A startling and unexpectedly rich collection of images from Vancouver's pre-gentrification past.
Vancouver may be a youngster among major cities, but it has a rich and beguiling history. Past Tense Vancouver ...
A lively, wide-ranging visual history of muscular men from around the world.
Over the last 100 years, the image of the muscular man has known no boundaries; it has been the object of envy, admiration, ...
On February 28, 2013, Benedict XVI became the first pope in nearly 600 years to resign. In abandoning a role that nearly every one of his predecessors had seen as a calling from God to be heeded until ...
Winner, Chinese American Library Association Best Book Award winner (Fiction)
The history of Chinese immigration to Canada and the US over the past 100-plus years has been fraught with sadness and indignity; ...
The 'stache is back! After decades of being much maligned in Western culture, the mustache is enjoying a cultural renaissance, thanks to the annual phenomenon of Movember (the international campaign in ...
In recent years the world has borne witness to numerous confrontations, many of them violent, between
protesters and authorities at pivotal gatherings of the world's political and economic leaders. While ...
Stan Douglas: Abbott & Cordova, 7 August 1971, an art book on the politics of urban conflict, is based on the work of Stan Douglas, one of Canada's most revered contemporary artists. His film and video ...
First published in 1992, The Imaginary Indian is a revealing history of the "Indian" image mythologized by popular Canadian culture since 1850, propagating stereotypes that exist to this day.
Images of ...
As seen in People and The New Yorker
Over the last 100 years, the image of the physically strong, confident, muscular woman has
been the object of derision, fascination, and
erotic fantasy; she is often ...
Excerpted in Geist magazine
At the end of World War I, Canada was poised on the brink of social revolution. At least that is what many Canadians, inspired by the success of the Russian Revolution in 1917, ...