With a mix of essays, poetry, and photographs, Knight has created a vivid account of the turbulent childhood she spent in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.
As the acclaimed and sometimes controversial author explains to the Straight, the theme of losing one’s original voice and vision with age is a thread that connects several of the essays in his latest collection.
Few local residents realize that authors in this province have distinguished themselves by producing more thoughtful and original books on climate change than anywhere else in North America.
A new book by the Environics Research Group founder analyzes polling data and demographic trends to explore whether a candidate like Donald Trump could rise to power in Canada.
Her debut novel was inspired by the 2010 MV Sun Sea incident, when a Thai cargo ship ferrying 492 Sri Lankan asylum seekers was intercepted off the coast of British Columbia.
Canada’s war on drugs began in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, as Susan Boyd recounts in her new book, Busted: An Illustrated History of Drug Prohibition in Canada.
In the summer of 1983, CBC producer Stephen Wadhams spent eight weeks crisscrossing Britain and Spain interviewing more than 70 people who had known the revered author of 1984.
