Oscar Wilde’s Paris: Legends and Legacies
Colette Colligan and Gregory Mackie University of Toronto Press 2025 Oscar Wilde’s Paris: Legends and Legacies chronicles Wilde’s lifelong relationship with the French capital, the city he called “the most wonderful city in the world,” and the site of his rise to literary fame, self-imposed exile, and eventual death. Focused on the 1880s to the […]
Canadian Literatures in English: Texts and Contexts
Cynthia Sugars and Laura Moss Ontario: Broadview Press 2025 Canadian Literatures in English, Texts and Contexts reflects the editors’ commitment to historical contextualization, cultural inclusion, and a nuanced understanding of critical debates over the long literary history of what is now Canada. The second edition has been updated throughout to include recent scholarship and fresh […]
Brutal Fantasies
Christine Kim Durham: Duke University Press 2025 In Brutal Fantasies, Christine Kim examines how Western cultural representations of North Korea depend on fantasies of the inhuman. Drawing on films, fiction, and defectors’ life writings from the last two decades, Kim analyzes how these representations construct North Korea as a site of brutality and inhumanity. She […]
Facsimile: Making, Likeness, and Medieval Manuscripts
Siân Echard Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press 2025 Facsimiles are, or claim to be, exact copies of objects, and medieval manuscripts have long been a focus for this kind of reproduction. Today, digitization delivers complete, high-resolution, full-color digital copies of thousands of medieval manuscripts to anyone with an internet connection. But for centuries, scholars in […]
Radio Free Stein
Adam Frank Illinois: Northwestern University Press 2024 What happens when we listen to Gertrude Stein’s plays as radio and music theater? This book explores the sound of Stein’s theater and proposes that radio, when approached both historically and phenomenologically, offers technical solutions to her texts’ unique challenges. Adam J. Frank documents the collaborative project of […]
Stolen Plums
Alice Turski Montreal: Vehicule Press 2025 The poems in Alice Turski’s ravenous and playful Stolen Plums explore the ways we consume and are consumed by those we love and the histories they embody. Poignantly navigating uncertainties of self, country, and family, Turski contemplates the precarities of immigration, belonging, matrilineage, and marriage in unsparing language that straddles […]
Proximities: Literature, Mobility and the Politics of Displacement
John Culbert Liverpool: U of Liverpool Press 2025 As the era of high globalization has given way to a time of resurgent nationalisms, the discourse of travel has undergone significant change. The previous era’s keywords of freedom, mobility and connection increasingly vie with a language of borders, security and national identity. In this study of […]
Marvellous Vegetables in the English Renaissance
Vin Nardizzi Toronto: University of Toronto Press 2025 John Gerard’s natural history of plants, The Herball (1597), is considered a failure in the history of science. Despite this reputation, it has endured as an aesthetic resource. Its illustrations were used as needlework patterns, and strewn across its pages are extracts of classical poetry, including Ovid’s […]
Teeth
Dallas Hunt Pender Harbour: Harbour Publishing 2024 This is a book about grief, death and longing. It’s about the gristle that lodges itself deep into one’s gums, between incisors and canines. Teeth details not only the symptoms of colonization, but also the foundational and constitutive asymmetries that allow for it to proliferate and reproduce itself. […]
The Explorations of Edmund Snow Carpenter: Anthropology Upside Down
Richard Cavell Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press 2024 Edmund Snow Carpenter (1922-2011), shaped by an early encounter with Marshall McLuhan, was a renegade anthropologist who would plumb the connection between anthropology and media studies over a thoroughly unconventional career. As co-conspirators in the founding of the legendary journal Explorations (1953-59), Carpenter and McLuhan established the groundwork […]