She lifts us up where we belong
Blacklisted by two American presidents, the Universal Soldier songstress breastfed her child on Sesame Street in 1977 and won a Best… FULL STORY
The task of remembrance
Reviewed by Mark Dwor, Claire Sicherman’s memoir revives the story of her murdered great grandmother so she can pass it… FULL STORY
Classic1973 Koona book reprinted
Carpenter John Smyly built a precise model of q’una (Koona) which has remained on view at the RBCM ever since its… FULL STORY
Watching all the girls go by
As feminism arose, reviewer Larry Hannant says, “the RCMP did what it did best — keeping the recording machine running.”… FULL STORY
One man’s obsessive search for truth
RCMP threatened to charge Michalko with obstruction of justice unless he dropped his unofficial investigation. Ex-Mountie Bonnie Reilly Schmidt reviews his… FULL STORY
Patrick Lane: stark, bleak, brilliant
In Deep River Night, for 416 pages, we are immersed in an unnamed sawmill village along the North Thompson River… FULL STORY
The suitcase and the jar
Reviewer Carys Cragg calls Livingston’s journey, told in The Suitcase and the Jar, “masterfully overwhelming and at once heartbreaking and stunningly… FULL STORY
Burning down the house
In 1971, the local government burned down the squatters’ ramshackle huts and cabins that were perched on a tidal plain… FULL STORY
Empathetic profiles of Kootenay lives
Seventeen people profiled in Lee Reid’s Growing Home: The Legacy of Kootenay Elders include author Tom Wayman, plus Doukhobors Ellie… FULL STORY
Living the dream at Rivers Inlet
George had a youthful dream to become a lighthouse keeper, and Pat was up for adventure. Grizzlies, Gales, and Giant… FULL STORY
Wry and fiercely beautiful
“These women and situations ring familiar, and then hit you with subversive notes.” Don’t Tell Me What to Do by… FULL STORY
From Punjab to Williams Lake
His memoir describes how Sikhs must build bridges with Indigenous peoples, Christians, Jews, Muslims and LGBT groups. An Uncommon Road:… FULL STORY
Another Peace offering
Peace River farmer Arlene Boon reminds us that “We have until the water rises to stop the dam.” Damming the… FULL STORY
Twisting, turning, teasing
“The only part that surprises me is that it didn’t win… Maybe it was deemed too ‘regional’ to win a… FULL STORY
The Sea Lord vs. Winnie
Writing in the Times Literary Supplement, Jan Morris has described Gough’s dual biography as “enthralling” and “a work of profound… FULL STORY
He built stories and they came
Reviewer Sheldon Goldfarb would have liked a more critical perspective to prevail; Steele instead supplies the life story as W.P…. FULL STORY
First Comings
According to reviewer Becki L. Ross, “Lori Brotto’s Better Sex not only inoculates the reader against the scourge of sexual… FULL STORY
Build it and they will chum
More than a decade later, their communal practice of women helping women has maintained its radically egalitarian ethic. Mudgirls Manifesto: … FULL STORY
A Polish mountain climber for the ages
Reviewer Ron Dart praises a new biography of Voytek Kurtyka for opening a door into the “mountaineering lore and legend”… FULL STORY
Missiles, murder and emasculation
Buday’s new comedy-thriller is, “probably about painting, too,” says reviewer Dustin Cole. And, like all good novels, the story proposes… FULL STORY
