Memoir & Biography

★ The Art of Looking Back: A Painter, an Obsession, and Reclaiming the Gaze

Poet and essayist Theresa Kishkan was just 23 when she met painter Jack Wilkinson at an art opening on Vancouver Island. Wilkinson, who was the same age as her father, became enchanted by her. “Was ... Read More »

July 29, 2026 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Memoir & Biography, Reviews

See-Me Street: My Homeless Indigenous Journey

By DerRic Starlight

In DerRic Starlight’s memoir, the Gemini Award–winning puppeteer and comedian is our guide to a world few would choose to enter by choice: life on the streets of Calgary, Edmonton, and Lethbridge. See-Me Street: My ... Read More »

July 22, 2026 | Filed under: Indigenous Peoples, Memoir & Biography, Reviews

★ The Lost Season: A Memoir of Infertility, Motherhood, and the Worry and Work Demanded of Women

By Stacey May Fowles

These days, the term “liminality” is used to describe just about any place or thing that gives a sense of ambiguity or unease, but when folklorist Arnold van Gennep first coined it back in 1909, ... Read More »

June 3, 2026 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

Jelly, Baby: Essays on Disability and Vulnerability

By Therese Estacion

One of the long-held concerns of the international disability community is that the non-disabled world prefers to keep disabled writers confined to a prescribed box wherein we write endlessly and non-confrontationally about loss but never ... Read More »

April 22, 2026 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

Spying on America

By Bill Gaston

With his new book Spying on America, B.C. writer and retired writing professor Bill Gaston chronicles an almost two-week, early-summer car journey “through a bunch of red states, during Covid, between two Trumps.” Despite the ... Read More »

April 8, 2026 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews, Travel

Unshaming: A Memoir of Recovery, Relapse, and What Comes After

By Jowita Bydlowska

In 2013, Jowita Bydlowska released her groundbreaking memoir Drunk Mom, an unflinching account of how new motherhood sparked her full-blown return to alcoholism. The book was a vital addition to literature on the topic of ... Read More »

February 24, 2026 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts

By Margaret Atwood

There’s an old joke that goes something like this: How many people do you know who went to Harvard? If you’re not sure, the answer is zero, because anyone who went there will make certain ... Read More »

November 4, 2025 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

What to Feel, How to Feel: Lyric Essays on Neurodivergence and Neurofatherhood

By Shane Neilson

In the early 1940s, an anonymous patron commissioned Anaïs Nin and several of her literary chums to write erotica for a dollar a page. This man, who Nin referred to as The Collector, gave ... Read More »

June 18, 2025 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Health & Self-help, Memoir & Biography, Reviews

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