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More than 8,500 Canadian citizens were sent to Canadian internment camps during WWI as part of Canada's first national internment operations. #NationalInternmentEducationDay recognizes the legacy of this injustice. To learn more about the laws and procedurespast and presentwhich allow the state to disregard the basic civil liberties of its most vulnerable citizens, read "Civilian Internment in Canada", edited by #RhondaHinther and #JimMochoruk (University of Manitoba Press): https://uofmpress.ca/.../civilian-internment-in-canada

Missed it? Great review of "Body Stories: In and Out and With and Through Fat" (Demeter Press) [http://demeterpress.org//body-stories-in-and-out-and-with/] in Fat Studies Journal. http://demeterpress.org/.../09/Book-review-Body-Stories.pdf

The 2nd edition of "Rethinking the Politics of Labour", co-edited by #StephanieRoss & #LarrySavage is now available from Fernwood Publishing! In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the need to re-establish the labour movement’s political capacity to exert collective power in ways that foster greater opportunity and equality for working-class people has taken on a greater sense of urgency. Understanding the strategic political possibilities and challenges facing the Canadian l...abour movement at this important moment in history is the central concern of this second edition of Rethinking the Politics of Labour in Canada. With new and revised essays by established and emerging scholars from a wide range of disciplines, this edited collection assesses the past, present and uncertain future of Canadian labour politics in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Bringing together the traditional electoral-based aspects of labour politics with analyses of newer and rediscovered forms of working-class organization and social movement-influenced strategies, which have become increasingly important in the Canadian labour movement, this book seeks to take stock of these new forms of labour politics, understand their emergence and assess their potential impact on the future of labour in Canada. This book brings together a wide range of contributions about labour and politics in Canada, some of them unprecedented. It is much needed: there is nothing like it available and the issues it deals with are becoming ever more important. David Camfield, Labour Studies, University of Manitoba https://fernwoodpublishing.ca//rethinking-the-politics-of-

Missed it? Andrea O'Reilly joins producer, Amanda Gurman for the podcast: "Honest as a Mother": How the Pandemic has Taken a Toll on Mothers. And read more in O'Reilly's new, edited collection (with Fiona Joy Green) "Mothers, Mothering, and COVID-19: Dispatches from the Pandemic" (Demeter Press) http://demeterpress.org//mothers-mothering-and-covid-19-d/

In Anarchist Studies 29.1, Robert Graham reviews three anthologies exploring the #RussianRevolution, including "1917: Revolution in Russia and its Aftermath" (Black Rose Books). Order your copy today! http://blackrosebooks.net//1917%3A+Revolution+in+Rus/82945 See AS 29.1 here, including #OA content: https://bit.ly/3cH1LO8

El Jones's poem "Glass Hands" is a eulogy for the pandemic and a call to action c/o CBC #ElJones is the author of "Live from the Afrikan Resistance!" (Roseway Publishing / Fernwood Publishing) https://www.cbc.ca//el-jones-s-poem-glass-hands-is-a-eulog

New interview with #AprilFord, author of "Carousel" (Inanna Publications). Read in full at the link. Q: What book or books is yours comparable to or a cross between? [Is your book like Moby Dick or maybe it’s more like Frankenstein meets Peter Pan?] A: I used to enjoy saying if Richard Ford’s novel Canada and Jeffrey Eugenides’s novel Middlesex and Iris Murdoch’s novel The Black Prince had a baby, it would be my Carousel. I guess I still enjoy saying it, but with no one to hear me during this epoch of confinement and isolation. . . .

Congratulations to Duke University Press Lambda Literary Award finalists, Ashon Crawley, Cait McKinney, and the late José Esteban Muñoz!

University of Regina Press showcases new #books from their upcoming Spring publishing season! "Cree: Language of the Plains" Jean L. Okimsis "White Coal City: A Memoir of Place and Family" Robert Boschman "Red Obsidian: New and Selected Poems" Stephan Torre... "The Way of the Gardener: Lost in the Weeds along the Camino de Santiago" Lyndon Penner "The Girl from Dream City: A Literary Life" Linda Leith "Carrying the Burden of Peace: Imagining Indigenous Masculinities through Story" Sam McKegney "Gather" Richard Van Camp "Resistance" Sue Goyette (ed.) See full descriptions of each books at https://uofrpress.ca/Books

Releasing March 2021! "Mothers, Mothering, and Covid-19: Dispatches from a Pandemic" edited by #AndreaOReilly and #FionaGreen (Demeter Press). The book includes 45 chapters and 70 contributors. Ten months into the pandemic and there still is little public discussion on the devastating impact of Covid-19 on mothers, or a public acknowledgement that mothering is frontline work in this pandemic. The maternal voices and visions dispatched in this collection will contribute to the necessary and long-overdue conversation on, and action towards, empowered social change for workplace justice and the re-evaluation of care work as an essential part of an economic agenda.

Bob Armstrong wrote about University of Manitoba Press Spring 2021 titles in his Paperchase column in Saturday's Winnipeg Free Press! Details at the link!

January 27! Join Fernwood Publishing for 'Safe Space for White Questions'. This is a series of free, public, monthly drop-in sessions that are open to all but aimed at people who identify as white and are interested in working toward collective liberation. Come ask the questions about race, racism, social change, and social justice you always wonder about but feel nervous asking. You won't offend us (unless you're trying toplease don't do that!). The event will be moderated ...by Alex Khasnabish (Mount Saint Vincent University) and Ajay Parasram (Dalhousie University). This event will be live-streamed via Fernwood Publishing's YouTube channel. Watch here: https://youtu.be/UBniai0u1I4 Can't make it but still have questions you'd like answered? Please leave your questions here: https://forms.gle/6VuZzWrWkumauBma9 Below are dates for future sessions of Safe Space for White Questions: Wednesday Feb. 24th, 11:30am - 12:30pm EST Wednesday March 31st, 11:30am - 12:30pm EST Wednesday April 28th, 11:30am - 12:30pm EST See Less https://www.facebook.com/events/862076531291450/

The Southwest Review kicks off the new year with a deep dive into Eric Plamondon's 1984 Trilogy, translated from the French by Dimitri Nasrallah and originally published by Le Quartanier Éditeur! Now available from Véhicule Press. "It would be presumptuous to suggest that the latest Great American Novel has been written in French by a Quebecois expatriate living in Burgundy, but it seems to be what Plamondon is trying for," writes André Forget. "This capaciousness is possible in large part because Plamondon rejects the conventions of the realist narrative." This set is definitely worth a revisit if the final volume, Apple S, missed your radar when it was published during peak pandemic last spring.

This is TONIGHT! Join Inanna Publications for Inanna Fall Book Launch No. 3: a virtual evening of readings and revelry featuring Lisa de Nikolits ("The Rage Room"), Carol Rose GoldenEagle ("The Narrows of Fear (Wapawikoscikanik)"), Laurie Ray Hill, author ("Paper Stones"), #UrsulaPflug ("Seeds and Other Stories"), and #CaroSoles ("Dancing with Chairs in the Music House"): 5:00-6:30pm EST. #FeministFiction #books Register: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/inanna-booklaunch-fall3/register

'The museum was an entirely contemporary, modern device. It was the technologies of display at a time at which anthropology was involved in fake race science in the operations of empire.' Dan Hicks, author of "The Brutish Museums" (Pluto Press), quoted in Vox:

Have you registered for the launch of "Text Messages" by Yassin Alsalman (Roseway Publishing) happening tomorrow (October 29)? Register ASAP here https://www.eventbrite.com/.../text-messages-creating...

Check out NYU Press' brand new Spring 2021 catalog! Take a look through forthcoming titles to find a new exploration of misogynoir, a stunning memoir of life in Greenwich Village, the latest release in the #AvidlyReads series, and much more! https://bit.ly/3f5woNY

Featured for Second Story Press #SSPHolidayStories Diversity Week: "Since Joel" by Julie L. Schwartz. "[Since Joel] Takes us to the depths of grief and allows us to understand the power and the courage that it takes to face it." Marina Nemat, author of Prisoner of Tehran and After Tehran... All the 2020 Diversity titles are 25% off this week! Learn more: http://ow.ly/MWhT50Cn7g9

Now available from Johns Hopkins University Press: "Feeding the World Well: A Framework for Ethical Food Systems," edited by Alan Goldberg, features discussion by leading experts on the future of food production. Learn more here: http://ow.ly/xAF150BBAQC

Congratulations to Roseway Publishing (Fernwood Publishing) author, #AfuaCooper on receiving the Arts Nova Scotia Portia White Prize award. The Portia White prize recognizes cultural and artistic excellence of a Nova Scotian artist who has attained professional status, mastery and recognition in their discipline over a sustained career. Watch Afua Cooper receive her award with a little help from the House of Eights dancers. Video courtesy of Arts Nova Scotia http://brunswickbooks.ca/Black-Matters/

Releasing November 7: "Cold Case North: The Search for James Brady and Absolom Halkett" (University of Regina Press) ABOUT THE AUTHORS: MICHAEL NEST is a freelance researcher and award-winning author whose work focuses on mining and corruption. Michael lives in Montréal.... DEANNA REDER is a Cree-Métis literary critic and an associate professor in English and First Nations Studies at Simon Fraser University. Deanna lives in Vancouver. ERIC BELL is a member of the Lac La Ronge Indian Band and the owner of La Ronge Emergency Medical Services. Eric lives in La Ronge, Saskatchewan. #coldcasenorth

November 19! Register and attend Inanna Publications Fall Book Launch No. 3: a virtual evening of readings and revelry featuring Lisa de Nikolits ("The Rage Room"), Carol Rose GoldenEagle ("The Narrows of Fear (Wapawikoscikanik)"), Laurie Ray Hill, author ("Paper Stones"), #UrsulaPflug ("Seeds and Other Stories"), and #CaroSoles ("Dancing with Chairs in the Music House"): 5:00-6:30pm. Register: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/inanna-booklaunch-fall3/register

Sarah Carter and Nanci Langford's anthology "Compelled to Act: Histories of Women’s Activism in Western Canada" (University of Manitoba Press) is dedicated to Lillian Shirt, who was born on the Alberta Saddle Lake Cree First Nation in 1940 and who passed away in Edmonton in 2017. https://uofmpress.ca/books/detail/compelled-to-act

November 12 = launch date for "Swallowed" (Véhicule Press) featuring Madeleine Stratford, Dimitri Nasrallah and Steven W. Beattie @ 7:00pm! Free livestream open to the public. Register!

New this fall from Demeter Press: "Mothering and Entrepreneurship: Global perspectives, Identities and Complexities" edited by Talia Esnard and Melanie Knight '[An] original work that approaches mothering and entrepreneurship from a critical perspective by focusing on issues like power, identity, precarity and class. The global perspectives included in the book make the analysis extraordinarily powerful. I am impressed by the intellectually stimulating discussion that is pres...ented in this well organised book and highly recommend it for academics, students, policymakers and community organisations.' --- Dr Srabani Maitra, Lecturer, School of Education, University of Glasgow This book focuses on a specific subset of work and the economy for entrepreneurial mothers across contexts. Here, we explore how socio-cultural, economic and national contexts (re)structure and (re)frame multiple nodes of power, difference, and the lived realities for mothers as workers across diverse contexts. At a broad level, the chapters address the different histories of oppression, movement of people, socio-economic conditions that underpin that experience, and, the various axes of power that affect the precariousness of work and citizenship on a global scale. On a more specific level, we set the work-family discourse within many points of contentions related to how researchers have conceptualized work-life interface, the specific assumptions embedded within these investigations, and the implications of these for how we (re)present the dynamics related to mothering and entrepreneurship. We see this type of interrogation as an important aspect of reframing not just the understanding of work-life interface, but also, that of how these affect the specific practices, choices, and responses of entrepreneurial mothers within specific localities and positionalities.

New this fall from Black Rose Books: 'Advancing Urban Rights: Equality and Diversity in the City" edited by Eva Garcia-Checua and Lorenzo Vidal How can the set of rights that underpin the notion of the right to the city be advanced? In seeking answers to this question over several decades, social mobilizations have been assembled and new political and legal frameworks promoted. New interpretations and political articulations of the right to the city, especially those that h...ave emerged since the end of the 2000s, encourage us to view it through the lens of identity politics. They propose that attention should be given to the diversity of the social groups that live in urban environments, whose voice and agency must be recognized in the construction of the city in the interests of equality and social justice. Addressing these issues not only involves recognizing and valuing the subjects that have historically been marginalized in the construction of urban space, both physical and symbolic. It also means bearing in mind that the city materializes and is experienced in a different way by the different groups that inhabit it through their practices, uses of it and, in short, how their daily life takes shape. Advancing Urban Rights will help both concerned citizens and policy makers identify and analyze redistribution and recognition policies, institutional change, and social production of the city in an increasingly urban world. https://blackrosebooks.com//Advancing+Urban+Rights%3/84369

"'Some features of the world today look like the early Cold War: two powerful countries that each see each other as threatening,' "America's Entangling Alliances" author Jason Davidson (Georgetown University Press) told Newsweek. 'That kind of environment tends to lead to alliance formation, as the big powers want to keep smaller states out of their adversary's orbit, and the smaller states want protection.'"

"Voices of Inuit Leadership and Self-Determination in Canada" (ISER Books) is now available @ www.hss.mun.ca/iserbooks Across these pages, a broad range of perspectives and voices Inuit and non-Inuit, youth and Elders, academics and community members stand united in their commitment to understanding what Inuit leadership is, has been, and will be. Premised on the understanding that new ways of blending traditional knowledge with scientific epistemologies must be forged, this volume represents a continuum of voices and styles, and deploys a diversity of formats, ranging from traditional storytelling to structured critical discourse.

'The Tragedy of Heterosexuality [NYU Press] wastes absolutely no time getting to the point, but while many of the sentences (including the title) made me laugh out loud, it is at heart a somber, urgent academic examination of the many ways in which opposite-sex coupling can hurt the very individuals who cling to it most.' Read the full review in The New York Times Books https://nyti.ms/30QXrqj

Harness the power of permaculture to change yourself and become a regenerative force for the planet. In this video, coauthor of "Human Permaculture: Life Design for Resilient Living" (New Society Publishers), and the cofounder of Collaborative International University of Transition, Bernard Alonso, describes how through human permaculture people can put their talents at the service of the environment, live ethically, and navigate the great transition we face in a world of profound disruption.

TONIGHT! Join Anvil Press author Patrick Friesen at Vancouver Writers Fest's The Poetry Bash! via Zoom/8:00pm PST. Details and registration: https://writersfest.bc.ca/2020-festival-ev/the-poetry-bash/