PreviewsIssue 87, Fall/Winter 2025/26
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The Postcolonial Bildungsroman
Narratives of Youth, Representational Politics, and Aesthetic Reinventions
Arnab Dutta Roy (Editor), Paul Ugor (Editor)
With a fresh comparative lens, the diverse essays in this volume demonstrate how postcolonial writers in Asia, Europe, Africa, the Americas, Australia, and New Zealand have transformed the Bildungsroman from an 18th-century European genre into one of the most cosmopolitan literary mediums for communicating concerns about global modernity – concerns around identity, sexuality, human rights, the climate crisis, neo-liberal globalization, and more.
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The Recipe
Armin Wiebe
This play explores issues of social class, property, body image, sexism, and a woman’s reproductive options through the dilemmas of Oata Needarp (engaged to Yasch Siemens, but reconsidering that decision) and Sadie Nickel, who are both pregnant. The solution may lie in Oata’s recipe handed down from her mother, and in the forging of female friendships and the building of self-esteem.
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The Solitary Friend
A Joanne Kilbourn Mystery
Gail Bowen
Joanne’s wide circle of friends and family never fail to provide drama. In this latest book, her oldest and dearest friend from her political days, Howard Dowhanuik, needs reining in, Zack’s old friend Noah Wainberg is going to start a new life with Calista, and Taylor, Joanne’s daughter, has wonderful news about her future life. But past lives come back to haunt friends new and old, and heartbreaking tragedy ensues.
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The Two Faces of Paradise
Ted Smith
Set in the Rocky Mountains of Canada and on the beaches of Thailand in the mid-1980s, this debut novel centres on Edith Warren, thought to be missing, and the men who love her – Robert Percy, her step-uncle and former lover, tasked with going to Thailand to find her; Danny LaChappelle, a businessman and her current lover in Thailand; and Lorne Lund, a wealthy musician in the mountains and her best friend. Can Robert – and the reader – piece together the stories and discover why she lost touch with everyone two months ago?
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The Unpredictable Past?
Reshaping Russian, Ukrainian, and East European Studies
Volodymyr Kravchenko (Editor), Marko Robert Stech (Editor)
Thirty prominent international scholars reconceptualize and decolonize the cluster of Russian, Slavic, post-Soviet, East European, and Ukrainian interrelated disciplines in Western scholarship in the wake of the 2022 invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation.
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The Weather and the Words
The Selected Letters of John Newlove, 1963-2003
J.A. Weingarten (Editor)
Hundreds of never-before-seen letters from John Newlove to such Canadian writers as Margaret Atwood, Susan Musgrave, Michael Ondaatje, and Al Purdy tell the story of the poet’s remarkable writing and troubled life, and pay tribute to the era when letters were the medium through which writers fought, collaborated, conferred, and philosophized about art and culture.
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The World’s End
The Misewa Saga, Book Six
David A. Robertson
The thrilling conclusion to the Misewa Saga fantasy series sees Eli, Morgan, and Emily working to free themselves from captivity amid the war in Misewa, but on top of that, Eli has to find the power of his unique heritage to protect Misewa from colonization, a huge decision that will change his life forever.
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Thresholds, Walls, and Bridges
Journeys Through the Borderlands of History
Elizabeth Jameson
Fourteen essays based on public lectures delivered by historian Jameson explore the histories of borderlands, labour, women, workers, people of colour, and the connected pasts of Canada and the United States, and represent her intellectual evolution as a scholar.
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Troubles Online
Ableism and Access in Higher Education
Chelsea Temple Jones (Editor), Fady Shanouda (Editor), Lisanne Binhammer (Editor)
Through narratives, poetry, interviews, and scholarly analysis, the contributors to this book think critically about how disability is addressed in online classrooms, reflecting on disabled, mad, sick, and crip online pedagogy, and highlighting the possibilities of expanding critical standards for accessible teaching and learning.
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Universal
Renewing Human Rights in a Fractured World
Alex Neve
Weaving together law, history, and stories from decades on the front lines of the struggle for human rights, the activist and former secretary general of Amnesty International investigates where we went wrong, how we have progressed, and what we can do to fulfill the promise that human rights are inherent, inalienable, and applicable to all people.
