The Vancouver Arts Book Fair returns to the city once more

By: Ashima Shukla, Staff Writer From July 4–6, 2025, the Vancouver Arts Book Fair (VABF) returns to the Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre,...

Six non-fiction books that ask you to feel deeply

By: 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...

Personal reflections on the launch of Elegy for Opportunity

By: Alex Traynor, SFU Student On May 10, I ventured down to SFU Harbour Center in Vancouver for the first time to attend the official...

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

By: 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...

The Book Nook: 100 years of literature on Black liberation

By: Yildiz Subuk, Staff Writer Content warning: this piece centres around racial segregation and systemic oppression.  Over the past century, Black writers have produced some of...

Postcards from Congo is an artful graphic history

By: Petra Chase, Editor-in-Chief Content warning: brief mentions of slavery, child soldiers, and war. The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is the second largest country in...

Book Nook: Xiran Jay Zhao’s Iron Widow series

By: Phone Min Thant, Staff Writer Content warning: brief mentions of murder and war.  Those familiar with Chinese history are probably no stranger to Empress Wu...

SFU’s The Lyre makes ripples across campus

By: Hailey Miller, Staff Writer The Lyre is SFU’s literary magazine produced through the university’s world languages and literatures program, publishing works from undergraduate students,...

The Book Nook: Investigating narratives about oppression in The Message

By: Yildiz Subuk, Staff Writer Content warning: mentions of slavery and genocide.  “Even plunderers are human beings whose violent ambitions must contend with the guilt that...

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

By: Yildiz Subuk, Staff Writer Content warning: descriptions of femicide.  Roberto Bolaño was a novelist, essayist, and poet who later proclaimed he should have been a...