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Summer books find light in language and nature

Books remain the inexpensive, rich resource they’ve always been, and Canadian authors and publishers need your support right now.

Canada Book Fund looks to build innovation and common purpose in publishing industry during COVID-19 pandemic

Perhaps by design, these new supports reflect the sense of common purpose that the pandemic has stirred up in society at large.

Updated 2009 book by Dr. Bonnie Henry shows consistent message: the best ways out of a pandemic are pretty simple

This tour of the microbial world has leaped from the Science section straight into General Interest, in the deepest sense of that term.

Vivek Shraya joins Vancouver Writers Fest for local stop on her virtual book tour

Expect more than a digital version of sedate lit event: she'll also be performing “music from the book’s soundtrack”.

Bold new titles search for light in uncertain times

Spring literary gatherings, along with the schedules of some major publishers, may be on hold right now, but we’ve seen the release of powerful new titles over the past couple of...

Desmond Cole's new book The Skin We're In exposes Canadian complacency about racist violence

Canada likes to think it’s past the whole nasty business of race, but Cole’s account wants to show this complacency to be a mask for patterns of abuse throughout the country.

Tame your gift list with books that plumb ocean depths and swing at hockey tradition

Here are a few suggestions that may help you out of the gift-book bind.

At Vancouver Podcast Festival, Christopher Goffard's series Dirty John explores dark psychology

The seasoned reporter peeled apart the case of John Meehan, a sociopathic con man whose career cut across the U.S. for decades.

The Book That Changed Your Life: Philip Huynh

"Some books seem to land in my hands right when I need them."

The Book That Changed Your Life: Johnnie Christmas

"It was black mythology, Floridian mythology, of killer hurricanes and square-toed death."