Breakaway: The PWHL and the Women Who Changed the Game by Karissa Donkin
This is going to be a key text in the history of hockey.
Non-Fiction
21 Things You Need to Know About Indigenous Self-Government: A Conversation About Dismantling the Indian Act by Bob Joseph
[…] learn about what Indigenous self-government can be, even after hundreds of years of colonialism in North America and the necessary healing and repair that needs to be done.
The Antifa Comic Book (Revised & Expanded) by Gord Hill
On September 2, 2025, Gord Hill’s new revised and expanded graphic history, The Antifa Comic Book, was released in Canada. Days later U.S. President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order designating Antifa a domestic terrorist organization.
You Will Not Kill Our Imagination by Saeed Teebi
You Will Not Kill Our Imagination is an impossibly patient telling of how the author sees us, seeing him.
Banging on the Walls of the Tank by Haidar Eid
Banging on the Walls of the Tank: Dispatches from Gaza collects the writings of Gaza-based professor of postcolonial and postmodern literature, Haidar Eid.
The City of Our Dreaming by Laleh Khalili, V. Mitch McEwen, Gabriela Leandro Pereira, and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, with an introduction by Christina Sharpe
The 2024 Alchemy Lecture took place at York University in October 2024, and is printed here, with an introduction by Christina Sharpe, a noted scholar and author (Ordinary Notes, which is remarkable, changed my life and thinking) who organizes the lecture each year.
Wrestling with Cadence by Dennis Lee
You may know Dennis Lee by the lyrically nonsensical poem and book, Alligator Pie, which came out in 1974.
Harley Parker: The McLuhan of the Museum by Gary Genosko
60 years ago, when Parker and University of Toronto professor Marshall McLuhan were at the height of their cultural influence, form, they said, determines content. Or as McLuhan put it memorably, the medium is the message.
Worldly Girls by Tamara Jong
Worldly Girls by Tamara Jong is a skillfully written memoir about the foray she and her mother made into the Jehovah’s Witness religion, and her ultimate coming of age journey.
The Story of ii’ taa’poh’to’p: University of Calgary’s Journey Towards an Indigenous Strategy
The Strategy sets out a framework for the actions the University is taking and will take as it decolonizes itself and becomes a more equitable institution.
In Search of a Mennonite Imagination: Key Texts in Mennonite Literary Criticism, edited by Robert Zacharias
This is a really interesting anthology, and dare I say key?
When Genocide Wasn’t News, edited by Martin Lukacs, Dania Majid and Jason Toney
In the almost 40 years since Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky published Manufacturing Consent, the media landscape has undergone some severe changes, mostly due to the internet and our reliance on it as a source of news.
Growing Up Urkel by Jaleel White
This is a memoir about a young entrepreneur who understood the value of ingenuity, when to quit and when to pivot long before he had a college education.
Sea of Islands: Exploring Objects, Stories, and Memories from Oceania by Carol E. Mayer
Sea of Islands is one in which a scholar, art lover or dilettante can easily bury themselves for days of learning and pleasure, admiring aboriginal and unique and elaborate art.
Story is a State of Mind by Sarah Selecky
For writers and readers of all sorts, Story is a State of Mind is a book to come back to, again and again.
