Buddy
It was after midnight, I was tired, and all I wanted was to heat up the bowl of leftover perogies I had waiting patiently for me in the fridge. Instead I stood at the door to my apartment as my...
View ArticleCampus Culture & Political (In)Correctness
Laura Kipnis is a cultural critic and former video artist whose work focuses on sexual politics, aesthetics, emotion, acting out, bad behavior, and various other crevices of the American psyche. Along...
View ArticleOne on One
The last time I saw Trisha we were supposed to get together for some noose-play. The format was usually the same. I’d go over to her place. She’d drag out in her slutty leather dress, black stilettos...
View ArticleGlobal Imaginings
David Beers grew up in San Jose, California where his father was a satellite test engineer, and moved to Vancouver in 1991. His book Blue Sky Dream (1996) documents the utopian hopes and subsequent...
View Article30th Anniversary Launch Party!
Tuesday, October 9th • 7:00 – 10:00 p.m. WHERE? Strange Fellows Brewing 1345 Clark Drive, Vancouver, BC Join the editors and friends of subTerrain as they celebrate 30 years of Grit-lit publishing!...
View ArticleSummer of the Horse
by Donna Kane Lost Moose Books (an imprint of Harbour Publishing), 2018; 224 pages; $19.95 Although Donna Kane’s book calls itself a memoir, it’s a whole lot more than the usual look back on a life....
View ArticleBuddy
It was after midnight, I was tired, and all I wanted was to heat up the bowl of leftover perogies I had waiting patiently for me in the fridge. Instead I stood at the door to my apartment as my...
View ArticleRefuse: CanLit in Ruins
Edited by Hannah McGregor, Julie Rak, and Erin Wunker Book*hug, 2018 218 pages $25.00 I’m conflicted about Refuse. I can’t decide whether sporadic admiration for the punchy, manifesto style of the...
View ArticlePractical Anxiety
by Heidi Greco Inanna Publications, 2018 104 pages $18.95 Practical Anxiety is a book of wonders and dreams, questions and calls to action, meditation, eulogy and prayer, sometimes with all of these...
View ArticlePaid Intern Position Available!
Digital Magazine Internship at subTerrain July 2021-December 2021 Remuneration: $16/hour, approximately 20 hours per week Job Description subTerrain Magazine is looking to hire a Digital Intern to...
View ArticleScreen Captures: Film in the Age of Emergency
By Steven Lee Naish New Star Books, 2021 208 pages $20 It’s unusual for me to read the blurbs or press release that accompanies a book I plan to review. But with this book, it was nigh impossible to...
View ArticleRemembering This Binge of Ours: Reading Proust, Watching The Sopranos
The past two years of the pandemic left some of us with a lot of downtime. With commutes curtailed, fewer opportunities for socializing or travel, and even, at odd times, absolute lockdown, now was the...
View ArticleCurtains
They were screening Opening Night, the John Cassavetes, at the Royal. It was Cassavetes’ birthday. Also my birthday. After the movie we were ushered out into the bitter December night and none of us...
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