Far beyond “A Very Ordinary Life”
Rolf Knight’s writing career began in 1973, making him the foremost historian for the working class in B.C. Now he… FULL STORY
Ormsby #144 One family, one lake
But a young academic reviewer criticizes an older “settler” for not writing the book she would have written. REVIEW:… FULL STORY
Ormsby #138 Drugs, alcohol & Wee’git
From brutal realism to magic realism, Eden Robinson poses a connection between drugs and mythology. REVIEW: Son of a Trickster… FULL STORY
Ormsby #128 Fred Herzog’s genius
Curator Bill Jeffries responds to a major, new book on the postwar imagery of Herzog’s Vancouver street photography over sixty… FULL STORY
Ormsby #131 Expo 67 and its offspring
The Year Canadians Lost Their Minds and Found Their Country recounts the myriad ways we marked the hundredth birthday of… FULL STORY
Ormsby #130 Making Room
“Vancouver feminism liberated us from more than lipstick and foundation garments,” says reviewer Phyllis Reeve, responding to a new, retrospective… FULL STORY
Ormsby #129 Hornby steel haven
But Jeffrey Rubinoff’s Sculpture Park on Hornby Island has nothing to do with NASA and more to do with Charles… FULL STORY
Bold, avant-garde lives are revived
Sasha Colby at SFU has fused her studies of three remarkable women into three, original theatrical presentations. Although Sasha Colby’s… FULL STORY
Punjabi, Hindi & Urdu lit has a champ
Now South Asian literature is on the rise throughout Canada, particularly in British Columbia as evidenced by Rajwant Chilana’s 500-page… FULL STORY
Afghan spraycans at UBC
Shamsia Hassani of Kabul uses her illicit street art to alleviate the trauma of war. The gist of an exhibition… FULL STORY
Wade Davis wins Ryga Award
Now the UBC-based anthropologist has won the George Ryga Award for Social Awareness. If there is anyone from B.C. who… FULL STORY
Getting Wagamese into the circle
Four prizes out of seven went to books with Indigenous content at the 33rd annual B.C. Book Prizes. Richard Wagamese… FULL STORY
Ormsby #125 Marine birds
In it, Caroline Fox charts the distribution and long-distance migrations of North Pacific marine birds including albatrosses, puffins, and shearwaters…. FULL STORY
Ormsby #124 Grappling with apples
Michael Sasges revisits Tetlenitsa’s challenges to officialdom after Merritt City Council prevented him from selling 40 boxes of apples from… FULL STORY
Ormsby #122 Cry me a river
Eileen Delehanty Pearkes reveals why we must choose between river-as-an-eco-system or else river-as-a-machine. Review by John Gellard. REVIEW: A River… FULL STORY
Ormsby #121 A 100-mile crime novel
From Alisa Smith, co-author of The 100-Mile Diet, comes a tale of WW II espionage that takes place roughly within… FULL STORY
Ormsby #120 Down Under therapy
After coming to B.C. in 2007 with his Canadian wife and their five-year-old twins, Darren Groth has followed his acclaimed… FULL STORY
Ormsby #118 Cassiar’s grubstake angel
Gold Rush Queen recalls a beautiful, Irish-born entrepreneur, philanthropist and champion dog musher who is buried in Victoria’s Ross Bay… FULL STORY
Ormsby #117 Neel gets R-E-S-P-E-C-T
Now a Victoria exhibit, Ellen Neel: The First Woman Totem Pole Carver, has finally accorded some of the attention she… FULL STORY
Ormsby #113 Why estuaries are vital
After 35 years of research, Colin Levings focusses on 18 species of salmonids and almost 200 B.C. estuaries to make… FULL STORY
