Shoelaces: hard. Bestsellers: not easy
Reviewer Sheldon Goldfarb pays tribute by respectfully mimicking McCardell’s amusing but always thoughtful style. Shoelaces are Hard & Other Thoughtful… FULL STORY
The big conundrum: Water and China
Robert Sandford leaves no stone unturned in his assessment of crises emerging in freshwater and marine systems in China, Canada,… FULL STORY
Inspired by Woodward’s revolving W
With his artwork in Revolving W and Flying Pigs, Keith McKellar brings an energy to Vancouver’s social history that few… FULL STORY
RBCM: a dualistic museum
An intriguing overview by Patricia Roy (left), The Collectors shows how the Royal B.C. Museum’s unsung curators have since developed… FULL STORY
Ancient grains and seeds are awesome
Such is the case with Awesome Ancient Grains & Seeds, a hybrid gardening/ cookbook by Dan Jason and Michele Genest–reviewed… FULL STORY
Retrieving weaving as an art form
In Salish Blankets: Robes of Protection and Transformation, Symbols of Wealth, we learn Janice George and Buddy Joseph have since… FULL STORY
A big heart fuels The Small Way
Still co-habiting, the poet further accepts her ex-partner’s trans-journey as a queer-trans woman falling in love with another woman. The… FULL STORY
Two writes of the Passage
Christopher Wright, author of Arctic Cargo, reviews Ken Burton’s Canada’s Arctic and Kevin Vallely’s Rowing the Northwest Passage. Rowing the… FULL STORY
Bring on the broccoli
Along the way we learn pyramid builders ate garlic for stamina and Louis XIV started the fad for snacking on… FULL STORY
A biography of a hidden mansion
Ultimately this is a book about a particular house rather than a social class or family, according to reviewer Patrick… FULL STORY
Looking beyond Chinatown
Her third book from Caitlin Press, Blossoms in the Gold Mountains, pays tribute to Chinese settlements in the Fraser Canyon… FULL STORY
Trail & the atomic bomb
His independent title recalls a rare instance when Canada did not entirely focus its research efforts in eastern Canada.
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
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
