Gilles Sabourin’s Montreal and the Bomb recalls the time when Montreal was the stage of important nuclear research.
By Clarence Hatton-Proulx
Non-Fiction
In this collection, seven essayists write on a diverse array of intersections between music and politics.
By Malcolm Fraser
This collection of Margaret Laurence's non-fiction is valuable for researchers as well as more casual readers.
By Danielle Barkley
An urgently needed, exceptionally well-researched piece of intelligence about the actual limits to academic freedom that shape the life trajectories of aspiring Black scholars, historically and now.
By Emilie Nicolas
Mary Soderstrom's Concrete features a lively mix of field visits, interdisciplinary research, and personal anecdotes, interwoven with historical research and technical data.
By Morgan Charles
Neglected No More, André Picard’s mix of exposé and impassioned plea, is summed up in the book’s subtitle, The Urgent Need to Improve the Lives of Canada’s Elders in the Wake of a Pandemic.
By Malcolm Fraser
Indigenous voices, immigrant stories, linguistic diversity, gender, and generational divides are at the forefront of this exploration of hip hop’s evolution as a medium both of expression and entertainment in Canada since the mid-1980s
By Darcy MacDonald
This new undertaking by QWF Award- winner Gollner belongs to a specialized category attached to writers with especially fervent followings. Can there be a devoted reader who hasn’t mused on how fun it would be to hang with her favourite writer for a couple of hours?
By Ian McGillis
This volume brings together Indigenous traditional knowledge holders, Indigenous scholars, and settler scholars, whose varied contributions convincingly demonstrate that the biological character of North America has been shaped by millennia of intentional, knowledgeable landscape management.
By Sara Spike
As writer, activist, and podcaster Nora Loreto thoroughly explores in Take Back the Fight, organizing around the feminist cause in Canada has waned without large-scale social movement building. More perniciously, who and what is even considered “feminist” has been defined by corporate and political interests that would be reluctant to actually engage with feminism’s world-changing possibilities.
By Patricia Gélinas Boushel
Charles R. Acland’s American Blockbuster: Movies, Technology, and Wonder picks apart the history and meaning of this universal, yet peculiar, phenomenon.
By Malcolm Fraser
The stories in The Butcher of Park Ex and Other Semi-Truthful Tales, Andreas Kessaris’s book of autobiographical essays, feel pleasantly familiar. For Montrealers, the liberal use of local landmarks and street names helps contribute to the impression that we’ve been here before; over the course of the collection, he attends parties on Clark Street, peruses record stores on Ste. Catherine’s, and recalls childhood trips to the Fairview centre in Pointe-Claire and Les Galeries d’Anjou.
By Quinn Mason