PreviewsIssue 86, Spring/Summer 2025
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Finding Flora
Elinor Florence
Opening dramatically with a leap from a moving train, this novel follows Flora Craigie, recently arrived in Western Canada from Scotland, as she flees an abusive husband and manages to claim a workable homestead in the Alberta parkland thanks to the knowledge and help of other strong single women she meets and lives beside.
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Five Senses for Métis Babies
Leah Dorion, Leah Dorion (Illustrator), Irma Klyne (Translator), Larry Fayant (Translator)
This board book features Dorion’s usual ornate and vivid style of illustration. Told in English and Michif, the book shows a baby’s five senses in the context of Métis culture– tasting berries, hearing fiddle music, and more.
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Food for the Journey
A Life in Travel
Elizabeth Haynes
Loosely organized around meals, the essays that make up this memoir take the reader to faraway places – researching the author’s father’s time working in Nigeria, attending a traditional funeral in Indonesia and a family wedding in North Carolina, cycling through Cuba, volunteering in the Philippines, and more. Often accompanied by close family members, Haynes observes other cultures with sensitivity, compassion, and gratitude.
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For the Love of a Son
A Memoir of Addiction, Loss, and Hope
Scott Oake
This raw and candid memoir tells how Oake and his wife Anne did their best at supporting their son Bruce who struggled with ADHD and eventually with an opioid addiction that led to his accidental overdose at the age of 25. The parents and their younger son, Darcy, turned this loss into a way to help thousands of others by establishing the Bruce Oake Recovery Centre, staffed almost entirely by addicts and alcoholics in recovery.
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Founding Folks
An Oral History of the Winnipeg Folk Festival
Kevin Nikkel
Through interviews with staff, volunteers, and musicians like Bruce Cockburn and Tom Jackson, Nikkel tells the story of 50 years of the Winnipeg Folk Festival, how Mitch Podolak brought it into being, and how it has grown to become one of the most influential folk festivals in North America. Nikkel explores the relationships between politics and culture, and provides insight into the lifelong friendships that developed among some of folk music’s most defining figures.
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Game Changers
Stories of Hijabi Athletes from around the World
Charlene Smith, Natalya Tariq (Illustrator)
This illustrated non-fiction anthology features the stories of 13 inspiring hijabi athletes from around the world – Egyptian beach volleyball player Doaa Elghobashy, Pakistani weightlifter Kulsoom Abdullah, and Iranian triathlete Shirin Gerami, to name a few. The book also includes a list of more hijabi athletes, brief appendices on wearing the hijab and the requirements of modest sportswear, a glossary, and a list of resources.
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Great Minds in Despair
The Forced Migration of German-Speaking Neuroscientists to North America, 1933 to 1989
Frank W. Stahnisch
Focusing on the years between 1933 and 1989, this book examines the long-term effects of the forced migration of hundreds of neuroscientists and biological psychiatrists from Nazi Germany and its surrounding countries in the 1930s and 1940s on the scientific and medical cultures of North America and on the researchers themselves.
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Green
Zachari Logan
This collection of ekphrastic poems is accompanied by green sketches made as Logan travelled the world – to places such as New York City, London, Winnipeg, Chicago, and Los Angeles – responding with a queer artist’s perspective to famous works of art as well as to art that has been lost or destroyed, and art that is found in nature and on city sidewalks.
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Hag Dances
Susan Wismer
With this new collection, Wismer takes a hard look at herself, courageously making the effort to change and heal, and to overcome her anger, hate, and fear, to go beyond prejudice and manipulation to work toward true reconciliation.
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Harley Parker
The McLuhan of the Museum
Gary Genosko
Genosko uncovers the legacy of Harley Parker, the Canadian museum exhibition designer, typographer, and painter, and explores his innovative concepts for reshaping museums as perceptual laboratories.
