PreviewsIssue 88, Spring/Summer 2026
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Beneficiary
JoAnn McCaig
Moving back and forth in time, Seren, now wealthy, looks back on the past 50 years of her life and the choices she made, starting with resisting the notion of mindlessly going out with her high school boyfriend, and on through living in communal houses on Vancouver Island through marriage, motherhood, and divorce – all the while living her life on her own terms.
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Beyond the Dark Forest
I. D. Russell
Every year, people seek the wilderness experience at Rock Peak Lake, deep in the Whiteshell area. But this year, no one – not a retired police officer, not a rock star, not an influencer, or even an experienced outdoorsman – is safe from what lurks in the forest.
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Black Passport
A Migrant’s Memoir
Paul Akpomuje
An archive of radical remembering and a vivid portrayal of hope, dreams, and resilience, this debut collection explores the complexities of identity and home, and brings into view the everyday textures of space, movement, and memory as experienced by Black African migrants navigating immigration offices, airports, cities, and classrooms.
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Blue thinks itself within me
Lyric poetry, ecology, and lichenous form
Kim Trainor
Inspired by her reading of poets, theorists, and ecologists, and her activist experience at the Ada’itsx / Fairy Creek blockade to prevent logging of Vancouver Island old growth forests, this book traces Trainor’s thinking as a poet, her contemplation of what lyric poetry can do to attune readers to more-than-human life such as the specklebelly lichen, as she works on a book-length eco-poem about Fairy Creek.
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Buffalo Lessons
How Bison Returned to Banff National Park
Karsten Heuer
Packed with photos and weaving in Indigenous perspectives, Heuer’s last book is an inside account of the reintroduction of plains bison to Banff National Park in 2017. Thrilling moments include a helicopter-assisted translocation, a horseback chase to tranquillize a bison, and the tracking of wayward bulls that scale steep treacherous terrain.
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Canada and NATO
The Myth of a Global Peacekeeper
Owen Schalk
In this book, Schalk disrupts the popular Western perception of NATO as a defensive, collective security organization, and argues that Canadians should oppose it and support their government’s withdrawal from it for the following reasons: NATO has always been an offensive alliance; the wars it wages are not just; its existence and expansion stir global tensions and raise the risk of global war; it undermines Canadian sovereignty; and it diverts resources that can serve the social needs of Canadians into a largely U.S.-owned arms industry.
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Cheapskate in Lotusland
The Philosophy and Practice of Living Well on a Small Budget
Steve Burgess
Blending memoir and journalism, Burgess tells of his frugal life in Vancouver, demonstrating how he is able to live in an expensive city on a freelance writer’s income. He brings in experts, literature, and everyday people to expand on his philosophy and the strategies that give him the perspective and values that allow for his comfortable life.
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Navigating Civilization’s Predicaments With Wisdom and Courage
Juan Pablo Quiñonez
In a world of social, ecological, and economic upheaval, this book examines why systems are faltering, how they are interconnected, and how a new way of understanding ancestral perspectives, spirituality, systems thinking, science, and deep ecology is needed to navigate the storms and respond wisely.
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Confronting the Resurgent Right
Miriam Edelson (Editor)
This volume combines academic analysis with advocacy strategies in a thorough look at how the radical/alt/far right has gained power in recent years – as demonstrated by Canada’s 2022 “Freedom Convoy” – and how to resist the division and conspiracy theories by finding ways to work together.
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First Nations Agriculture in Manitoba, 1871–1971
Sarah Carter
Drawing upon oral histories, speeches, petitions, and writings of Indigenous Peoples in Manitoba, and Department of Indian Affairs records, Carter shows the deep roots of First Nations agricultural knowledge, their efforts to farm after the signing of Treaty 1, and the federal and provincial government policies and practices that thwarted them.
