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What does it mean to love a band? A friend? A nation?

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I always longed to be the falling woman—impelled by unruly passion, driven by beauty and desire, turned into stone, drowned in flowers.

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Known to be Strange

Known and Strange Things (Random House) is a collection of Teju Cole’s essays and other short pieces, many of which have previously appeared in The New Yorker and elsewhere online.

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To Be Read by My Children in the Event of My Demise

In Katie Daubs' short fiction, a father writes a deathbed letter to his children, explaining the surprising way he really met their mother.

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Poetry

Failed Seances for Rita MacNeil

"Rita, we are both members / of the fat neo-Scottish diaspora. / Don’t tell me it doesn’t exist, sweet darlin’"

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The Broch

"Every month or so, my mom sends me a picture from a trip we took together."

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Michael Hayward

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Geist co-founder Stephen Osborne's new book "The Coincidence Problem"

Geist co-founder Stephen Osborne has a new book coming out in October from Arsenal Pulp Press. Come to the book launch on October 10th at People's Co-op Books.

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VIFF 2024: Conclave

Based on the 2016 Robert Harris novel, Conclave is billed as a psychological thriller, which takes us behind the scenes into the Vatican in Rome, as Cardinals from around the world wheel and deal in their attempts to select the next pope from amongst their scarlet-clad ranks. Skulduggery and political deal-making abound.

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VIFF 2024: Blink

Blink is a documentary film from National Geographic, which follows a Montreal family with four children, three of whom have retinitis pigmentosa, a genetic condition causing gradual loss of vision and probable blindness. They decide to set out on a trip around the world, in order to fill their children’s visual memories, so that they can at least recall the world and its wonders.

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SpotLit 2024: a mini lit mag fest

An event by VPL X Geist X Room X subTerrain. Join us on October 5!

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VIFF 2024: Hakki

Hakki is a fable-like film from Turkey, which shows the protagonist’s transformation from a loving family man with a modest but happy life, to someone completely consumed with an obsessive dream.

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VIFF 2024: Shambhala

Shambhala is a slow-paced and thoughtful film set in the remote Upper Dolpo region of Nepal, among the Tibetan Buddhist culture. When village gossip suggests that Pema, recently pregnant, has been unfaithful, she sets out across a desolate landscape in an attempt to find her husband, a trader, and thereby clear her name.

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VIFF 2024: Souleymane's Story

Souleymane’s Story is a social-realist film in the tradition of Mike Leigh or Ken Loach, offering a more personal glimpse behind the headlines into the life of an asylum seeker in France.