PreviewsIssue 87, Fall/Winter 2025/26
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Refugee Mouth
Sanita Fejzić
This debut collection weaves war-devastated landscapes with queer joy, portraying a child’s experience of the Balkan War and the Siege of Sarajevo, exploring the life of a refugee turned immigrant, resisting expectations put upon women, and finally, celebrating a life of love.
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Renewal
Indigenous Perspectives on Land-Based Education In and Beyond the Classroom
Katya Adamov Ferguson (Editor), Christine M’Lot (Editor)
This second book in the Footbridge series of Indigenous-centred education resources supports educators in bringing Indigenous voices and the philosophy, principles, and practices of Indigenous land-based education into their teaching through critical engagement with diverse written and visual works by Indigenous leaders, land defenders, scholars, and Knowledge Keepers. The book includes ways to facilitate discussions, advice for activities, and prompts for reflection.
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ReVisions
Speculating in Literature and Film in Canada
Wendy Roy
Bringing together critical and creative works by 18 different authors, this book examines speculative fiction, film, and television to show how speculative writing can help readers/viewers to re-envision Canadian politics, cultures, and societies and ask important questions about representations of our world.
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Revisiting Human Rights in Canadian History
Jennifer Tunnicliffe (Editor), Stephanie Bangarth (Editor)
Through insightful essays on such topics as incarceration and criminalization, women’s rights, labour movements, Indigenous sovereignty, grassroots activism, immigration, and foreign policy, this book challenges the national myths that frame Canada as a global human rights leader.
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Revolution Songs
Carissa Halton
Set in a 1930s Rocky Mountain mining town, this debut historical novel was inspired by the little-known story of a Communist union, the rise of the Canadian Ku Klux Klan, and the women who fought on both sides, women such as young Annie Jalmer, who becomes an unwilling double agent for opposing Communists and Fascist forces until a violent strike forces her to take a stand, and Emmeline Webb, the wife of the chief of the police.
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Rez Kid
Andrea Landry, Isabella Fassler (Illustrator)
The narrator of this charmingly illustrated story is hurt when the kids on the school bus call her a “rez kid.” She tells her mom, her nóhkum, her moshum, and her aunty, and they each give her an idea for sharing something from her reserve community with the other children. But she comes up with her own big and celebratory idea.
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Rock Star
My Life On and Off the Ice
Jennifer Jones
One of Canada’s greatest and most influential curlers opens up about the challenges of combining law school and a legal career and later motherhood with curling at the highest level, how she had to overcome her introverted nature to deal with being in the media spotlight, and how she paved the way for future women curlers to have equality in what was traditionally a male-dominated sport.
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Screaming at the Sky
Christian McPherson
Part graphic novel and part artistic madness, this book is an exciting visual experience, a psychedelic and satirical journey to the centre of a mind that is funny, honest, and electrifying.
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Seeing Things
George Amabile
Amabile’s 13th book of poetry is a poetic journey through clarity and distortion, presence and memory, grief and wonder. Whether contemplating the current political climate, examining mundane objects, or reflecting on past experiences, these poems probe to see what lies beneath the visible world and celebrate the practice of looking closer.
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Sem’s Map
Rebecca Thomas, Azby Whitecalf (Illustrator)
Young Sem is confused when his teacher Mr. Trainer shows the class a map that is the same shape as Turtle Island, but has lines and squares all over, and different names than he knows from his Kiju’s stories. So he asks Mr. Trainer if Kiju can come to class to share her stories of the land with all the students. The book includes colonial and decolonial maps of Turtle Island.
