Books

Chelene Knight's Dear Current Occupant wins City of Vancouver Book Award

Book Stories

Seasonal books bolster cheer and sanity

Here’s a handful of suggestions to get you off the gift-buying hook so you can focus on all the eating and drinking you need to do.

Mudflat Dreaming revisits Habitat 76 and offers long view on local housing shortages

In an odd way for a city so restless, Vancouver’s history repeats itself constantly, as if on a loop.

Big Dreamers brings inspirational black history to grade schoolers

Activity book celebrates often-overlooked trailblazers and change-makers.

Erwan Larher channels Bataclan terror into literature

The French novelist was among the wounded, and while he recovered, he was certain of one thing: there was no way in hell he was going to write about it.

B.C.-based novelist Esi Edugyan wins the Scotiabank Giller Prize

She's captured this coveted prize twice—and she's only written three novels so far in her literary career.

Lovingly executed 80s Redux tracks down old friends for those who had even a sliver of musical taste back in the day

Admit it: you really don't care what the Colonel is up to today.

Excerpt from The Kids in the Hall: One Dumb Guy, by Paul Myers

From 1989 to 1995, discerning comedy lovers in Canada and the U.S. were treated to The Kids in the Hall.

Of poetry, pain, and survival: Al Purdy, Charles Bukowski, and Rodney DeCroo

There’s lots to say about Al Purdy, but it can all be sorted out as you read this interview with the Pittsburgh-born Rodney DeCroo.

Justin Trudeau’s grand bargain with Big Oil exposed in Donald Gutstein's The Big Stall

The retired SFU communications professor is an old hand when it comes to dissecting the activities of neoliberal think tanks.

Georgia Straight writer Travis Lupick among four local authors in running for City of Vancouver Book Award

Chelene Knight, Erín Moure, and Rachel Rose are also nominated. They'll find out who wins on December 8.

Pop-culture icon Stan Lee of Marvel Comics fame has died at 95

Characters Lee co-created included Spider-Man, the Hulk, Doctor Strange, the X-Men, Iron Man, Thor, Daredevil, the Fantastic Four, Black Panther, and Ant-Man.

New Peter Wall Institute book Memory peels back the layers of history in a multitude of ways

The collection of scholarly essays focus on everything from genetics and astrophysics to Indigenous history and anthems. Readers also learn about mass extinctions, aggressive colonialism, and so much more.

Poems of Michael Turner's 9X11 turn a tender eye to small disasters

In unpretentious and straightforward prose, Turner guides us into confronting the confusion and cacophony of the city.

French Pastry 101: Beaucoup's Betty Hung demystifies the complexity of French baking in new cookbook

It includes 60 straightforward but delicious recipes for beginners.

Ian Waddell's Take the Torch reveals plenty of little-known details about late 20th-century Canadian political history

The former NDP MP and MLA has written a lively memoir that offers new insights into some major events.

In Drug Wars, former U.K. cop Neil Woods tells a story in which prohibition perpetuates corruption and addiction

The history of the England's war on drugs recounts a decades-long series of missteps and unintended consequences that have ruined countless lives and failed to address demand for illicit narcotics.