Book Review

October 29

Hired Gun: Uncovering Buried Secrets misses the mark with mystery

cultureNatalie Vakulin with photos by Saumya Kamra

UBC Clinical Professor Emeritus in Psychiatry Bill Koch puts the mystery novel’s conception of justice under a microscope in Hired Gun: Uncovering Buried Secrets. Read More.

The cover of Hired Gun being pulled from a bookcase.

Two people sit on an island floating in the sky in this pixel art illustration.

October 11

Kawika Guillermo plays video games for self-knowledge in Of Floating Isles

cultureMorgan Stouck with illustrations by Seneesha Ekanayake

An illustration of Larry Grant standing in a hop field

October 2

Musqueam elder Larry Grant finds belonging in new memoir, Reconciling

cultureElena Massing with illustrations by Ayla Cilliers

March 20

Honest and moving, Léa Taranto’s debut YA novel A Drop in the Ocean is a story of adolescent mental illness

cultureNatalie Vakulin

A red book cover with an illustration of a shocked blond woman with her hands on the sides of her face. There are large block letters reading "She's a Lamb."

March 17

She’s a Lamb! details the unapologetic lengths one performer will go to claim the stage

cultureSophia Bertuzzi Samilski

A purple and pink image of a ski lift with the title "A Way to Be Happy" written across the middle in teal.

September 28, 2024

A Way to Be Happy is a disappointing book with a silver lining

cultureNathan Harris

June 4, 2024

How It Works Out finds meaning in the multiverse

cultureElena Massing

March 26, 2024

What has gone missing?: Zehra Naqvi finds her voice in The Knot of My Tongue

cultureAisha Chaudhry

August 24, 2023

Y-Dang Troeung’s memoir Landbridge reflects on refugee existence and familial love

cultureElena Massing

April 11, 2023

Queer YA novel In the Defense of Liberty breathes life into Trans histories

cultureThomas McLeod

November 18, 2022

Horror anthology Queer Little Nightmares celebrates the ghosts in our closets

cultureMakyla Smith