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A collage of book covers for - (1) How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell (2) How We Fight For Our Lives by Saeed Jones (3) Stolen Voices by Zlata Filipović and Melanie Challenger (4) Upstream: Selected Essays by Mary Oliver

Six non-fiction books that ask you to feel deeply

Peak Web - June 3, 2025

This is a cover of Natalie Lim’s book, Elegy for Opportunity

Personal reflections on the launch of Elegy for Opportunity

SFU’s artistic history comes to life in A Magical Time

Three books spread out on a flat surface in this order from left to right: Caste by Isabel Wilkerson, The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois, and Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin

The Book Nook: 100 years of literature on Black liberation

A book lying on a wooden table with an illustrated cover. The top half depicts colourful visuals of people dancing and playing music, while the bottom half shows police and guards trapping people with shields.

Postcards from Congo is an artful graphic history

An East-Asian woman shown twice in two different costumes: to the left is a golden set of battle armour and a royal headdress, while the right is a burgundy dress with silver web-like designs near the torso. In the background are golden dragon-like scales.

Book Nook: Xiran Jay Zhao’s Iron Widow series

Peak Web - January 30, 2025 0

The cover of The Lyre’s 15th volume, which features the exterior of a house surrounded by shrubbery, is visible on a laptop screen situated near a window.

SFU’s The Lyre makes ripples across campus

Peak Web - January 9, 2025 0

A brown book with a scrapbook-looking design (words written all over, patches of red, black, blue, and white). 'The message' is written in white.

The Book Nook: Investigating narratives about oppression in The Message

Peak Web - November 6, 2024 0

The cover of Bolaño’s 2666 (written on the cover in red), which features a renaissance-styled painting of a woman surrounded by faded hands and faces.

In case you missed it: 2666 is a telling tale of...

Peak Web - September 26, 2024 0

A collage of each book cover. From left to right: it was never going to be okay has an orange cover decorated with pink and dark-green outlines of flowers. Coexistence has two arms joined together against a white-ish blue background. This Arab is Queer has the title centered and surrounded in a floral-like pattern with the colours of the rainbow. Our Work Is Everywhere shows two drawn individuals yelling into megaphones that emit smog.

The Book Nook: A collection of queer literature to buy at...

Peak Web - August 2, 2024 0

Colourful paintings on easels displayed along a busy street in downtown Vancouver.

Need to Know, Need to Go: Vancouver-based arts events

Peak Web - July 16, 2024 0

The cover of the book featuring an individual with short green hair. Bony fingers feel around their body and face as they peer through a panel of wood with a hole ripped in it.

HalfSoul chronicles the struggles of mental health, identity, and morality

Peak Web - June 27, 2024 0

Crooked Teeth is a queer Syrian refugee’s reconnection “home”

Peak Web - June 10, 2024 0

We Follow the River plunges into language, loss, and love

Peak Web - June 5, 2024 0

A pile of the books mentioned in this article.

Top five time management tips from expert authors

Peak Web - March 26, 2024 0

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