PreviewsIssue 87, Fall/Winter 2025/26
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Unmasking Academia
Institutional Inequities Laid Bare During COVID-19
Irene Shankar (Editor), Corinne L. Mason (Editor)
Highlighting the expertise of historically excluded and currently underrepresented faculty and students, and using methodologies such as auto-ethnography, policy analysis, and Indigenous ways of knowing, this book uses the pandemic as a catalyst for reflection on the intensification and the intersectional impacts of white supremacy, colonialism, xenophobia, homophobia, transphobia, sexism, and misogyny in higher education, and offers recommendations for making higher education an equitable and a just space.
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Vierge
Rachel Mutombo
Four Congolese-Canadian teenage girls meet in a church group. Divine tries to lead them in the ways of Jesus, but Bien-Aimé, Grace, and Sarah more persuasively lead Divine into a world of boys and parties, where barely established friendships are threatened by secrets and gossip.
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Walking the Bypass
Notes on Place From the Side of the Road
Ken Wilson
Drawing on sources and areas of knowledge ranging from philosophical, sociological, and Indigenous to ecological, historical, and literary, this very engaging and reflective book recounts Wilson’s experience walking the pedestrian-unfriendly Regina Bypass with the aim of learning from and building a relationship with the land, while situating the highway within the ongoing history of settler colonialism in southern Saskatchewan.
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Wavelength
Cale Plett
Seventeen-year-old pop sensation Sasha runs from fame to finish high school in a small midwestern city and come out as nonbinary away from the limelight. But they become caught up with Wavelength, a local band, and Lillian, their lead singer. Will Sasha be able to find family and love in this new life, or will their past manager and fame find them and ruin everything?
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We Are All of Us Left Behind
Bradley Somer
This queer coming-of-age story is told by Garrett, a young man who sets out on a journey from his Prairie oil town to Serbia to find his last known living relative, his grandfather, the Serbian author Miloš Mili´c, with only his resourcefulness, wits, and sometimes the kindness of strangers to help him along. With Garrett’s characteristic two lies and a truth sprinkled throughout, this novel explores profound loneliness, the need for belonging and family, and the persistence of hope.
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What Friends Are For
Harriet Zaidman
Set in the 1980s at the height of Morgentaler clinic protests in Winnipeg, this novel tackles the topic of abortion, sensitively showing the complexity of the conflicts, through the story of Leesa, who questions her mother’s anti-abortion activities when she is raped at a party and must grapple with the consequences.
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What is Broken Binds Us
Lorne Daniel
In these evocative poems, Daniel portrays various traumas – bodily injury, addiction, family estrangement, loss of landscape, the effects of slavery and colonialism – and how healing and hope are found in the resulting connection to the land and to others.
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What The Eyes See
Yejide Kilanko, Lindsay Shore (Illustrator)
This folktale tells the story of how Yanibo the tortoise sees humans trading animal bones. Yanibo summons a gathering of all the animals, who are led into action by Akambulo, the hermit crab.
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Where Histories Meet
Indigenous and Settler Encounters in the Toronto Area
Victoria Freeman
This richly illustrated and groundbreaking study was created in consultation with five First Nations in the Toronto area, and brings archival records, oral memory, and the voices of Indigenous Elders and Knowledge Keepers into respectful dialogue to understand the colonial dynamics that still structure Indigenous-Canadian relationships today.
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Where the Cherries End Up
A Memoir
Sandra Ramberran
This courageous memoir tells of how Ramberran reclaimed her identity after a life of ugliness, exploitation, and abuse, beginning with being raped at age 14, and then being groomed for prostitution.
