PreviewsIssue 87, Fall/Winter 2025/26
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Listen!
Knowing the World and Fighting to Change It
Scott Neigh
Drawing on his 25-year history of writing, radio, and journalistic work grounded in listening to the voices of Canadian activists and organizers, Neigh expands the concept of listening beyond an individual, passive act to an act inherently fundamental to constructing a socially just world.
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Little Deaths
Sex and Psychoanalysis in the Age of Pandemics
Ricky Varghese (Editor)
The latest in the Exquisite Corpse series uses the AIDS crisis as a reference point to draw comparisons to and distinctions from the COVID-19 pandemic to answer the questions: What does it mean to have a sex life in the middle of a global health crisis? Are some risks worth taking?
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Little Shoes
David A. Robertson, Maya McKibbin (Illustrator)
In this beautifully told picture book, sensitive young James goes with his k¯okom on a march to honour residential school children who didn’t come home, which ends in front of a memorial with a pile of teddy bears, flowers, tobacco ties, and little shoes. That night when he can’t sleep, he finds comfort in cuddles and conversation with his mother.
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Living Language Rights
Constitutional Pathways to Indigenous Language Education
Lorena Sekwan Fontaine
Fontaine documents the history of First Nations’ language transmission on the Prairies, demonstrates how Indigenous language rights are deeply embedded in both First Nations law and Canadian constitutional law, and focuses on education as the path to Indigenous language revitalization.
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Maggie Lou Meets Her Match
Arnolda Dufour Bowes, Karlene Harvey (Illustrator)
In this second book about the irrepressible Métis girl, Maggie Lou meets her match in the form of a new cousin Rosie, who is a rival in all kinds of ways until they become friends; a horse of her own named Hot Cocoa and the challenge of learning to ride; and finally, training for the famous Otipîm’sowak Race, a Métis voyageur relay. Maggie Lou meets all these challenges with enthusiasm and the help of her parents, kokhom and moshôm, and aunty and uncle.
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Man in the Shadows
Gordon Henderson
This prequel to the historical epic Out of the Shadows builds on the complicated history of the assassination of Canada’s most eloquent Father of Confederation, and former Irish nationalist, Thomas D’Arcy McGee.
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Mary and her Métis Grandma
Rita Jasper
A work of autofiction, this book has two narratives, one following Mary’s life in the 1980s as she spends her teenage years with her grandmother, who supports her with a powerful love, and the second the story of her grandmother’s life beginning at the turn of the 20th century.
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Maya Inside
Alison Hughes, Brady Sato (Illustrator)
When Maya is teased at school, she retreats into a cardboard box, where she is safe to be herself and to imagine, dream, and create. She takes her box everywhere, and the children at school eventually get so used to it, they forget she is inside. One day, while watching the other children freely running and playing, she bravely steps outside to join them.
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Most Grievous Fault
Meg Todd
Crystal Constantine, 29 years old and struggling to pay the rent and meet the overwhelming needs of her 14-year-old daughter, Becky, who is suspected of having fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, is not coping well. But when Becky responds positively to the rules and structure of a private Catholic school, Crystal starts to think that a similar change to her life – that is, dating the straitlaced, religious Tim – might work. But in order to do so, she has to hide who she is and perpetuate the intergenerational trauma that started with her own alcoholic mother.
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Mountain Voices
The Mountain Legacy Project and a Century of Change in Western Canada
Eric Higgs (Editor), Zac Robinson (Editor), Mary Sanseverino (Editor), Kristen Walsh (Editor)
Alpinists, activists, artists, and mountain researchers share the ways Canadian mountains have affected their lives in this collection of short essays, each accompanied by a pair of photographs from the remarkable archive of the Mountain Legacy Project.
