“Writing has to come first.”
He’s a Mayne Island magus, a magical master of words, according to Cherie Thiessen. by Cherie Thiessen Growing up in… FULL STORY
Tibet, disrupted and desecrated
According to B.C.’s Michael Buckley, China is making the biggest water grab in history—stealing water from Tibet’s rivers for hydropower… FULL STORY
Okanagan leader joins literary pantheon
This award is presented for an outstanding literary career in B.C. Since 1995, the City of Vancouver (Mayor of Vancouver’s… FULL STORY
Take your Pick
From ice cream to bootlegging, Emilio Picariello’s life story has the makings of a Bonnie & Clyde movie—if you don’t… FULL STORY
“Cambodia was my teacher”
Five years after that, Elaine Harvey was treating victims of the carnage on the Cambodia-Thailand border. Democratic Kampuchea, as Cambodia… FULL STORY
Ryga winner speaks for have-nots
The journalist unveils B.C. poverty in A Better Place on Earth. Andrew MacLeod’s A Better Place on Earth: The Search… FULL STORY
Endless Eye in nation’s capital
A Journey With the Endless Eye recalls events of 1914 when some 376 Indian migrants were refused entry in Vancouver… FULL STORY
The perils of Tahrir Square
Set in Egypt, it has received the inaugural HarperCollins/UBC prize for Best New Fiction. In a room overlooking the square… FULL STORY
Well, well… not so well
It has been published simultaneously with another novel, Before We Go Extinct (Farrar Straus Giroux), for younger readers. In Karen… FULL STORY
“I don’t kai-yai around.”
A new UBC Anthropology Museum exhibit and book show from and about activist painter Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun shows the way…. FULL STORY
How to live on planet earth
Now Carolan has recalled his meetings with a remarkble man–Nanao Sakaki–in New World Dharma. Trevor Carolan’s first encounter with the… FULL STORY
A movie quiz for literati
After Field of Dreams by W.P. Kinsella, what else? At the turn of the century, Edith Iglauer’s 1988 memoir Fishing… FULL STORY
Dr. Zhivago, African style
As riveting as it is disturbing, Michael Wuitchik’s My Heart Is Not My Own is a return to that heart… FULL STORY
The origins of a modern classic
Former Vancouver Magazine editor Mac Parry has passed along Coupland’s overview of the famous book’s origins. With Coupland’s permission, we… FULL STORY
From tea set to war canoe
Before he knew about his Haida heritage, Bill Reid turned to carving ship models and miniatures at the age of… FULL STORY
The Native Voice is heard again
She also served as a volunteer advocate for First Nations clients in court even though she did not have a… FULL STORY
Another final volume from Bantock
But the success of Nick Bantock’s ‘cult’ series of art books known as Griffin & Sabine has no equal in… FULL STORY
From father to son
In the process he bridged the gap between two Trudeaus. While he was in Ottawa for the ceremony, veteran photographer… FULL STORY
Lost ‘n’ Harbour founder
The documentary has resurfaced twenty-six years later. Introduced by Rowland Lorimer, who co-created the Canadian Centre for Studies in Publishing,… FULL STORY
Dancing words or literary duets
Dance is physical ephemera on a stage. Writing is squiggles on a page. The Chan Centre has instigated a new… FULL STORY
