PreviewsIssue 87, Fall/Winter 2025/26
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Desire and the Law
Tristis Ward
In this sci-fi crime thriller, Desire, a half-scale, hyper-advanced android assassin, is reluctantly allied with “The Law,” a rule-obsessed rookie galactic cop, in a hunt for a killer – a hunt that has them hopping across galaxies.
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Destiny
Fractured Kingdom, Book 3
M.L. Fergus
In this last instalment of the epic romantasy trilogy, Persephone knows she has to defeat Mordesius once and for all and prevent the realm from descending into chaos, but first she must find a way to reunite with Azriel, the handsome thief she’s fallen in love with.
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Divided Power
How Federalism Undermines Reconciliation
Emily Grafton
Grafton argues that Canada’s system of federalism, rooted in settler colonialism, has dispossessed Indigenous Peoples for settler benefit. She meticulously traces the ways that federalism limits the potential for reconciliation and proposes alternative power-sharing models.
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Feminist Pedagogy for Teaching Online
Jacquelyne Thoni Howard (Editor), Enilda Romero-Hall (Editor), Clare Daniel (Editor), Niya Bond (Editor), Liv Newman (Editor)
The contributors to this book examine the successes and challenges that interdisciplinary feminist educators have had in infusing feminist pedagogical tenets into their online teaching and learning practices, and they provide practical advice for using digital technology to enact these tenets in the classroom.
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Flow
Women’s Counternarratives from Rivers, Rock, and Sky
Denisa Krásná (Editor), Alena Rainsberry (Editor)
With photography and stories from around the world, Flow captures the personal narratives of women from diverse countries who offer insights into the barriers they have faced, and who redefine what’s possible in outdoor sports such as whitewater kayaking, climbing, mountaineering, and highlining.
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Frank Farley and the Birds of Alberta
Glen Hvenegaard, Jeremy Mouat, Heather J. Marshall
This biography tells the fascinating life of the well-respected amateur naturalist Frank Farley, who made significant contributions to the fields of ornithology and environmental conservation in the first half of the 20th century in Alberta, showing how a single individual can have a profound effect and revealing that concerns about the environment are not new.
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Give Us This Day
Terence Young
This striking collection of short fiction moves from the intimate to the expansive, from the meditative to the urgent, following characters – such as retired grandparents thrust into child care, teachers trying to connect with their students, and couples at a crossroads – whose missteps and circumstances shape them and show the fragility of human relationships.
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Had a Great Fall
Raye Anderson
On maternity leave and restless, Roxanne Calloway can’t resist checking out the body found in a sunflower field near her home in the Manitoba Interlake. When she discovers the body is that of Cooper Jenkins, a retired detective sergeant with the City of Winnipeg Police who saved her life years ago, Roxanne insists on being a part of the investigation.
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Honeydew
Ben Zalkind
This debut dystopian adventure novel follows Rose Gold, who is somehow thrust into the role of renegade mentor and hero to a trio of idealistic young rebels. The target of their sabotage is celebrity Moses Honeydew, CEO of Substrate Inc., and to escape his evil clutches, they go on the lam with Dr. Hansjorg Winteregg. But escape is not really an option when dealing with a multinational corporation with a vendetta.
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How About This??
Michael Morilla
Set in a disintegrating world sometime after the middle of the 21st century, this sci-fi mystery uses false starts, footnotes, lists, and other metanarrative devices to tell the story about how difficult it is to tell the story of Elspeth and Marybeth, who are forced and excited to raise a set of identical twins left on their deck.
