Book Reviews

Art. Beauty. Paris. The Italian countryside. Okay, there’s a bit of Canada and a marble quarry in David Macfarlane’s The Figures of Beauty too, but

Five teenage girls run author Ashley Little’s Vancouver in Anatomy of a Girl Gang. At the very least, the self-christened “Black Roses” run rough-shod over

It’s been said that heroes are only as good as their villains. Batman had the Joker, Austin Powers had Dr. Evil, and Luke Sykwalker had

As an avid devourer of pop culture, I occasionally like to pry myself back and take a critical look at what it is I am

A recovered alcohol addict, author Monique Gray Smith gives back to communities like the ones that have helped her overcome her addiction by sharing some

Two years after the release of his debut novel Losing Dominion, Vancouver-based writer Mark McLean revisits themes of journeying, searching (however literal or metaphorical), personal

Nature, wilderness, “wilderness,” the great outdoors – from painting to literature to photography, the Canadian landscape and human’s (or man’s, more accurately) relationship to it has

One day at a time. A lot has happened in the relatively young, 125-year history of Vancouver, and that’s how Jesse Donaldson wants to show

Over three-and-a-half decades ago, Paris-born artist and designer Françoise Mouly and cartoonist Art Spiegelman began their revolution of the comic book format. Long before Spiegelman

It’s a hard living in the secluded blue-collar neighbourhood of Red Hook, Brooklyn, even in summertime. Two fifteen-year-olds June and Val refuse to surrender themselves

Language, like culture, is continually subject to a biological evolution – the result is often spontaneous, surprising and remarkable, as long-time author and logophile Howard

When it comes to author Stephen King, really, what’s left to say? The man is a literary powerhouse, and his stories will be forever engrained