SEPTEMBER 2025. PRE-ORDER NOW. 2024 is not 1914. Yet, while much has changed since WW1, the global state of imperialism has not. Unlike a hundred years ago, this is no longer a situation of relatively equal adversaries facing off against each other. Rather, we live in a world where one hegemonic power––the USA––is trying desperately… Read more »
May 1, 2025. PRE-ORDER NOW. Every year, 2.6 million babies are stillborn around the world; in Canada, one in every 125 pregnancies ends in a stillbirth. It is September 1991 and Lydia has just given birth to a stillborn child in Montreal. As she and her husband grapple with the after effects, their lives and… Read more »
MARCH 2025. PRE-ORDER NOW. Malory Fleet’s son was killed by bikers and now she’s worried about his missing girlfriend, Amanda. But that case was closed shut by the police a year ago and Frank Cain, the private investigator she’s hired, is reluctant to take it on. On the sometimes seedy streets of uptown Saint John,… Read more »
MARCH 2025. PRE-ORDER NOW. From the highways of Cairo to the outports of Newfoundland, the soul-crushing cubicles of Montreal city work and the deceptive perils of the Quebec countryside, these brilliant short stories lay bare the workings of power and the small acts of both courage and compromise by which those on the margins defy… Read more »
APRIL 1, 2025. PRE-ORDER NOW. Eyes Have Seen, From Mississippi to Montreal is a memoir about growing up black in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. How family, good neighbors and the cultural underpinnings of Newman Quarters kept Fred Anderson grounded and capable of embracing the racial and tyrannical crosswinds of Hattiesburg and the south of the 1960s. With… Read more »
NOVEMBER 2024. Albert Einstein said his “life is divided between equations and politics.” Yet his views on Israel and Zionism were concealed and distorted for decades. Einstein on Israel and Zionism corrects the widely accepted story that Einstein was a major supporter and “champion” of the State of Israel––a fabrication told and retold primarily in… Read more »
NOVEMBER 2024. Autoworkers unionized the General Motors plant in Oshawa in 1937 after a bitterly fought strike that pitted them against a rabidly anti-union government, hostile press and GM corporation. It was a major turning point in Canadian labour history. Crucial factors contributing to the strike’s success include the historical background of working-class struggle in… Read more »
SEPTEMBER 2024 Cate, 43, is a university professor in an unfulfilling marriage. When Nuna, the young Inuk woman she mentors, disappears, Cate and her new friend, Isabel, 28, set out on a journey to find her. On the road, their friendship is tested, Nuna remains elusive, and Cate must contend with her ever-demanding husband who… Read more »
NOVEMBER 2024. This wide-ranging collection of essays explores various milestones and landmarks of American music, theatre, dance–and life in general. From Elvis Presley to Kabuki, from dance to destruction, Blank dissects how culture, society and politics have intersected–sometimes for the better, often not. The title essay, written after the events of October 7, 2023, looks… Read more »
NOVEMBER 2024. Products of popular culture, romance novels have been largely devalued and scorned by cultural gatekeepers. Yet they lend themselves to a historical analysis of how societies attribute a precise place to the impulses of love and codify its manifestations. This book is based on the premise that love is not as spontaneous and… Read more »
