#Interview: The Teachings of Mutton with Liz Hammond-Kaarremaa “Liz Hammond-Kaarremaa is a co-author, along with many Coast Salish people who added illustrations, writing, and oral history to do with the Coast Salish woolly dog Mutton” thebcreview.ca/2026/05/15/2...

#BookReview: Barefoot Gringo by George Bowering “It tracks George Bowering’s education in Mexico, from famous poet itching in the constraints of academic life to an old guy in a wheelchair in a Mexico in which everyone knows his name” thebcreview.ca/2026/05/13/2... ubcpress.bsky.social

#BookReview: The Alchemy of Paradise by Susannah M. Smith “When The Alchemy of Paradise grabbed me by the heart and mind, it was when the narrator turned personal and ‘real’ about her struggles with family and a stable selfhood” thebcreview.ca/2026/05/13/2... invisibooks.bsky.social

#BookReview: The Coffin of Honey by Geoffrey D. Morrison “Glitteringly fractal, the narrative plays like a rigorous study on its own narrative, imperial history and artistic praxis...” buff.ly/GTtFmsH coachhousebooks.bsky.social

#BookReview: The False Creek Murder by Roy Innes “There is a murderer on the run and it’s not clear that the forces of law and order are on the right trail. Vancouver’s homicide squad and the RCMP’s narcotics division team up..but they face formidable killers” buff.ly/ldYH8Ej newestpress.bsky.social

#BookReview: Homebound by Portia Elan “Homebound by Portia Elan manages to be many things: nostalgic, futuristic, tragic, tender, and above all, a startlingly moving debut” thebcreview.ca/2026/05/08/2... scribnerbooks.bsky.social

#BookReview: Lament for a Literature by Richard Stursberg “Richard Stursberg’s Lament for a Literature suggests there is a causal link between the parlous financial state of Canadian publishing, a less robust Canadian literature, and a consequent decline in Canadian national culture” buff.ly/U0CSlPi

#BookReview: Welcome to Sunny Town by Théodora Armstrong “Maggie is something of a mess, but one who can turn a phrase and puncture everything from her city’s cosmopolitan aspirations to her prof’s staggering ick-factor” thebcreview.ca/2026/05/07/2...

#BookReview: Monarch by S.E. Hume “The stunning geography and capricious weather are a lovely backdrop for the inspiring story of the plucky butterfly’s migration from California” thebcreview.ca/2026/05/05/2...

#BookReview: Gander by Nikki Bergstresser “The text proper emphasizes the widespread generosity of the residents—down to the bus drivers who interrupted their strike to provide transportation—and the cultural activities...” buff.ly/aOUL1br

#BookReview: Just A Minute: Why Humans Tell Time by Kirstie Hudson and Monique Polak “Victoria-based Kirstie Hudson and Monique Polak examine these and many other questions in their far-reaching examination of time” thebcreview.ca/2026/05/05/2... orcabook.bsky.social

#BookReview: John Robson: British Columbian by Ivan E. Antak “Indeed, as a social and political reformer, Robson played a driving role in the establishment of a distinctly Canadian brand of liberalism on the Pacific coast” thebcreview.ca/2026/05/04/2...

#BookReview: Riverwork by Lisa Robertson “This river flowed alongside the Seine when laundresses worked to clean garments in it until its disappearance after centuries of industrial pollution” thebcreview.ca/2026/05/04/2... coachhousebooks.bsky.social

#BookReview: Small Latin and Less Greek: Essay by Christopher Levenson “Those words were used by Ben Jonson of Shakespeare, but if that was true of Shakespeare, how much more so of most of us today!” thebcreview.ca/2026/05/03/2...

#BookReview: Nature-First Cities by Cam Brewer, Herb Hammond, and Sean Markey “Nature-First Cities offers a reconsideration of the relationship between our communities, cities, and neighborhoods, co-existing with our natural environment” thebcreview.ca/2026/05/01/2... ubcpress.bsky.social

#Book Review: “With a new book scheduled to be released in the fall, author and curator emeritus at the Royal British Columbia Museum Robert D. Turner is continuing his chronicling of British Columbia’s history of rail and steam” thebcreview.ca/2026/05/01/2...

#Book Review: Exploring Montréal:151 Best Buildings by Robin Ward “The photography is excellent and selection of buildings and civic statuary or artwork both astute and appropriate to exploring the built environment of Canada’s one-time leading metropolis” buff.ly/MNbHXKG douglasmcintyre.bsky.social

#Book Review: Reconciling by Larry Grant, in conversation with Scott Steedman “Reconciling is the story of Larry Grant, of Musqueam and Chinese parentage, who takes us on a very personal excursion around Vancouver and the Fraser Valley and beyond with Steedman” buff.ly/R7JMXUA ecwpress.bsky.social

#Book Review: Spruce to Cedar by Lasänmą “Spruce to Cedar is a debut collection of poems that anchors readers in the poet’s childhood home of Dakwakada, or Haines Junction, Yukon” thebcreview.ca/2026/04/29/2...

#Book Review: Coming Home from the Candy Factory by Jane Byers “The book is a collection of vignettes, essays, and poetry…These are stories of inspection, vigilance, witnessing, and recording” thebcreview.ca/2026/04/28/2... caitlinpress.bsky.social

#Book Review: Staff Picks for Invertebrates by Zoe Dickinson "...is a bookseller’s musings on life laced with nature imagery. With her debut full-length collection, Zoe Dickinson paints an impressionistic day-in-the-life with her poems” thebcreview.ca/2026/04/28/2... guernicaeditions.bsky.social

#Book Review: From Ragged Ass Road to Rideau Hall by Whit Fraser “As he recounts in this memoir, he travelled with Justice Thomas Berger as he visited many remote communities to try to understand what concerned them about the massive pipeline project” buff.ly/pdS27Xi douglasmcintyre.bsky.social

#Book Review: Gold Star by Emma McKenna “There’s just not enough sex in Canadian poetry. Never fear, though. Emma McKenna is here to fill the breach with her newest book, Gold Star” thebcreview.ca/2026/04/27/2... bookhugpress.bsky.social

#Book Review: Boom Times in Chilliwack by Merlin Bunt “As a chronicler of that hometown, Chilliwack could not ask for a more devoted one...The book is the result of Mr. Bunt’s years of compiling stories about his home town” buff.ly/Zm0tYNu harbourpublishing.bsky.social

#Book Review: A False and Fatal Claim by Iona Whishaw “Given Winslow’s inquisitive nature, what starts as a mere inquiry about the whereabouts of the hat owner turns into a thrilling adventure that spans years and generations” thebcreview.ca/2026/04/25/2... touchwooded.bsky.social

#Essay: A ‘Lover of Beauty’ on his way to Yale: Revisiting the 1868 Yale Convention by Sam Kiiskila “This paper will examine the culmination of the League’s efforts: the 1868 Yale Convention” thebcreview.ca/2026/04/24/2...

#BookReview: The Caretaker by Marcus Kliewer “When I finished the last page and closed the book, I came away satisfied. And the ending? That, I really liked” thebcreview.ca/2026/04/24/2... simonschusterca.bsky.social

#BookReview: Like a River Divides the Earth: Five Stories by Dora Dueck “The five stories in this collection span both time and space, with settings that range from twentieth-century Toronto to the Russian steppes” thebcreview.ca/2026/05/01/2...

#BookReview: When the World Was Twice as Big by Aaron Cully Drake “This sequel takes readers from a point of relative peace to a crisis. Freddy flees his hometown for a rural existence and gradually decides where be truly belongs” thebcreview.ca/2026/03/26/t... nightwoodeditions.bsky.social

#BookReview: The Call of the Rift: Fuse by Jae Waller “[T]he epic conclusion to an action-packed, magic-filled saga of love, loss, and becoming who you were meant to be” thebcreview.ca/2026/04/23/2... ecwpress.bsky.social

#BookReview: Gaia’s Revolution by Nina Munteanu “Facing government opposition for their environmental activism in Germany, Eric and later Damien Vogel move to Canada to create a new world, one that will reverse and eventually eradicate humanity’s impact on the environment” buff.ly/4u40awE

#BookReview: Keeping the Books by Ross Peck “Keeping the Books is a family history par excellence, the best of its genre that I have read, which traces the life of Alene Peck, a homesteader’s daughter in the Peace River district of British Columbia” thebcreview.ca/2026/04/21/2...

#BookReview: The Fall-Down Effect by Liz Johnston “Against this natural background, the debut novelist also explores how a thriving family is a unique ecosystem with its own fragility and resilience” thebcreview.ca/2026/04/21/2... bookhugpress.bsky.social

#BookReview: The Second Greatest Show on Earth by Darcy Ingram “But while he lived he was the creator of perhaps the second greatest animal show of his time, after P.T. Barnum’s circus” thebcreview.ca/2026/04/20/2... mcgillqueensup.bsky.social

#BookReview: Heaven Has Eyes: Stories by Philip Holden “Overall, the stories are complicated and dense. They are underpinned by psychological and philosophical considerations, and would advise readers to learn a little bit about Singapore’s history” thebcreview.ca/2026/04/20/2...

Jordan Abel: “[Untitled]” “Back in November 2024—a lifetime ago, if you follow the global news cycle—Vancouver-born queer Nisga’a writer Jordan Abel, whose poetry volume Injun won the Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize in 2017, was interviewed about Empty Spaces” thebcreview.ca/2026/04/18/2...

#BookReview: My Best Friend Is Gluten-Free by Jannell Lo “It’s handy to have a go-to cookbook on the shelf that I can browse through when I’m looking for a GF recipe.” buff.ly/Air8nf6 penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social

#BookReview: The East End Rules: An East Van Memoir by Norman Nawrocki “Norman Nawrocki’s latest book effort is an easy-to-read, memoirish romp about his first twenty-some years of growing up in Vancouver’s East End” thebcreview.ca/2026/04/16/2...

#BookReview: th book uv lost passwords 1 by bill bissett “The publisher calls it a “novel.” I’d say, it’s a bit of a road trip with bill” thebcreview.ca/2026/04/15/2... talonbooks.bsky.social

#BookReview: Earle Birney: Conrad Kain by Ron Dart “The sheer momentum, graphic rock slab images and tragic tension packed into the epic poem make it the definitive classic of mountain culture in Canada” thebcreview.ca/2026/04/14/2...

#BookReview: Growing My Way Home by Jenn Ashton “The twenty stories are based mainly on Ashton’s years as a teenage runaway and young mother. They move quickly through some adult events and then end with Ashton now, in her early sixties” thebcreview.ca/2026/04/14/2... talonbooks.bsky.social

#BookReview: Toronto, September 1967 by Ken Klonsky “I drove to Toronto in the five-year-old blue Plymouth I used at UVM, its body cancered by Vermont’s salted roads. While it was liberating to be leaving my riven country, I was plenty nervous about the unknowns that lay ahead” buff.ly/3Pri3Rt

#BookReview: Real Grownup by Elizabeth Bachinsky “Bachinsky’s new book of poetry is shot through with tenderness not only for the befuddlement of middle age but for the foolishness of youth” thebcreview.ca/2026/04/12/2... nightwoodeditions.bsky.social

#BookReview: Break My Heart, Liverpool by Pamela McGarry “The slim book’s opening paragraph telegraphs plenty: physical attraction, a romance, a marriage, and a funeral” thebcreview.ca/2026/04/11/2...

#BookReview: Where The Earth Meets The Sky by Louise K. Blight “She reflects in hindsight on the Antarctic summer that brought her to Cape Royds to study Adélie penguins with David Ainley, after the untimely death of her sister and father” thebcreview.ca/2026/04/10/2... doubledaybooks.bsky.social

#BookReview: Super Castle Fun Park by Daniel Zomparelli “In the context of Super Castle Fun Park, Daniel Zomparelli offers readers a world where ghosts (be them literal or metaphorical) are omnipresent features in the lives of the novel’s ensemble cast” buff.ly/GCskaLM arsenalpulp.bsky.social

#BookReview: The Long Sixties: Stories from the New Left edited by Jim Harding “Reading these passionate memories...suggests to me that the seeds of what we need to fuel fire-in-belly activism today...can be found partly in these pages” buff.ly/kHUSjLw fernpub.bsky.social

#BookReview: Chinatown Vancouver by Donna Seto “what she found was the key to understanding herself as a continuum, the daughter of a family that crossed an ocean to guarantee freedom of expression and domestic comfort to its young” buff.ly/F5eZR9q houseofanansipress.bsky.social

#BookReview: Rust and Bone by Dietrich Kalteis “Taking place in 1945 during the freezing-cold final months of World War Two, the novel Rust and Bone follows the daily struggles of two innocent victims of war, Jakob Fritsch and Frida Beckmann” thebcreview.ca/2026/04/07/2... ecwpress.bsky.social

#BookReview: Fishes of the Strait of Georgia by Dick Beamish & Jeff Marliave “If you have ever caught a fish whose species was unknown to you, or found a strange fish on the seashore, or simply wanted a reference book on our fish...” buff.ly/jPc5v2j harbourpublishing.bsky.social