Wayson Choy (1939-2019)
Wayson Choy was the first Chinese Canadian to enrol in a Creative Writing class at UBC where he wrote a… FULL STORY
Killed by a Taser at YVR
“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
Ware’s odyssey of cuisine Italiana is rooted in the east end of 1950-70s Vancouver with stories of restaurants, nightclubs, family,… FULL STORY
Bringing back Chinatown Ghosts
“What a force of literature, creativity, and change Jim Wong-Chu helped to unlock,” says reviewer LiLynn Wan. Chinatown Ghosts: The… 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.
Looking for law in all the wrong places
The enlightened maritime laws of Hugo Grotius are all very well, but Across Oceans of Law avoids the stories of… FULL STORY
Not against the wilderness
Packed with information on the skills needed to live a pioneer life, her North of Familiar is another memoir in… FULL STORY
Poetic pairings pontificate and probe
Now Rob Taylor tells us what the poets are doing in pairs, combining mid-career writers with relative newcomers. Review by… FULL STORY
