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The British Columbia Review (formerly Ormsby Review) is BC's online book review journal, the go-to place for BC writers, readers, reviewers, and publishers.
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#BookReview: Welcome to the Neighbourhood by Clea Young“Young writes with wit and great insight about characters who feel overlooked and out of sorts” House of Anansi Press thebcreview.ca/2025/05/16/254…




#BookReview: Iron Mike: My Life Behind the Bench by Mike Keenan with Scott Morrison “Iron Mike provides an insider’s view of the coaching life aimed at vindicating its author’s brutal winning philosophy and intimidating style” Random House Canada thebcreview.ca/2025/05/20/255…



#BookReview: Back Where I Came From by Taslim Jaffer and Omar Mouallem (eds.) “Each account describes a specific exploration of identity, but the physical distance traveled varies” Book*hug Press thebcreview.ca/2025/05/21/255…


#BookReview: Inside Outside by Faye Arcand “Women being most valued for their bodies—whether for sexual pleasure or procreation—is an underlying theme, one the author treats seriously” Blue Robin Bookkeeping, LLC. thebcreview.ca/2025/05/22/255…




#BookReview: Becoming the Harvest by Pauline Le Bel “Dying is presented as a physical connecting back to earth, much like the Mountain Avens seeds gently leaving the plant, and floating down to the ground to germinate” Caitlin Press thebcreview.ca/2025/05/23/255…



#BookReview: The Book of Records by Madeleine Thein “The very form of Thien’s novel, in its complex, shifting, mirroring interconnection with “reality,” plays off against many, many books themselves, both physical volumes and the words they contain” Knopf Canada


#BookReview: Wôpanâak / Seasons by Carrie Anne Vanderhoop, illustrated by Mangeshig Pawis-Steckley “It’s not foreboding, or a dangerous wilderness, though. Majestic and vast, nature is part of everyday life” Knopf Canada thebcreview.ca/2025/05/25/256…



#BookReview: allostatic load by Juni Désil “The writer of these poems has done all the work, and done it well, with sharp perception, detailed re-telling, and “picture-making” in the familiar sense of skilled, actualized metaphor, image snapshots, and use of simile” Talonbooks


#BookReview: Future Works by Jeff Derksen “It’s an interweaving. There are hydroelectric turbines, bauxite, Leonard Cohen, collected books and album jackets, aluminum, and Zooms. Even Derksen’s father cameos” Talonbooks thebcreview.ca/2025/05/27/256…


#BookReview: Indigenous Intellectual Property: An Interrupted Intergenerational Conversation by Various “These two books focus variously on a combination of critical legal theory, social advocacy, and the law itself—Aboriginal law and Indigenous law” University of Toronto Press


#BookReview: Creating Indigenous Property: Power, Rights and Relationships by Various “These two books focus variously on a combination of critical legal theory, social advocacy, and the law itself—Aboriginal law and Indigenous law” University of Toronto Press thebcreview.ca/2025/05/29/256…


#BookReview: Contemplation of a Crime by Susan Juby “In Contemplation of a Crime what begins as a healing retreat on a cozy West Coast island becomes a life-or-death struggle, and Helen is firmly in the middle of the action” HarperCollinsCa thebcreview.ca/2025/05/30/256…


#BookReview: Endling by Maria Reva “Maria Reva’s debut novel Endling is about how we find one another, and how we lose another—her characters, yes, but also writers and readers” Knopf Canada thebcreview.ca/2025/06/01/256…
