It takes one to know one
“I was gripped and fascinated by this masterful account.” — Howard Hisdal All the Fine Young Eagles: In the… FULL STORY
The wisdom of Solomon
Joel Solomon has befriended founders of Greenpeace, Hollyhock, TIDES and Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream; and he has backed Mayor… FULL STORY
The new turf of Indigenous Lit
From Oral to Written: A Celebration of Indigenous Literature in Canada, 1980-2010 celebrates the rise of a new literary genre;… FULL STORY
Paranormal gets its due
There have been ghost collections before Shanon Sinn’s new book; and there will be more after. Reviewer Carol Anne Shaw… FULL STORY
Invalidating Judge McEachern’s folly
President of the Gitxsan-Wet’suwet’en Tribal Council in the 1980s, Neil J. Sterritt has recalled his essential role in successful land… FULL STORY
A plague on our houses
Joan Givner compares Kevin Chong’s The Plague, set in Vancouver, with Albert Camus’ work of the same name published seventy… FULL STORY
How rivers can remember
UBC expert has published an examination of the earth’s waterways with Princeton University Press, reviewed be B.C. estuary expert Colin… FULL STORY
B.C. astronomer gets his due
A new, 560-page biography is reviewed by John Hutchings who stargazed there for 51 years. It marks the 100th anniversary… FULL STORY
Surrey highlighted from 1850s to 1980s
In Surrey: A City of Stories, she has provided a well-researched, engaging, and inclusive historical overview of B.C.’s fast-growing city…. FULL STORY
Georgia Straight endures & thrives
“Georgia Straight: A 50th Anniversary is a must-read for those interested in B.C. and Lower Mainland life in the last… FULL STORY
Cold feet in Tatshenshini
The walker who came in from the cold is the subject of a new book that has already won the… FULL STORY
Lupick earns top non-fiction honour
“We need new ideas,” says Travis Lupick. “We need to begin talking about legalizing and regulating illicit narcotics. I don’t… FULL STORY
Secwépemc history prevails
Marianne Ignace and Ronald E. Ignace have represented ten thousand years of settlement with Secwépemc People, Land, and Laws: Yerí7… FULL STORY
Norman Bethune and women
In the forthcoming Rediscovering Norman Bethune, Larry Hannant maintains Bethune was not a crass womanizer, as alleged by unreliable biographer… FULL STORY
Alberta/BC & the Great Divide
Jay Sherwood’s superb Surveying the Great Divide recalls how Canada’s longest provincial boundary was formalized by a few brave men… FULL STORY
We came, we saw, we skated
His history begins with early Indigenous bone and wooden skates in Canada and Finland; metal skates were developed in Europe… FULL STORY
Ryga Award shortlist announced
Shortlisted titles are Gary Geddes’ Medicine Unbundled, Travis Lupick’s Fighting for Space and David Suzuki & Ian Hanington’s Just Cool… FULL STORY
Binning House (1941 – ????)
A California book provides a guide to a much-lauded West Vancouver landmark for West Coast architecture. Binning House by Matthew… FULL STORY
Kaho’olawe, the 8th Hawaiian isle
A Grunt Gallery exhibit highlights the social memory of Coast Salish people of Hawaiian ancestry and their return to Hawaii… FULL STORY
High risks, high expectations
Kelowna historian K. Wayne Wilson recommends Douglas Grant’s account of hard work, technological innovation and tenacity.
