Category: Stop! Look! Listen!

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The album cover for Recordings from the Åland Islands by Jeremiah Chiu and Marta Sofia Honer. The cover is rust read with a light blue image of a wildflower field.

Stop! Look! Listen! José Teodoro's Listening Recommendation

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Ripples in air, soft and immense. Bells curl round a hillside to be cradled in an ear. Small animals worry their paws. A dazzle of piano, a glittery sheet of salt water. A cart lopes along a country road. Ghosts play ping-pong. Cascades from outer space. Some strange vessel encircles us in a scalded wood.

The cover of The Collected Short Stories by Katherine Mansfield

Stop! Look! Listen! Julia Lin's Reading Recommendation

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Like most high school students in British Columbia, I had read Katherine Mansfield’s short story “Miss Brill” in English class. I found the story so compelling that I looked up The Collected Short Stories.

The album cover of I Got Heaven by Mannequin Pussy

Stop! Look! Listen! Micaela Carren's Listening Recommendation

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I feel seen when listening to the gift that is American punk/alt band Mannequin Pussy. Their entire discography is a progression of artistic and musical truth, with each release becoming more unflinchingly personal and exquisitely composed than the last—but their 2024 album I Got Heaven is my personal favorite.

The cover of Catching the Big Fish by David Lynch which is square and blue and features a line of bubbly water through it.

Stop! Look! Listen! Maryann Martin’s Reading Recommendation

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It’s a privilege to journey with David Lynch in Catching The Big Fish—Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity. He hooked me on his first line: “Ideas are like fish.” Intrigued, I agreed to dive deeper with him. Some of his observations are deeply personal, yet his writing makes room for the reader.

The cover of Wet Dream by Erin Robinsong

Stop! Look! Listen! Forrest Gander’s Reading Recommendation

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Sure enough, contemporary philosophies of posthumanism and ecophenomenology, challenging human-centered frameworks and exploring the embodied reciprocity between humans and the more-than-human world, circulate—if at all— in the back eddies of popular consciousness.

The cover of Linguaphile: A Language of Love by Julie Sedivy

Stop! Look! Listen! Michelle Spencer's Reading Recommendation

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There should be a word for books that show up in your life when you need them. Books which obliterate fears or seemingly by magic connect some of the disparate dots of a lifetime. Dots that you maybe didn’t even realize existed, let alone had an awareness that they could use an alignment, call for a needle and thread.

The cover of Ghazal Games by Roger Sedarat

Stop! Look! Listen! Vivek Sharma’s Reading Recommendation

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In Ghazal Games, Iranian-American poet Roger Sedarat approaches the ghazal, an ancient Arabic form with its roots in Persia and dominance in Urdu-speaking countries, not with the usual solemnity but as a site of playfulness and invention. Gone is the nostalgic melancholy of Agha Shahid Ali, or the usual moroseness of the Urdu masters, and we aren’t quite yet in the silted, sublime world of Canadian ghazal-poets like John Thompson or Phyllis Webb.
The cover of Issue 306 of The Fiddlehead featuring the photograph "Silent Night" by Kirsten Stackhouse which is of a person standing in a bus shelter at night in winter. The ad on the bus shelter behind the person casts a green glow on the snow around the shelter.
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