BC Booklook

At the heights of his powers

Mary Sanseverino compares the work of the Banff-based photographer to American wilderness lensmen Ansell Adams and Galen Rowell. The Canadian… FULL STORY

Emotional time bombs

“This is a terrific debut and a book to reread just to admire the use of the language and to… FULL STORY

Disturbing: The Peace

In July, two civil law suits will be heard alleging that the impacts of Site C, west of Fort St…. FULL STORY

Sitting Shiva combines Google & grief

Erín Moure celebrates and grieves a man she left in 1982. He became an alcoholic and died alone at St…. FULL STORY

Enjoying the rat race

“Mountaineering is akin to having a rat gnawing on your insides – a creature that is constantly needing feeding, rarely… FULL STORY

Recalling New Orphic Review

“I now conceive of Endpiece as a caboose—a railway wagon attached to the end of a train. The lights at… FULL STORY

Say cheese, Hooded Nudibranch

Rick Harbo’s Photo Guide to Northwest Marine Life “will satisfy the curiosity of aspiring naturalists and more serious scientists alike”… FULL STORY

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