FEATURES
Winners of the Occasional Geist Short Long-Distance Writing Contest
Kristen den Hartog, “The Insulin Soldiers”
K’ari Fisher, “Don’t Worry, Leonardo Has a Plan”
NOTES & DISPATCHES
Sara Cassidy, “Flying the Coop”
James Pollock, “Flashlight”
Robyn Ludwig, “Black Velvet, If You Please”
Henry Doyle, “Sunday Morning Sidewalk”
Terence Byrnes, “Ash”
Stephen Smith, “The Acknowledgements”
FINDINGS
“Saskatchewan Photos” by George Webber
“Ethical Remembering” by Lisa Bird-Wilson
“Family Justice” by Vicki Laveau-Harvie
“‘Vancouver Chinatown’ May 31, 2020” by Leanne Dunic
“Lady Wrestler Downed at 43” by Julia Morrison
“Bravado” by Tanya Tagaq
“Snow Day” by Calvin Wharton
“Takeaway” by Chang Kuo-Li
“A Single Sentence” by Ahmet Altan
“Old Seeds” by M.A.C. Farrant
“Field Research” by Sachiko Murakami
New subject headings at the Vancouver Public Library: Sea bunny, rural gay men and more
Christie de purée de crisse and other French-Canadian curses
Buttons from The ArQuives, the largest independent LGBTQ2+ archive in the world
COLUMNS
Stephen Henighan, “Reheated Races”
Cheryl Thompson, “Dismantling the Myth of the Hero”
ENDNOTES: Featuring reviews of:
Becoming Vancouver: A History by Daniel Francis, reviewed by Stephen Osborne
The Old Man in the Mirror Isn’t Me by Ray Robertson, reviewed by Jill Mandrake
Crying in H Mart: A Memoir by Michelle Zauner, reviewed by Jonathan Heggen
The Overstory by Richard Powers, reviewed by Michael Hayward
Qallunaat! Why White People Are Funny, directed by Zebedee Nungak and Mark Sandiford, reviewed by Patty Osborne
Captains of the Sands by Jorge Amado, reviewed by Anson Ching
Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell, reviewed by Michael Hayward
Clyde Fans by Seth, reviewed by Michael Hayward
On poutine in Tokyo, reviewed by Sylvia Tran
Lost Feast: Culinary Extinction and the Future of Food by Lenore Newman, reviewed by Kelsea O’Connor
Love Live the Post Horn! by Vigdis Hjorth, reviewed by Shyla Seller
Fernweh by Teju Cole, reviewed by Michael Hayward
Plus:
The GEIST CRYPTIC CROSSWORD!