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Former NPA councillor Peter Ladner gets to the root of The Urban Food Revolution

Former NPA councillor Peter Ladner gets to the root of The Urban Food Revolution

By Matthew Burrows | December 15, 2011
Former Non-Partisan Association city councillor Peter Ladner has a new book, The Urban Food Revolution: Changing the Way We Feed Cities.
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Drawing out 2011's best graphic novels

Drawing out 2011's best graphic novels

By John Lucas | December 15, 2011
I certainly didn’t read every comic book or graphic novel published in 2011, and I don’t think I read any at all in which the characters were attired in capes and tights.
Critics make year-end book picks

Critics make year-end book picks

By Alexander Varty, Brian Lynch, Charlie Smith, David Chau, Jennifer Croll, and Michael Hingston | December 15, 2011
Here’s our annual roundup of the books that struck us as outstanding this year—not exhaustive, not definitive, but an accurate thumbnail of what grabbed us and didn’t let go.
Q&A: John Hodgman's That Is All takes a lighthearted look at apocalypse

Q&A;: John Hodgman's That Is All takes a lighthearted look at apocalypse

By Brian Lynch | December 6, 2011
John Hodgman says his new book is about the things 40-year-old men “really think about: the collapse of civilization and the end of human history, and also wine, and also sports.”
Books bring a season's worth of insights

Books bring a season's worth of insights

By Brian Lynch | December 1, 2011
With topics ranging from prehistoric tribes to modern-day hockey clubs, these wrapping-ready volumes travel back through time.
New tales for the young reader are sure to inspire

New tales for the young reader are sure to inspire

By Brian Lynch | December 1, 2011
Here are a trio of books sure to delight the young readers in your life this holiday season.
When Kathy is Keith: Surrey psychologist Wallace Wong releases transgender children's book

When Kathy is Keith: Surrey psychologist Wallace Wong releases transgender children's book

By Craig Takeuchi | November 28, 2011
Wallace Wong wrote the illustrated bookWhen Kathy is Keith, which addresses issues that transgender children face.
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Samantha Nutt shares tales of war’s impact around the world

Samantha Nutt shares tales of war’s impact around the world

By Yolande Cole | November 25, 2011
It was a sombre moment that first prompted Samantha Nutt to start asking questions about the impacts of war.
Antidepressants aren't required to get through midlife, says psychiatrist Fred Shane

Antidepressants aren't required to get through midlife, says psychiatrist Fred Shane

By Charlie Smith | November 24, 2011
Veteran North Vancouver psychiatrist Fred Shane has a great sense of humour, even while raising serious concerns about the widespread use of medications for mental illnesses.
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Cherie Smith JCCGV Jewish Book Festival ranges near and far

Cherie Smith JCCGV Jewish Book Festival ranges near and far

By Brian Lynch | November 23, 2011
Etgar Keret isn’t the only renowned international name at this year’s edition of the festival.
Tragedy and hope rule Etgar Keret's warped world

Tragedy and hope rule Etgar Keret's warped world

By Alexander Varty | November 23, 2011
Malign and nightmarish transformations are a constant in Etgar Keret’s creepily seductive micro-fictions.
Mount Everest echoes a nation's dark history in Wade Davis’s Into the Silence

Mount Everest echoes a nation's dark history in Wade Davis’s Into the Silence

By Brian Lynch | November 16, 2011
Books about the scaling of Himalayan peaks are inevitably about the frailty of the human frame and the nearness of death. This is doubly true of Davis's mesmerizing new work.
Author Allan Fotheringham cheats death

Author Allan Fotheringham cheats death

By Charlie Smith | November 16, 2011
When he shuffles into the lobby of the Wedgewood Hotel, Allan Fotheringham looks much smaller than I expected him to be.
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Adrienne Clarkson offers insights into how immigrants overcome trauma in Room for All of Us

Adrienne Clarkson offers insights into how immigrants overcome trauma in Room for All of Us

By Charlie Smith | November 7, 2011
The former governor general has profiled several Canadians who achieved a great deal despite facing serious setbacks in life.
In new book Photographs, Fred Herzog shows a Vancouver lost

In new book Photographs, Fred Herzog shows a Vancouver lost

By Mike Usinger | November 3, 2011
Many of the pictures in Photographs are from the 81-year-old photographer's 2007 Vancouver Art Gallery exhibit—the one that made him famous.
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