The bard and the bees
Winston approaches Saklikar’s poetic concerns by foregrounding his own unscientific love of words, especially from the world of beekeeping: queenright,… FULL STORY
The cattle cometh
Cattle brought to B.C. on the Okanagan Trail were a mix of British shorthorn and Spanish cattle from Mexico, via… FULL STORY
Tracing a modern Kurtz in the Congo
The novel’s depiction of the confusion and violence of the Congo is entirely convincing according to reviewer Paul Headrick.
Big oil, big stall, big bamboozle
Trudeau’s cabinet so liked the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project that they “bought the company” from Texas-based oil giant Kinder… FULL STORY
Starlight is “breathtakingly beautiful”
Shelagh Rogers shines a light on her friend Richard Wagamese’s final novel, published before it was completed, in an interview… FULL STORY
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
