May 3
features
The Ubyssey is hiring podcast hosts
The Ubyssey is planning to launch several podcasts during the 2025/26 academic year, so we're looking for hosts interested in writing and recording their own shows.
creative writing
March 27
culture
Anosh Irani's Behind the Moon honours the characters that haunt him
In a Mughlai restaurant in Toronto, three lives intertwine. As Ayub, one of its employees, is cleaning up, a mysterious cab driver walks in and shatters his peace, leaving Ayub to confront reality, the family he’s left behind and the dreams long abandoned.
January 17
culture
Finding friendship abroad: When you know, you know
A fire pit burns between two friends on the Great Dane patio. They both lean forward with their hands cupped above the flames, hot drinks just a short reach away.
September 4
features
Calefaction: Questions designed to suffocate students
“Tell me about yourself,” they say.
July 19
features
Birdsongs: City life
On the sidewalk are / heat and gum-turned-tar / and enough pigeons to slow you down.
July 19
features
Birdsongs: Meri Chiriya (My Sparrows)
Calling girls chiriya in Punjabi and many other South Asian languages is representative of the belief that we raise our girls with care, love and admiration, but ultimately their fate is decided for them.
July 2
culture
'Excavate the past': Danny Ramadan's Crooked Teeth uncovers truths of a Queer, refugee experience
If it were not for the deeply colonial legacies embedded in the practice of archaeology, it might be tempting at first pass to say that Ahmad Danny Ramadan’s newest publication is a fundamentally archeological endeavour.
June 18, 2024
features
Birdsongs: Enchanted by the heron, a decade apart
The first and last book I ever stole from a library was titled something like, Birds: Everything You Need to Know.
June 18, 2024
features
Birdsongs: The meaning of peacocks
When my mind can make out the peacock’s feathers vividly enough, the eyes almost wink, as if to acknowledge the grip that they have on the woes of maternal love.
March 20, 2024
culture
Yeji Y. Ham asks what you remember in The Invisible Hotel
UBC BA creative writing alum Yeji Y. Ham’s debut novel The Invisible Hotel imagines a small village in rural South Korea where the urge toward morbid preservation is enshrined in local custom.
November 22, 2023
culture
Kitchen morphemes
What is my native language? I say my sister, there is no other word for it.
April 29, 2022
science
'The future is open-minded': 2022 Ubyssey sci fi contest winner
It’s time to take things just a small step further, and move towards universal understanding as a society. For just a small sacrifice, we’re gaining connection, security and a whole new way of life.
April 23, 2022
culture
Spring day
Weddings and divorces. Birthdays and funerals. They happen in close proximity.
