Faro writer nabs excellence award
Wise and wordy Sally Lee Baker weaves wicked words in Toni Tanager, the latest instalment in her...
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Mac’s Fireweed Books
Investigating lost bull semen
Marcelle Dubé has written the fifth novel of her Mendenhall Mystery Series titled The Forsaken Men. Her Mendenhall isn’t a subdivision of Whitehorse, but rather a fictive place in Manitoba.
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Strange things won from the midnight sun
In keeping with this column’s focus on Yukon related material, I’m returning this week to a...
Read More‘Canadian Ice Man’ tells his story
Editor’s Note: This is part two of two highlighting Kwädąy Dän Ts’ìnchį: Teachings from Long Ago Person Found. It was introduced during the Haines Junction Mountain Festival, which took place December 8 to 10. Part 1 is...
Read MorePeople who crafted the promise of Canada
Continuing this series of reviews of books that deal with the Canadian identity and, to an extent, with the idea of Canada at 150, we come to the latest book by former Berton House writer-in-residence Charlotte Gray.It’s called...
Read MoreFresh poetic summer reads
Auguries, by Clea Roberts Whitehorse author Clea Roberts newest book, Auguries, is published by Brick Books.The title “Auguries” refers to an ancient practice of The Romans: reading the future from the sky considering the birds...
Read MoreFrom stage to page
When Yukon playwright Patti Flather launched the book of her highly acclaimed play, Paradise, on a warm June evening at Baked Café in Whitehorse, Mac’s Fireweed Books sold out all their copies.“The thing about a play, is after...
Read MoreMemoirs of an Atlin School Marm
If there is any failing in Terry Milos’ excellent memoir North of Familiar: A Woman’s Story of Homesteading and Adventure in the Canadian Wilderness, it is this: nowhere within these wonderful 208 pages does she get...
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