A Tehran So Quiet is more than diaspora fiction

By: Maya Barillas Mohan, Staff Writer SFU alum Mehdi M. Kashani has a computer science degree. He also has an indelible interest in narrative fiction....

Book Nook: A perfect read for flu season

By: Madeleine Donegan, SFU Student Where those of us here on Planet Earth are chemically composed of, as scientist Carl Sagan once put it, “starstuff,”...

Book Nook: The superb speculative fiction of China Miéville

By: Ariele Purves, SFU Student An ocean of soil, inhabited by mammoth creatures. A vanished squid in formaldehyde. A man in a bottle. Aliens driven...

Exploring queerness across Southeast Asia

By: Phone Min Thant, Arts & Culture Editor “Queer Asia does not have a great history; it has never found an institutional home in the...

Book Nook: Independent West Africa: tradition, modernization, and identity in a post-colonial Africa

By: Jonah Lazar, Staff Writer In West Africa in the 1960s, the literary scene in the newly independent nations stretching from Senegal to Nigeria was...

Political reads: The Last Honest Man by James Risen

By: Tomos Land, Staff Writer Pulitzer prize-winning journalist James Risen captures the consequential life of Senator Frank Church in his aptly-titled book: The Last Honest...

Get to know Greek mythology through Homer’s The Odyssey and its counterparts

By: Julia Nijjar, SFU Student There is nothing better than sitting by the seaside while indulging in literature that captures the essence of summer along...

Reconciling: A Lifelong Struggle to Belong book talk

By: Marie Jen Galilo, Staff Writer Content warning: Mention of residential schools. On Monday, April 27, Elder Larry Grant, also known as sʔəyəɬəq (suh-yuh-shl-uck) in xʷməθkʷəy̓əm...

Home, belonging, and marginalization at Dr. Umezurike’s book launch

By: Maya Barillas Mohan, Staff Writer Dr. Uchechukwu Umezurike, an English professor from the University of Calgary, came to SFU to share his new book....

Celebrating Freedom to Read Week with The Librarians

By: Heidi Kwok, Staff Writer Each year, libraries across Canada celebrate Freedom to Read Week, a national education campaign urging Canadians to combat the growing...