The British Columbia Review

#BookReview: The Taking of Vimy Ridge by Carla-Jean Stokes “a penetrating look at the public perception of the battle—and, strikingly, makes the case that a single photographer played a crucial role in creating the “myth” of Vimy Ridge”
thebcreview.ca/2025/11/11/2...
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#BookReview: Rough & Messy Justice by W. Keith Regular “this historical work recounts a bold train robbery, a brazen shoot-out, and a bungled court case presented in a detailed and authentic fashion”
thebcreview.ca/2025/11/10/2...
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#BookReview: The Hunger We Pass Down by Jen Sookfong Lee “I don’t love the smell of napalm in the morning, but I do love novels with intergenerational trauma and divorced mothers who don’t remotely miss their mediocre husbands”
thebcreview.ca/2025/11/09/2...

#BookReview: Finding the Phoenix by Judith Lepore “It’s one thing to know that these stories are out there—and another thing entirely to get to know someone through the disintegration and reintegration of their home, their community, and their dreams”
thebcreview.ca/2025/11/07/2...

#BookReview: Trading Fate by Graeme Menzies “looking for a short foray into our country’s past, you need look no further than this well-written factual account of the key historical points that made us the sovereign nation we are today”
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thebcreview.ca/2025/11/06/2...

#BookReview: Comfort Food by Spencer Watts “I’d recommend this book to anyone seeking rich, delectable, nostalgic food with an international twist. I enjoyed cooking from Comfort Food and serving the dishes to friends and family”
thebcreview.ca/2025/11/06/2...

#BookReview: Miya Wears Orange by Wanda John-Kehewin (illustrated by Erika Rodriguez Medina) “For a picture book, Miya Wears Orange approaches a complex and challenging topic with admirable candour”
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thebcreview.ca/2025/11/06/2...

#BookReview: The Unfinished World by Marilyn Bowering “a book that blends the real and the unreal into something more myth than fable, more real than magic, for all its occasionally fantastical elements”
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thebcreview.ca/2025/11/05/2...

#BookReview: The Carbon Tax Question by Thomas F. Pedersen “His book will prove vital to understanding the crashing fall of the carbon tax in Canada, and to the sober assessment of the future of climate policy internationally”
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thebcreview.ca/2025/11/04/2...

#BookReview: Love’s Lonely Pursuits by Marina Sonkina “What love is to the characters certainly remains a mystery, and in most cases, the characters are quite lonely...the stories are the opposite of romance even though love and connection are the prevailing desires”
thebcreview.ca/2025/11/04/2...

#BookReview: Notes From The Ward by Steffi Tad-Y “In Notes From The Ward, Steffi Tad-Y chronicles her experience with psychosis from her first admittance into the psychiatric ward to her formal discharge”
thebcreview.ca/2025/11/03/2...

Extraordinary Women of the Okanagan by Adriana A. Davies “In terms of the development of the disciplines of history and science, as well as the development of the arts and culture in British Columbia, the Okanagan region contributed enormously”
thebcreview.ca/2025/10/31/2...

#BookReview: Revolve by Bal Khabra “Female orgasms, emotionally intelligent men with friends, and hand-knit gloves given without incurring the Boyfriend Sweater Curse are all present in spades in Revolve”
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thebcreview.ca/2025/10/31/2...

#BookReview: Evelyn Lau: “Cursing, Flailing” “The British Columbia Review would like to thank Evelyn Lau and Biblioasis for permission to reprint the poem”
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thebcreview.ca/2025/10/30/2...

#BookReview: My Theatre of Memory: A Life in Words by Adriana A. Davies “It offers distinct and detailed descriptions of various aspects of her life and work with a range of locations which could be of interest to a variety of readers”
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thebcreview.ca/2025/10/30/2...

#BookReview: The Atoner of Alberni by Edward Cepka “In some ways The Atoner of Alberni, the debut novel from Port Alberni-born writer Edward Cepka, serves as something of a love letter to the places where he grew up”
thebcreview.ca/2025/10/30/2...

#BookReview: Talking Reform: Making and Unmaking a Life in Canada’s Prisons by Dany Lacombe with Mac McKinney “she worked with Mac through bi-weekly interviews to assist him in telling his life story”
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thebcreview.ca/2025/10/29/2...

#FilmReview: Racing to keep our language alive: H̓ágṃ́ṇtxv Qṇtxv Tx̌ (We’re all we got) (The Guardian, 2025) “…a wonderful, positive, forward-looking film which deserves more attention than it has so far received.”
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thebcreview.ca/2025/10/28/2...

#FilmReview: Sugarcane (National Geographic, 2024) “It has received rave reviews and was nominated for an Academy Award. However, some have questioned its lack of evidence and sought to debunk its key allegations”
thebcreview.ca/2025/10/28/2...

#BookReview: Woodbine Grove by Ryan O’Dowd “Woodbine Grove’s a haunted sort of place and—dead or alive—the apparitions seem both restless and vengeful”
thebcreview.ca/2025/10/27/2...

#BookReview: 21 Things You Need to Know About Indigenous Self-Government by Bob Joseph “Throughout, Joseph’s book is striking for its pragmatic, clear-eyed description of workable solutions for thorny issues related to Indigenous governance and jurisdiction”
thebcreview.ca/2025/10/26/2...

#BookReview: November, November by Isabella Wang “It evokes a keen awareness of the scales of time and universal structure, from constellations of stars to the architecture of a leaf, to the individual passing of a year...”
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thebcreview.ca/2025/10/26/2...

#BookReview: I Would Like To Say Thank You by Joseph Dandurand “Dandurand defies divisions in this work, including those imposed by colonial history, and even rigid lines between life and death”
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thebcreview.ca/2025/10/26/2...

#BookReview: The Bee Book by Ann Rosenberg “Virtually all these vignettes (and nearly everything else in the book) are explored through the metaphor of the beehive and its various inhabitants”
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thebcreview.ca/2025/10/24/2...

#BookReview: Staging Prison Theatre in Canada: Setting the Spotlight on William Head on Stage by Thana Ridha and Sylvie Frigon “I think anyone—academic or not—could enjoy this book as a work of nonfiction”
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thebcreview.ca/2025/10/23/2...

#BookReview: White Space, Gray Areas & Black Swans: Stories of Getting Along (or Not) by Donna M. Henningson “Ultimately, it aims to create empathetic humans who will treat each conflict as an opportunity to grow and mature”
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thebcreview.ca/2025/10/23/2...

#BookReview: Humans: The 300,000-Year Struggle for Equality by Alvin Finkel “Alvin Finkel wants us to remember the past, think more positively about our current predicament and be more optimistic about the future”
thebcreview.ca/2025/10/22/2...

#BookReview: A Season for Spies–Lane Winslow Prequel by Iona Whishaw “Out in the street, with bombs likely on the way and her new assignment flipping about in her translator brain, her first thought: buy Christmas gifts for her grandparents”
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thebcreview.ca/2025/10/22/2...

#BookReview: Reflections on Eating Bitterness exhibition by Christine Cheung “the metaphor of “Eating Bitterness” which is derived from a Chinese proverb about resilience: ‘eating’ bitterness – as in experiencing adversity – often results in strength”
thebcreview.ca/2025/10/21/2...

#BookReview: Soundtrack: A Lyric Memoir by Michael V. Smith “In Soundtrack, there’s music, music everywhere at the point where these two unequal forces interact”
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thebcreview.ca/2025/10/21/2...