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How The Beachcombers and Danger Bay Brought B.C.’s Coast to Life on Screen

From Sam Wiebe’s new book Shot in Vancouver.

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Vitality: Iconic Images, Hidden Stories—A New Book Celebrates Vancouver’s Chinatown Through Fred Herzog’s Lens and Voices of the Community

All the more real.

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How Literary Icon Malcolm Lowry Came to Call Vancouver Home

Dollarton featured prominently in Lowry’s life and, though unnamed, in Under the Volcano.

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Mystery, Biography, and a Guide to Local Fish Make Up Some of MONTECRISTO’s Most Anticipated British Columbian Books of 2025

A local reading list for the new year.

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The Gitxsan Knowledge Keeper Writing Illustrated Children’s Books to Teach About the Land

Hetxw’ms Gyetxw’s new book focuses on bees.

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Anthropologist Wade Davis Takes a Magnifying Glass to Modernity

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19 of Our Favourite Arts Stories From 2023

Painters, novelists, photographers, singers, and other creative people share the how and the why of what they do.

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23 of Our Favourite B.C. Books From 2023

From travel memoirs to graphic novels to wine guides.

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What’s It Like to Be a Small-Town High School Principal? Peter Mansbridge’s New Book Finds Out

In an excerpt from How Canada Works, a principal in Fort St. James shares both the highs and the lows of his daily working life.