORY
The rise of graphic novels in B.C.
Early artists who combined drawings with words include Emily Carr who drew cartoons for Western Women’s Weekly in 1918 and… FULL STORY
Ode to the womb of war
The four poetic narratives in “The Ventriloquist” all share Gary Geddes’ preoccupations with the physical and psychological ravages of conquest… FULL STORY
Ronsdale Press carries on
With Holocaust stories gleaned from 85 B.C. authors and 160 books, Out of Hiding: Holocaust Literature of British Columbia includes… FULL STORY
Displaced, downtrodden and deranged
Tamas Dobozy’s new short story collection tells of, among others, a professional wrestler previously an Olympic hopeful in his ancestral… FULL STORY
Failed to return
Much has been written about Bomber Command but little of the feelings of the aircrew who followed orders without question… FULL STORY
Obituary: Always a Twinkle in His Eye
As co-manager (with his wife Veronica) of the Ronsdale Press imprint, Ron Hatch was the recipient of the Jim Douglas… FULL STORY
Veins of the Earth
In his new book about major North American rivers, UBC professor Eric Taylor shows why rivers are key to human… FULL STORY
Michael Audain: Builder of B.C.
Known as one of the province’s most generous art patrons, Audain overcame a difficult boyhood, volunteered for civil rights in… FULL STORY
Island Life
A couple on Saturna Island had to be “takers and makers of opportunities” says reviewer Christa Grace-Warrick, with jobs like… FULL STORY
Ivan Coyote letter exchange
With all bookings cancelled early on in the pandemic, non-binary Ivan Coyote started answering the hundreds of letters and emails… FULL STORY
Rubin Thau, superhero
“They were people who had the resilience to not only survive horrors but to create new lives and futures from… FULL STORY
Tales of Arabian feasts
The latest title in the Fairy Tale Feasts series, in which prominent writers of diverse cultures pair tales with traditional… FULL STORY
One man’s garbage, another man’s art
She collects floor sweepings of dog hair to spin and weave into slippers and makes outdoor sculpture out of green… FULL STORY
Keller gets on VPL’s “Walk of Fame”
When Keller became a writer in the late 1940s, she recalls little support for authors: “There were no writers’ groups,… FULL STORY
Families, friends & enemies
Hard questions are also asked of the parents in Half Brothers. “Parenting remains the universal preserve of blundering amateurs,” writes… FULL STORY
