Author: Daniel Gawthrop

Book review by Daniel Gawthrop posted on British Columbia Review on May 20, 2025 Iron Mike: My Life Behind the Bench by Mike Keenan, with Scott Morrison Toronto: Random House Canada, 2024 $36.00 / 9780735281851 With his replacement of Rick Tocchet as head coach of the Vancouver Canucks, Adam Foote becomes the twenty-second bench boss in the club’s fifty-five year history—the seventh since 2013. Canucks Nation is holding its collective breath wondering how effective he…

Book review by Daniel Gawthrop posted on British Columbia Review on April 23, 2025 The Tiger and the Cosmonaut by Eddy Boudel Tan Toronto: Viking Canada, 2025 $26.95 / 9780735248557 Eddy Boudel Tan entered the Can Lit world with a sensational first novel. Inspired by the horrific 2015 plane crash by pilot suicide of Germanwings Flight 9525, After Elias used hindsight to explore a gay couple’s relationship before a similar tragedy ended it. When a…

Book review by Daniel Gawthrop posted on British Columbia Review on December 18, 2024 Anders als die Andern (Different from the Others) by Ervin Malakaj Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2023 $19.95 / 9780228018681 Queer Film Classics is a series of books examining queer films that have gained iconic status over generations, drawing widespread interest across pop culture and academia. Published by McGill-Queen’s University Press and edited by Matthew Hays and Thomas Waugh, previous titles include…

Book review by Daniel Gawthrop posted on British Columbia Review on December 18, 2024 Climate Hope: Stories of Action in an Age of Global Crisis by David Geselbracht Madeira Park: Douglas & McIntyre, 2024 $24.95 / 9781771624268 Books about climate change can be pretty depressing. I recall suffering weeks of existential angst after reading David Wallace-Wells’s The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming (2019). That book described, in gruesome detail, the harsh reality in store for…

Book review by Daniel Gawthrop posted on British Columbia Review on December 3, 2024 You Don’t Have to Quit: 20 Science-Backed Strategies to Help Your Loved One Drink Less by Maureen Palmer (with Michael Pond) Vancouver: Page Two, 2024 $21.95 / 9781774584668 As far as alcohol use disorder (AUD) is concerned, Maureen Palmer and Michael Pond are something of a power couple in the B.C. recovery movement. Through their own example as life partners—Palmer has publicly…