Books
Book Nook: A selection of political books from Southeast Asia
November 10, 2025By: Phone Min Thant, Arts & Culture Editor From the protests against corruption happening in the Philippines and Indonesia, to armed struggles for democracy in Myanmar, Southeast Asians are exposed daily to the importance of political expression. In a region where authoritarian forces limit such expressions both physically and online, one way these political expressions have been made visible to the outside world is through books. Although there is a…
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Book Nook: Reimagining ChinaTOwn
November 8, 2025By: Phone Min Thant, Arts and Culture Editor The year is 2050. Do Brussels sprouts go into a Chinese hotpot? Stephanie certainly has her doubts as she shares a large bowl of hotpot with several businessmen intent on “culturally redeveloping”…
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Four book recommendations for Disability Pride Month
July 24, 2025By: Phone Min Thant, Arts and Culture Editor knot body by Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch knot body is a collection of poems, short stories, and letters that address various themes, along with how people with disabilities are treated unjustly by…
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Book Nook: Quiet books for loud times
July 10, 2025By: Ashima Shukla, Staff Writer Revery: A Year of Bees by Jenna Butler This book feels like a long exhale. Set on an off-grid farm in Alberta, it follows Butler’s journey as a beekeeper. In the gentle rhythm of tending…
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On reading Dostoevsky
July 3, 2025By: Yildiz Subuk, Staff Writer I have read a significant amount of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s work and found myself both exhausted and enlightened. His book Notes from Underground (1864) is hailed as the first existentialist novel, exploring the depths of an…
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Book Nook: Young adult queer book recommendations
July 1, 2025By: Rusham Verma, Peak Associate One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston If you’re a sci-fi fanatic and a hopeless romantic, this book was written just for you. It’s about a lonely and walled-off 23-year-old girl, August Landry, who moves to…
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The Vancouver Arts Book Fair returns to the city once more
June 25, 2025By: Ashima Shukla, Staff Writer From July 4–6, 2025, the Vancouver Arts Book Fair (VABF) returns to the Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre, bringing you not just knowledge transfer, but also many visions of what a publication can be.…
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Six non-fiction books that ask you to feel deeply
June 3, 2025By: Ashima Shukla, Staff Writer and Michelle Young, Co-Editor-in-Chief I love books that breathe — that smile gently at me and invite me into their orbit; that ask, “Will you join me? Will you look at what you’ve been avoiding?”…
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Personal reflections on the launch of Elegy for Opportunity
May 30, 2025By: Alex Traynor, SFU Student On May 10, I ventured down to SFU Harbour Center in Vancouver for the first time to attend the official book launch for Elegy for Opportunity, written by the award-winning poet and SFU English alum…
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SFU’s artistic history comes to life in A Magical Time
May 22, 2025By: Kyla Wane, SFU Student One step onto SFU’s Burnaby campus, and the word “prison” comes to mind. However, the campus’ grey walls and bleak buildings hold a rich cultural history. A Magical Time: The Early Days of the Arts…
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