McCaslin sounds off on teacher bashing
“Some serious teacher bashing is going on in British Columbia right now,” says McCaslin. Specifically, she feels Shelly Fralic, a… FULL STORY
Future primitive: a’ hunting we will go
Recently someone paid $350,000 to kill a rare black rhino in Namibia. Reviewer Giles Slade views trophy-hunting as a perverted… FULL STORY
Stouck wins Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize
The second annual prize for best scholarly book about British Columbia will be presented to Arthur Erickson biographer David Stouck… FULL STORY
They called her Number One
Given that Bev Sellars’ memoir, They Called Me Number One: Secrets and Survival at an Indian Residential School (Talonbooks), had… FULL STORY
Uneasy rider on the Dease
There is a longstanding Canadian practice that when things get too messy, painful and intensely complicated, we head for the… FULL STORY
Book Prizes’ 30th gala has five firsts
This year’s BC Book Prizes gala at the Renaissance Harbourside Hotel, hosted by Charles Demers, was unprecedented in at least… FULL STORY
Whelan foresaw Sherpa tragedy
In 2010, Dianne Whelan went to Base Camp on Mount Everest where she interviewed climbers, doctors and Sherpas, who had… FULL STORY
Remembering the Angola War
The civil war in Angola began in 1975 and was long, complicated and bloody — an African equivalent of Viet… FULL STORY
The lowdown on self-publishing
Anybody can publish a book these days. And there are lots of rip-off outfits lurking in the e-bushes to take… FULL STORY
Reefer madness is governmental
Two researchers have collected and analysed more than 2500 newspaper articles related to marijuana published in national, provincial and local… FULL STORY
Nobel winners on Stonehenge
Dr. Harry Karlinsky, Clinical Professor within the Department of Psychiatry at the University of British Columbia, is about to launch an… FULL STORY
Chief Bev Sellars wins Ryga Award
It wasn’t planned—but the memoir recounting abuse at the St. Joseph’s Residential School was released coincidentally with the proceedings of… FULL STORY
Secrets of the olive revealed
In her forthcoming new book Olive Odyssey: Searching for the Secrets of the Fruit That Seduced the World (Greystone $28.95),… FULL STORY
Getting a handle on Ranald
The unparalleled, bizarre and tempestuous life story of Ranald Macdonald has never been successfully told. Don Gayton hopes to be… FULL STORY
A hotbed for young writers turns 50
This year UBC Creative Writing marks its 50th anniversary as the longest, continuously operating department of its kind in Canada…. FULL STORY
The voyage of Komagata Maru
The ship had been chartered for $66,000 by Gurdit Singh Sarhali, a Sikh entrepreneur, as a direct challenge to a… FULL STORY
Lighthouse lit
By Caroline Woodward, photos by Jeff George It all started with a runaway Jack Russell terrier on the open deck… FULL STORY
The good, the bad & the just confused
Lots of authors are discreetly prolific—for lots of reasons. Maybe they’re shy, maybe they’re naïve. Or maybe they’re nostalgic for… FULL STORY
Secret graves
You’ve heard of Ellis Island, the processing station in New York harbour for millions of immigrants who came to America… FULL STORY
Tilly & her sisters
Has anyone noticed? We’ve had a flurry of books only about the lives of individual First Nations women of BC…. FULL STORY
