Articles

2000

By Jean Baird | April 22, 2013

Jean Baird thinks about meta-reading and the 2000 Booker Prize.

1999

By Jean Baird | April 21, 2013

Jean Baird surveys prizes and prize-money, and reports on the 1999 Booker Prize.

1998

By Jean Baird | April 20, 2013

Jean Baird reads the Bookers for 1998, and analyses Canada’s Giller Prize.

1997

By Jean Baird | April 19, 2013

Jean Baird discusses the B.C. Book Prizes and reports on the 1997 Booker Prize.

It’s the End of the Semester… as we know it

By Stan Persky | April 18, 2013

Stan Persky looks at the 2012-13 teaching season. Everything from “real education” to MOOCs and the Virtual U.

Somebody’s Horse

By George Bowering | April 17, 2013

George Bowering, as a kid, encountering death and poetry in the Southern Okanagan Valley..

Media Studies: Heart and Soul

By Norbert Ruebsaat | April 16, 2013

In Norbert Ruebsaat’s Media Studies column, a teacher and student discuss “God.”

1996

By Jean Baird | April 15, 2013

Jean Baird on the 1996 Booker Prize, and the issue of “genre ghettos.”

1995

By Jean Baird | April 14, 2013

Jean Baird’s report on the 1995 Booker Prize, and a look at how the Writers Trust organizes literary prizes.

1994

By Jean Baird | April 14, 2013

Jean Baird’s report on the 1994 Booker Prize (with a little help from her friends).