PreviewsIssue 87, Fall/Winter 2025/26
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The Fulcrum
Michael Decter
Picking up where Shadow Life left off, this novel sees Matthew Rice starting a new phase of his life – moving on and away from his work as a Toronto city manager and from the traumatizing experience of serving on a jury to do graduate studies in climate science at Harvard and reconnect with his new love, Mary Louise, whom he met in Dublin. However, Irish troubles and environmental disaster threaten their happiness.
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The Gates of the Sea
Migration and Rescue at the Edges of Europe
Luna Vives
Vives explores how governments have redefined maritime search and rescue systems toward border control, and how in Spain, where this responsibility has been assigned to a civilian agency rather than a military force, the workers of the agency have organized to resist government efforts to turn them into border enforcers, dedicating themselves to saving lives.
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The Genocide Continues
Population Control and the Sterilization of Indigenous Women
Karen Stote
Stote traces the historical, political, economic, and policy context informing the coerced sterilization of Indigenous women from 1970 onward, showing how federal, provincial, and corporate activities intersected to criminalize and regulate Indigenous reproduction.
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The Idea of An Entire Life
Poems
Billy-Ray Belcourt
In his characteristic autobiographical and philosophical style, Belcourt’s latest collection explores the past, the value of poetry, the persistence of grief, and the comfort of the northern forest, and draws upon historical documents, art, literature, and criticism. Forms such as sonnets (including a crown of sonnets), erasure poems, ekphrastic poems, field notes, and fragments are used to sometimes humorous, more often heartbreaking, effect.
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The Keystone Province
Politics and Governance in Manitoba
Kelly Saunders (Editor), Christopher Adams (Editor)
This accessible and engaging analysis looks at Manitoba’s political history, context, culture, institutions, processes, communities, sectors, parties, and personalities, from the government of Louis Riel to that of Wab Kinew.
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The Longest Night
Lauren Carter
This mesmerizing genre-blending thriller – with some time travel, magic, and romance mixed in – explores belonging, trauma, power, and love in the story of 19-year-old Ash Hayes. After being locked out of her family home in rural Minnesota one frigid winter night, she is taken in by neighbours she doesn’t know, and she soon realizes that time, place, and reality itself are not as stable as she once assumed.
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The Material Mind
Reduction and Emergence
Max Kistler
This book links the question of causal efficacy of cognitive properties and events with issues of their reducibility, with the reality of causal powers, and with a relevant concept of emergence, putting the issue of understanding how the mind fits into the natural order into a broad perspective.
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The Museum as Large-Room Pinball Machine
A 1967 New York City Seminar Featuring Marshall McLuhan, Harley Parker, and Museum Professionals
William J. Buxton (Editor)
Drawing on extensive archival sources, Buxton sheds light on the context of a two-day seminar in New York City in 1967 about museum communication; the main participants and organizers, including the moderators, Marshall McLuhan and Harley Parker; its funding; and its reception. Also included are essays by Gary Genosko and David Howes.
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The Next War
Indications Intelligence in the Early Cold War
Timothy Andrews Sayle
Drawing on recently declassified documents, this first full account of the development of the allied indications network during the early Cold War traces the decisions and choices made by intelligence organizations in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom to coordinate their assessments, and explains Canada’s prominent role alongside its intelligence partners.
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The Ogre Club
Jon Redfern
In this crime thriller, insurance fraud investigator Richard Suttle does a favour by going to Mexico City to look for his friend’s son, who in addition to horning in on the tourist drug trade, tries to blackmail a powerful TV evangelist who is running a child sex trafficking ring. Can Suttle find Brendan alive and avoid being killed himself?
