PreviewsIssue 87, Fall/Winter 2025/26
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Shelter in Text
Essays on Dwelling and Refuge
Myra Bloom (Editor), Kasia Van Schaik (Editor)
Through an engaging blend of academic essays and creative non-fiction pieces, contributors such as Billy-Ray Belcourt, ryan fitzpatrick, David Chariandy, and Robert Zacharias examine how writing can create, illuminate, and complicate ideas about dwelling, belonging, or finding safe harbour.
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South Asian Feminisms in Diaspora
Critical Perspectives from Canada
Amina Jamal (Editor), Jane Ku (Editor), Maryam Khan (Editor)
Contributors from diverse South Asian communities and disciplines describe their struggles with gendered aspects of religious and cultural identities, racism and white supremacy, postcolonial and diasporic identities, South Asian queerness, violence against women, and labour and organizing, while critiquing mainstream representations of identity and culture.
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Standing in the Footprints of Beasts
Danica Klewchuk
Part travel diary, part trauma and recovery memoir, this collection of candid and insightful essays explores the author’s upbringing in a religious environment in northern Alberta, the abuses of the nightlife industry, and her experiences travelling as a young white woman through Europe, Australia, and Southeast Asia.
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Still Ruffling Feathers
Let Us Put Our Minds Together
Wanda Wuttunee (Editor)
Diverse scholars engage with the controversial ideas of William Wuttunee’s 1971 book, Ruffled Feathers, offering their own perspectives on the opportunities and challenges facing Indigenous Peoples in Canada, and providing nuanced understandings of ongoing conversations and unresolved issues stemming from the Indian Act.
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Territories of Life
Equivocations, Entanglements, and Endurances
Mario Blaser (Editor), Sylvie Poirier (Editor), Penelope Anthias (Editor)
“Territories of life” is the phrase used to speak about the shapes that Indigenous and more-than-human worlds or collectives adopt in the present as they endure the heavy shadow of modernization and coloniality. The ten chapters of this book are grounded in long-term ethnographic work from various countries, namely Australia, Bolivia, Canada, Colombia, Paraguay, and Taiwan.
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That’ll Never Work Here
Challenging the myths around biking in a winter city; The City Project, Book 2
Patty Wiens, Emma Durand-Wood (Editor), Michel Durand-Wood (Editor)
This second book in The City Project series is authored by Winnipeg’s first “Bicycle Mayor.” In it, she challenges the idea that Winnipeg cannot be made a safe place for cyclists year-round.
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That’s Where You Were, Then
Judith Pond
Through wry and often absurd linked stories, readers witness the life of Jen, from her rough rural childhood in Nova Scotia, where she deals matter-of-factly with a younger brother with a disability, a baby sister, a depressed mother, and motley neighbours, to her adulthood in Calgary where she is an addictions counsellor.
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The A Word
A Global History of the Abortion Struggle
Elizabeth Casillas, Higinia Garay (Illustrator), Karen Simon (Translator)
First published in Spanish, this history of abortion is presented in comics form, making it accessible and concise, as it covers exactly what is meant by the term, together with a global history of the practice and legality of abortion as well as more specific histories in Canada and the United States, focusing on the stories of figures and pivotal moments in the struggle for women’s reproductive rights.
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The Art of War
Yvette Nolan
This exploration of the role of artists in times of war and peace tells the story of Nick, an embedded Canadian artist in the Second World War tasked with capturing the horror on canvas, who goes on a surreal journey and discovers the power of his art. Nick’s story is framed by Heather’s lecture in 2005, wherein she argues that the war made Canadian artists and Canadian artists made Canada.
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The Beauty and the Hell of It & Other Stories
Lynda Williams
This stunning collection of wry, tender, and always authentic stories features women (and one man) – teachers, teenagers, widows, artistic types, students, cashiers, and bar servers – who deal with ex-lovers, complicated families, the death of loved ones, mental illness, and trauma with courage, honesty, and an open heart. Readers won’t soon forget these stories.
