The Vancouver Arts Book Fair returns to the city once more

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...

Six non-fiction books that ask you to feel deeply

I love books that breathe — that smile gently at me and invite me into their orbit; that ask, “Will you join me? Will...

Personal reflections on the launch of Elegy for Opportunity

On May 10, I ventured down to SFU Harbour Center in Vancouver for the first time to attend the official book launch for Elegy...

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

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...

The Book Nook: 100 years of literature on Black liberation

Content warning: this piece centres around racial segregation and systemic oppression.  Over the past century, Black writers have produced some of the most impactful works...

Postcards from Congo is an artful graphic history

Content warning: brief mentions of slavery, child soldiers, and war. The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is the second largest country in Africa, yet its...

Book Nook: Xiran Jay Zhao’s Iron Widow series

Content warning: brief mentions of murder and war.  Those familiar with Chinese history are probably no stranger to Empress Wu Zetian, the only legitimate empress...

SFU’s The Lyre makes ripples across campus

The Lyre is SFU’s literary magazine produced through the university’s world languages and literatures program, publishing works from undergraduate students, artists, and SFU graduates,...

The Book Nook: Investigating narratives about oppression in The Message

Content warning: mentions of slavery and genocide.  “Even plunderers are human beings whose violent ambitions must contend with the guilt that gnaws at them when...

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

Content warning: descriptions of femicide.  Roberto Bolaño was a novelist, essayist, and poet who later proclaimed he should have been a detective instead. He was...