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Kellen Hatanaka

Kellen Hatanaka published his second children’s book, Drive: A Look at Roadside Opposites, in 2015.
Illustration by Kellen Hatanaka
April 2019 / Fiction

Childhood

March 26, 2019March 27, 2020 - by Kellen Hatanaka

Mark didn’t know what to make of his son—he didn’t seem like an “ordinary” kid

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Illustration by Kellen Hatanaka
March 2017 / Sports

Philosopher Up to Bat

February 21, 2017April 2, 2020 - by Kellen Hatanaka

Baseball is the sport that brings jocks and nerds together

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Illustration by Kellen Hatanaka
Environment / March 2015

Sucked Dry

February 23, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Kellen Hatanaka

A First Nations suffers so Winnipeg can have water

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Illustration by Kellen Hatanaka
March 2015 / Technology

Rise of the RoboNurse

February 19, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Kellen Hatanaka

A UBC professor is engineering a new type of caregiver

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Illustration by Kellen Hatanaka
March 2015 / Television

With a Paddle

February 17, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Kellen Hatanaka

On the set of Schitt’s Creek

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Contributors illustration by Kellen Hatanaka
March 2015 / Poetry

Il pleure dans mon cœur

February 16, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Kellen Hatanaka

Il pleure dans mon cœur comme il pleut sur la ville The lovely, easy lines (they are both of those things). Walking abroad in his twentieth year was when he …

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Miscellany illustration by Kellen Hatanaka
March 2015 / World

Brand ISIS

February 16, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Kellen Hatanaka

The sophisticated marketing machine of the Islamic State

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Contributors illustration by Kellen Hatanaka
March 2015 / Poetry

The Beginner’s Guide to Model Making

February 16, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Kellen Hatanaka

My father built ships in bottles, histories in aquariums, filled the second-storey guest room with Waterloo reconceived in Plasticine. Each miniature world was malleable, rippled by his fingers’ ridges, dimpled …

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Illustration by Kellen Hatanaka
March 2015 / Society

A New Leaf

February 13, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Kellen Hatanaka

A. Y. Jackson proposes a national flag

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Illustration by Kellen Hatanaka
March 2015 / Media

Editor’s Note

February 12, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Kellen Hatanaka

I signed on for six months but stayed six years because I believed in the project and enjoyed the work. As I take my leave, I want to introduce Jonathan …

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