PreviewsIssue 87, Fall/Winter 2025/26
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On Settler Colonialism in Canada: Lands and Peoples
David MacDonald (Editor), Emily Grafton (Editor)
Featuring perspectives of diverse thinkers from a range of disciplines, this first book in a two-part project (the second part focuses on actions) examines how settler identities are fashioned in opposition to nature, how they have come to be predicated on racialization and white supremacy, and how they have been constructed in relation to multiculturalism.
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On Wings of Blood (Standard Edition)
A Novel
Briar Boleyn
The first book in this dark academia fantasy romance introduces half-fae Medra Pendragon, who is the last of the dragon riders, in a world where there are no dragons left. Even so, she is captured and kept by the highblood vampires, betrothed to the arrogant Blake Drakharrow, and sent to Bloodwing Academy, where all the students fight – even to the death – for power.
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Only the Scent of You Remained
Duncan Mercredi
In his latest collection, the former Poet Laureate of Winnipeg offers up a balanced truth by reflecting back on his life, the roads taken that led him to Winnipeg, and the people who have influenced him.
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Ottawology
Tonya K. Davidson
Offering a template for how to scrutinize the interactions between the weight of history and the motion of everyday life in a city, Davidson takes readers on a tour through Canada’s capital city, which is populated not only by government workers and power brokers, but also by students, seniors, eels, turtles, and skaters, as she tells stories of nightlife, policing, play, libraries, rivers, and malls to show how social structures, sustainability, and social life intersect.
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Policing Black Lives, Revised and Expanded Edition
State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present
Robyn Maynard
This revised and expanded edition of the bestselling first comprehensive account of the state-sanctioned surveillance, criminalization, and punishment of Black people in Canada updates the original text in the wake of global Black uprisings in 2020 and offers new insights on how to build liveable futures without policing.
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Portage and Main
How an iconic intersection shaped Winnipeg’s history, politics, and urban life
Sabrina Janke, Alex Judge
Winnipeg’s Portage and Main has always been far more than an intersection, and this book explores stories from throughout the city’s history, including how it was closed to pedestrians 50 years ago, and all the efforts made to open it again this year. The intersection’s history reflects ideas of what Winnipeg has been, what it is, and what it could be.
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Precarious
The Lives of Migrant Workers
Marcello Di Cintio
Di Cintio tells the stories of people across Canada who have come from elsewhere to work in fields, care for the sick and elderly, serve coffee, and perform other “invisible” work, showing their perseverance and humanity, but also the precariousness of their situations, and how those situations leave them vulnerable to mistreatment.
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procession
Katherena Vermette
Moving from a 1980s childhood to middle age, vermette explores what it means to be one part of a long line of women – and how to honour that by creating literature, by acknowledging and carrying one’s sovereign and sacred body, by forging connections with family and friends, and by learning to grow into oneself and to grow old.
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Public Service in Tough Times
Working Under Austerity in Manitoba
Jesse Hajer (Editor), Ian Hudson (Editor), Jennifer Keith (Editor)
Using survey data from thousands of public sector workers, carefully compiled statistics on spending and staffing, and a participatory action research methodology, the contributors to this book demonstrate how Pallister’s Progressive Conservative government from 2016 to 2023 cut government expenditures disproportionately – slashing health care and housing funding, freezing wages, and eliminating jobs – to benefit the wealthy and exacerbate poverty and inequality.
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Raising Spirit in Blackfoot Territory
Collaborative Design and Ethnographic Refusal
Jan Newberry
Through an examination of the ethnographic dilemmas in the Raising Spirit project – a multi-year, multimodal collaboration between a university and Indigenous community organization to articulate child-rearing values in Blackfoot territory – this book looks at how to produce knowledge in a system designed to erase the voices it is trying to bring to the fore, and reimagines ethnographic methods in anthropology.
