#533 Scribes of the Downtown Eastside
From the Heart of it All: Ten Years of Writing from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside by Heidi Greco (editor) Vancouver: Otter… FULL STORY
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#532 The death of Robert Dziekanski
Blamed and Broken: The Mounties and the Death of Robert Dziekanski by Curt Petrovich Toronto: Dundurn, 2019 $20.99 / 9781459742932… FULL STORY
#531 J. Michael Yates (1938-2019)
Creator and manager of Sono Nis Press from 1966 to 1976, J. Michael Yates has died in Vancouver General Hospital… FULL STORY
#530 Grahame Ware’s Private Italy
MEMOIR: My Private Italy by Grahame Ware * We are delighted to present “My Private Italy,” the second instalment of… FULL STORY
#529 Poems and portraits of Chinatown
Chinatown Ghosts: The Poems and Photographs of Jim Wong-Chu by Jim Wong-Chu Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2018 $19.95 / 9781551527482… FULL STORY
#528 Fleeting moments that matter
Quarrels by Eve Joseph Vancouver: Anvil Press, 2018 $18.00 / 9781772141191 Reviewed by Paul Falardeau * On April 9, 2019,… FULL STORY
#527 Graffiti, Canadian style
Graffiti, Canadian Style By Ernest Hekkanen (in 1999) It was twenty years ago today, Sgt. Pepper taught the band to… FULL STORY
#526 Lies, tenure, and dark energy
Black Star by Maureen Medved Vancouver: Anvil Press, 2018 $20.00 / 9781772141122 Reviewed by Theo Dombrowski * Encountering the barbed… FULL STORY
#525 Ron Holland makes a splash
All the Oceans: Designing by the Seat of My Pants by Ron Holland, with a Foreword by Rupert Murdoch Vancouver:… FULL STORY
#524 Just another Cook book
James Cook: The Voyages by William Frame with Laura Walker Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2018 $49.95 / 9780773552869… FULL STORY
#523 Powter’s alpine passages
Inner Ranges: An Anthology of Mountain Thoughts and Mountain People by Geoff Powter, with a foreword by Chris Bonnington Victoria:… FULL STORY
#522 Nurse log and a Great Blue Heron
Upend by Kevin Spenst Victoria: Frog Hollow Press, 2018 $15.00 / 9781926948652 Reviewed by David Stouck * In Vancouver’s poetry… FULL STORY
#521 The Al Purdy Poets’ Society
Beyond Forgetting: Celebrating 100 Years of Al Purdy by Howard White and Emma Skagen (editors), with a foreword by Steven… FULL STORY
#520 Somewhere inside the rainbow
In Arianna Dagnino’s The Afrikaner, published April 1st, a brave and resilient woman ventures to the Kalahari Desert to find… FULL STORY
#519 Back to Bloody Saturday
1919: A Graphic History of the Winnipeg General Strike by the Graphic History Collective and David Lester, with an introduction… FULL STORY
#518 Matriarchs of Johnsons Landing
What Forever Feels Like: A Memoir of Johnsons Landing by Ellen Burt New Denver: Maa Press, 2018 $23.00 / 9781999554804… FULL STORY
#517 Sunlight on the Rain People
Ocean Falls: After the Whistle. Recollections and Reflections of Life in a Coastal Company Town by R. Brian McDaniel Victoria:… FULL STORY
#516 Chilliwack to Ts’elxwéyeqw
Being Ts’elxwéyeqw: First Peoples’ Voices and History from the Chilliwack-Fraser Valley, British Columbia by the Ts’elxwéyeqw Tribe (producers) and David… FULL STORY
#515 Fulford Harbour’s silent poet
Almost Islands: Phyllis Webb and the Pursuit of the Unwritten by Stephen Collis Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2018 $24.95 / 9781772012071 Reviewed… FULL STORY
#514 Consider the Indian Act
21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act: Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples a Reality by… FULL STORY
