Erín Moure's long-ago lover, Paul Émile Savard, last lived at the Hildon Hotel, 50 West Cordova.
Erín Moure celebrates and grieves a man she left in 1982. He became an alcoholic and died alone at St. Paul’s Hospital at age 72. FULL STORY
“Mountaineering is akin to having a rat gnawing on your insides – a creature that is constantly needing feeding, rarely… FULL STORY
“I now conceive of Endpiece as a caboose—a railway wagon attached to the end of a train. The lights at… FULL STORY
Rick Harbo’s Photo Guide to Northwest Marine Life “will satisfy the curiosity of aspiring naturalists and more serious scientists alike”… FULL STORY
“I was gripped and fascinated by this masterful account.” — Howard Hisdal All the Fine Young Eagles: In the… FULL STORY
Joel Solomon has befriended founders of Greenpeace, Hollyhock, TIDES and Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream; and he has backed Mayor… FULL STORY
From Oral to Written: A Celebration of Indigenous Literature in Canada, 1980-2010 celebrates the rise of a new literary genre;… FULL STORY
There have been ghost collections before Shanon Sinn’s new book; and there will be more after. Reviewer Carol Anne Shaw… FULL STORY
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
Joan Givner compares Kevin Chong’s The Plague, set in Vancouver, with Albert Camus’ work of the same name published seventy… FULL STORY
UBC expert has published an examination of the earth’s waterways with Princeton University Press, reviewed be B.C. estuary expert Colin… FULL STORY
A new, 560-page biography is reviewed by John Hutchings who stargazed there for 51 years. It marks the 100th anniversary… FULL STORY
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: A 50th Anniversary is a must-read for those interested in B.C. and Lower Mainland life in the last… FULL STORY
The walker who came in from the cold is the subject of a new book that has already won the… FULL STORY
“We need new ideas,” says Travis Lupick. “We need to begin talking about legalizing and regulating illicit narcotics. I don’t… FULL STORY
Marianne Ignace and Ronald E. Ignace have represented ten thousand years of settlement with Secwépemc People, Land, and Laws: Yerí7… FULL STORY
In the forthcoming Rediscovering Norman Bethune, Larry Hannant maintains Bethune was not a crass womanizer, as alleged by unreliable biographer… FULL STORY
Jay Sherwood’s superb Surveying the Great Divide recalls how Canada’s longest provincial boundary was formalized by a few brave men… FULL STORY
His history begins with early Indigenous bone and wooden skates in Canada and Finland; metal skates were developed in Europe… FULL STORY
