PreviewsIssue 86, Spring/Summer 2025
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111 Places in Winnipeg That You Must Not Miss
Donna Janke
Going beyond the usual landmarks and tourist areas of Winnipeg and the surrounding area, this guide provides the story behind, directions to, hours of operation for, and one more place related to such locations as the Cleocatra Café, Cooks Creek Grotto, North Forge FabLab, the REDress Project, and Times Change(d) High & Lonesome Club.
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A Dark Death
Alice Fitzpatrick
Kate Galway’s plans for a quiet summer working on her writing on Meredith Island are ruined when a group of archeology students discovers a body ritualistically laid out in their trench. When both the island mechanic and her friend’s son are considered prime suspects, Kate and her artist friend Siobhan Fitzgerald feel they have to get involved in the investigation.
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A Little Camper Love
Rayna Meakin
This whimsical love letter to vintage 1968 to 1988 fibreglass campers – brands like Boler, Scamp, Surfside, and Trillium – portrays various kinds of birds naming and complimenting the different models of campers, spreading affirmations and positivity on every page.
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A Song to Drown the World
Rowena Spring
This queer, coming-of-age fantasy explores belonging, redemption, and the power of love in the story of Marguerite, a seawitch stranded in a vast, unforgiving desert. To survive the ancient secrets of the desert, she’ll need more than her magic power.
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A Time of Legends
The Story of Two Fearless Wolves—and One Rebel
Rick McIntyre, David A. Poulsen
Wolf 21 has become one of Yellowstone’s most famous wolves – leader of the Druid pack, he’s brave, kind, and committed to his mate, Wolf 42, who is equally impressive. But Wolf 302 is cut from a different cloth – he avoids fights, naps during conflicts, and begs for food instead of hunting. Will he grow out of his immature ways in time to become an alpha like the greats who came before him?
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Against the People
How Ford Nation Is Dismantling Ontario
Bryan Evans (Editor), Carlo Fanelli (Editor)
Written by on-the-ground experts and focused on the Progressive Conservatives since coming to power in Ontario in 2018, this book provides an in-depth look into the devastating policies of the Ford government across a wide range of public policy issues – from health care, municipal, education, and judicial restructuring, to economics, arts, labour, environment, housing, and Indigenous lands.
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Alice Munro and the Art of Time
Laura K. Davis
By conducting close textual analyses of a selection of Munro’s stories and collections, Davis explores how Munro challenged and reconfigured traditional assumptions about time, considering the relationship between the past and the present, material experiences of being, story structure, memory, and memoir.
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ALL WRONG HORSES ON FIRE THAT GO AWAY IN THE RAIN
Sarain Frank Soonias
Written while attending therapy through a TRC initiative for children and grandchildren of residential schools and Sixties Scoop Survivors, the poems in this debut collection attempt to reconcile with the ghosts of the dead and find some joy in life, and include song lyrics, fragments, shape poems, love poems, and advice to self.
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Banana Capital
Stories, Science, and Poison at the Equator
Ben Brisbois
This book reveals the often grim realities of daily life for banana farmers and workers in Ecuador – alarming rates of negative health effects associated with widespread pesticide use along with precarious and unsafe working conditions – and seeks to understand and address these challenges by looking at the history of banana production and issuing an urgent call to action.
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Bebías Into ?hndaa Ke
Queer Indigenous Knowledge for Land and Community
Kleo P. Skavinski, Sydney Rae Krill
This powerful collection of essays, stories, and conversations – by young activists, artists, families, and both emerging and established scholars – offers a wealth of queer Indigenous theory, experience, and practices with an emphasis on the critical role of land.
