Few natural events are as dramatic as an earthquake, and more than a thousand of them shake our planet daily. In her latest book, B.C. teacher and author Cynthia Pratt Nicolson gives a solid overview ... Read More »
January 22, 2004
B.C. author and former educator Ellen Schwartz has produced this handy resource for kids who decide to go vegetarian on their own initiative. Unlike those whose parents adopt the same eating style, vegetarian children with ... Read More »
January 22, 2004
In his poetry, short stories, and his novel, River Thieves, Michael Crummey makes effortless music on the page. Like a sculptor giving equal attention to the immediate carved surface and the overall shape he has ... Read More »
January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry
The Wife’s Account is Esta Spalding’s fourth book of poetry in just over seven years. In the vividly imagistic style that has established her reputation, the collection (we are told on the dust jacket) encapsulates ... Read More »
January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry
Effective tour guides to that other country – the past – generally share two attributes: top-notch research skills and imagination. Longtime journalist Peter Stursberg’s strong investigative skills are evident throughout his account of his ancestor’s ... Read More »
January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
Cultural commentators have been trumpeting a Canadian literary renaissance for the past decade or so, citing lucrative foreign sales, international prizes, and worldwide media attention for our literary fiction. Canadian is hot, the headlines read. ... Read More »
January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays
Despite extensive outdoor experience writing for such publications as Alaska Magazine and Canoe and Kayak, writer and photographer Monique Dykstra bravely admits that she wasn’t sure what she was getting herself into when she decided ... Read More »
January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Reference
In the aftermath of the dot-com bust comes Darren Wershler-Henry, an irreverent voice dancing on the dead bones of e-business hype and devalued high-tech stocks. Free as in Speech and Beer is a wonderful primer ... Read More »
January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
Philippe Gigantes, a Greek-born Canadian journalist, political commentator, and senior civil servant in Trudeau’s government, offers a thought-provoking and accessible survey of world history in his new book, Power and Greed. As the title suggests, ... Read More »
January 22, 2004 | Filed under: History
Pioneering science fiction author and political activist Judith Merril was not one to mince words or follow convention, so it’s no surprise that she bluntly states in her introduction to Better to Have Loved that ... Read More »
January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
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