CanLit does YiddishLit
A small loosely-knit group, the Vancouver School of Yiddish translators has come together to remedy the loss of their culture’s… FULL STORY
Revealing Auschwitz
According to the Auschwitz Museum, as many as 196 prisoners can be said to have escaped from Auschwitz-Birkenau and its… FULL STORY
Whatever happened to Mary Jayne?
Empowered by her own voice, Mary Jayne Blackmore says she is compelled to keep asking the big questions of womanhood… FULL STORY
Red snowfields and melting ice caps
Quarmby writes about washing up on shore with “nothing but wilderness between me and the next polar bear,” total daylight,… FULL STORY
Survivor stories: Post-Witness Era
Along with “new” Holocaust stories, purportedly some of the last in living memory to be recorded, Schallie’s book combines Jewish scholarship,… FULL STORY
A mother’s work is never done
Amanda Watson explores the mythology of the contemporary mother in the media: a typically white, middle-class woman on the verge of… FULL STORY
A Gilly’s place is in a boat
Gilly is a whiz at running her boat: she catches fish; she consoles a multi-millionaire who loses a trophy-sized tyee… FULL STORY
Psychopaths in boardrooms
Like environmental crusader Greta Thunberg, Bakan believes CEOs are making it look like real action is happening when little is… FULL STORY
When Istanbul was Constantinople
The heroine, Annie, is beckoned back in time to the 10th century by a great-aunt to set sail on a… FULL STORY
Yosef Wosk receives Order of Canada
For his extensive contributions as a scholar, writer and educator, and for his wide-ranging philanthropy, B.C. author Yosef Wosk has… FULL STORY
The ‘Meg and Greg’ books
Dyslexia-friendly features include shaded paper to cut down on contrast, a font that mimics printed letters, extra spacing between words… FULL STORY
Colombia, yes; D.C., no
While Davis bemoans the degradation of American culture as evidenced by the bizarre ascension of a liar and a cheat,… FULL STORY
Fifty years of wisdom & civilization
“We at Banyen are stoked to help (in our bookstorely way) all us humans to upgrade our nature-and-heart-based operating systems.”… FULL STORY
Living with Young-Onset Alzheimer’s
June Hutton and her husband Tony Wanless wrote the book together, leaving in his spelling mistakes, to shine a light… FULL STORY
Adventure travel, 1950s-style
Renate Belcyzk and Sigrid Hirte’s advice for a successful trip: be positive, keep an open heart and take a chance.
In pursuit of Charlie
Sarah Louise Butler’s debut novel never mentions the words Sasquatch or Bigfoot. Rather the mysterious primate is a universal symbol… FULL STORY
Enter, colonizing settlers
Her 16 essays are “thought-provoking” says reviewer Ian Chunn and give opportunities to ponder how the difficulties of colonialism can… FULL STORY
Pro Choice YA book wins Egoff Prize
Stevenson says she wants her title, My Body My Choice to generate discussion about abortions and to de-stigmatize these medical… FULL STORY
Laboratory achiever
After earning a Ph.D. in England in 1958, Julia Levy returned to UBC to teach and work in her own… FULL STORY
Drawing social struggle
“I didn’t want the drawing sequence [of June 21, 1919, known as ‘bloody Sunday’] to be entertaining,” Lester says. “I… FULL STORY
