About Our Contributors Afeed Areifiz is a second year English major who moved to Vancouver close to two years ago, from Bangladesh, to attend UBC. Deanna Chan is in her final semester at UBC, working towards a double major in French and Honours English Literature. She loves writer’s block, condescending comments about her degree, and
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“Olivetti Lettera 22” Multimedia by Mormei Zanke
Olivetti Lettera 22 Multimedia by Mormei Zanke
“Do you want to watch a documentary?” Poem by Katie Selbee
Illustration by Simone Williamson Do you want to watch a documentary? Poem by Katie Selbee Our days slip in to each other’s. Smooth like you, they lean forward, hesitate a moment and fold in to themselves like wet paper coffee filters and closing newspapers; we can’t tell whose day is whose anymore and I am here
“Fealty and Fear: Notions of Kingship in The Lord of the Rings” Academic Essay by Deanna Chan
Fealty and Fear: Notions of Kingship in The Lord of the Rings Academic Essay by Deanna Chan Anglo-Saxon culture pervades J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, and is especially visible in the social structure and practices that bind subjects to their ruler in Middle Earth. In particular, Tolkien seems to have borrowed the Anglo-Saxon
“Broke.” Prose by Bára Hladíková
Illustration by Anne Tastad Broke. Prose by Bára Hladíková Every one of our appliances broke the week we were trying to break up. It started with the toaster. I had just received my results for Celiac disease: positive. I decided to eat all the bread in our apartment and then never again. That meant the seven
“Untitled 1 & 2” Multimedia by Andrea Garza
Untitled 1 & 2 Multimedia by Andrea Garza (click to enlarge images)
“On the Way” Poem by Afeed Areifiz
On the Way Poetry by Afeed Areifiz You know what I grew up on? Fish, rice, curry, and the stories of a generation that had to beg for them I grew up on badly-paved streets, faulty drainage and whispers of electricity, and the lives of the people who had fallen in love with them I
“Bang! Ka-Pow!” Fiction by Christina Hu
Bang! Ka-Pow! Fiction by Christina Hu Mom’s too old to be inquisitive but the kid is zooming around like this empty street is the best thing he’s ever seen. He has his favourite towel tied, Superman style, around his neck. Mom calls for him to slow down but he’s too busy running forward with his fist
“Angle of repose” Poem by Michael Pendreigh
Illustration by Mormei Zanke Angle of repose Poem by Michael Pendreigh Foreshocks ignored: reliving her soft temples against my thumbs kiss her forehead. Now she is a foot away a canyon between us, paralyzed on the fringe in a frozen state seized by the seventh Hades. A gust of wind beckons her body to mine: let
“Stomaching the Consequences of Posthumanism: Capitalism and Interdependent Consumption in M.T. Anderson’s Feed” Academic Essay by Julia Tikhonova
Stomaching the Consequences of Posthumanism: Capitalism and Interdependent Consumption in M.T. Anderson’s Feed Academic Essay by Julia Tikhonova M.T. Anderson’s Feed portrays a dystopian world in which the seemingly fixed epistemological framework of what it means to be human is provokingly destabilized. Renegotiating the boundary between humans and machines, citizens in Feed live with neural