More to Tahiti than Paul Gauguin
“I started reading,” she says, “and soon fell in love, totally in love, like a teenager.” The initial reason Monique… FULL STORY
The Hunter and the Wild Girl
It is another story in which Holdstock delves into dark and unfamiliar worlds. by Cherie Thiessen Her first novel, The… FULL STORY
Sandy Shreve’s “Found Poems”
The poems are a tribute to her father and working life at sea eighty years ago. by Beverly Cramp Sandy… FULL STORY
Money is our underlying great divide
Now Talonbooks has published the Vancouver-made play, reviewed here by Paul Durras. Like so many friends, James and Marcus are… FULL STORY
How a budding archivist got her Bazzy
Here are Jean Barman’s remarks at UBC Library on June 9 as she received the third Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize. Thank… FULL STORY
Canada “dastardly” at G8 Summit
But Boyd also claims Canada has devolved from being a world leader to having second-rate standards in Cleaner, Greener, Healthier:… FULL STORY
Two Georges make a night
Over thousands of years, she said, the Inuit have earned “the right to be cold” to retain their health. On… FULL STORY
The pride of Tatlayoko
We’ve asked Cariboo-Chilcotin journalist Sage Birchwater to comment on Gerry Bracewell’s memoir, Gerry Get Your Gun (Caitlin $24.95), released by… FULL STORY
Foot Notes for women’s footie
Ricou has already seen some of the women’s World Cup matches, taking in a doubleheader at BC Place. “The Japan-Switzerland… FULL STORY
How to Grow a Farm
Saving Farmland: The Fight for Real Food (Rocky Mountain $25) is their instructive and inspiring story. According to Saving Farmland,… FULL STORY
The bicycle thief gets his due
Not so great at school, Glenn Ryder would arrive late each day to, ahem, borrow a bicycle. He needed transportation… FULL STORY
Amor De Cosmos, our second premier
Now a new biography by Gordon Hawkins, The De Cosmos Enigma (Ronsdale $17.95), brings the brilliant and odd character of… FULL STORY
Aislinn Hunter wins top fiction prize
Hunter’s novel was reviewed eight months ago in BC BookWorld. “This is a book about affection, ” she said. “…Our… FULL STORY
Pony Tales
It’s a horse race, of sorts. Nikki Tate has seven equestrian novels and now Julie White is catching up with… FULL STORY
Bring back the tar ‘n’ feathers
Nobody wants to read about poverty. So let’s ignore this article. Ever since slave owners in the United States wrote… FULL STORY
Ryga Award gets a boost
Shelley Wright’s Our Ice Is Vanishing / Sikuvut Nunguliqtuq: A History of Inuit, Newcomers, and Climate Change (McGill-Queens $39.95) has… FULL STORY
Comox looks gift houses in the mouth
It happens more than you think. A person or a group makes a donation to the public to preserve a… FULL STORY
Goodbye Dubai
“My childhood was not that strange,” he says. “Riding bikes, camping, being bored at church or school, being nervous around… FULL STORY
From the Azores to Brockton Point
As well, she profiles First Nations artist, Luke Marston, who created the monumental bronze sculpture. Suzanne Fournier is a journalist… FULL STORY
B.C. leads the way in homebirthing
These illustrated memoirs, all by mothers and fathers in British Columbia, are celebratory endorsements of the homebirth process. Preece’s “manifesta”… FULL STORY
