Boat by Katherine Knight
Katherine Knight’s photography of model boats and the stories about them made for a voyage of smooth sailing and long-lasting beauty.
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Breakaway: The PWHL and the Women Who Changed the Game by Karissa Donkin
This is going to be a key text in the history of hockey.
The Drive Across Canada by Mark Richardson
Richardson features conversations with people who are somehow connected to the more than seven thousand kilometres of asphalt.
Baldwin, Styron, and Me by Mélikah Abdelmoumen, translated by Catherine Khordoc
This expansive, evocative, and insightful book is part memoir, part imaginative reconstruction of history.
On Book Banning by Ira Wells
Canada’s annual Freedom to Read Week takes place during the last week of February. With this year marking the 40th anniversary of this important observance, it seems most appropriate that this book, part of Biblioasis’ “Field Notes” series, should be published midway through the week when we pay closer attention to the banning of books.
The Knot of My Tongue: Poems and Prose by Zehra Naqvi
The Knot of My Tongue: Prose and Poems is a complex and rewarding read that has drawn me back to the poems repeatedly.
Throwback: The Atlantic Salmon Treasury: Vol II
“Few fish have captured the souls and minds of men and women quite like wild Atlantic salmon.” — Bill Taylor, President, Atlantic Salmon Federation Talented novelists, editors and conservationists Monte Burk and Charles Gaines have compiled the best writing in the last half-century imploring the humble reader to behold a “curated selection of the most …
Mary Pratt: A Love Affair with Vision by Anne Koval
To gaze upon Mary Pratt’s work is to come face-to-face with another world, one that is brighter, more keenly observant, and more knowing, for embedded in the fractal structures of her oft chosen subjects: glass, aluminum, and plastic wrap, are reflections of time and space.
Einstein on Israel and Zionism
Einstein on Israel and Zionism proves to be an important counteragent to the politically-motivated, overly-simplistic and, often, racially-motivated messaging we hear from prominent figures in Western media.
The Good Walk: Creating New Paths on Traditional Prairie Trails by Matthew R. Anderson
This is a remarkable book about a remarkable — and ongoing — project.
The Coincidence Problem: Social Dispatches 1999-2022 by Stephen Osborne
Stephen Osborne is a long-time British Columbia-based literary raconteur and starter of bookish projects. In 1971,
Marrow Memory: Essays of Discovery by Margaret Nowaczyk
Marrow Memory: Essays of Discovery by Margaret Nowaczyk is a beautiful and generous collection of nonfiction.
A Perfect Day for a Walk by Bill Arnott
When I arrived, a tourist in Vancouver twenty years ago, it was apparent almost immediately how incredibly walkable the city is.
Excerpt: A Perfect Day for a Walk: The History, Cultures, and Communities of Vancouver, on Foot
Excerpted with permission from Arsenal Pulp Press
She Who Lies Above by Beatriz Hausner
Beatriz Hausner combines poetry and poetic prose, fiction and non-fiction and her own remarkable presence into a work of creative imagination. This book moves with cohesion and depth across a set of mysteries that have endured for over seventeen centuries.
