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No. 264 (2026): Solidarity: Aesthetics, Politics, Pedagogies

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Published: Jul. 16, 2026 (UTC)

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Table of Contents and Front Matter

Table of Contents and Front Matter

Canadian Literature

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Editorials

Crisis, Again On Solidarity

Smaro Kamboureli

7-22
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Articles

Is Oblique Solidarity Enough? Rethinking the 2024 (Scotiabank) Giller Prize Controversy

Laura Moss

23-42
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When You Can’t Say Palestine Toward a Pedagogy of Encampment

Nat Leduc

43-58
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Messy Methods and Emergent Ethics Reflections on the Transformative Storytelling Project

Markus Harwood-Jones

59-74
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Politics, Poetics, Protest Rita Wong and the Practice of Solidarity

Payal Nagpal, Kit Dobson

75-90
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The White Gaze of Development in Samantha Nutt’s Humanitarian Memoir-festo, Damned Nations

David Jefferess

91-115
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Forum

“Material Acts in a Material World” Black Bibliography, Book History, and Print Culture in Canada

Kristin Moriah

116-118
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Black Bibliography's Pasts in Canada and George Elliott Clarke's Legacies

Jennifer Blair

119-126
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Reflection on the Intersection of Book Studies and Black Studies in Canada

Claudine Bonner

127-131
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Fragments of a Circulatory Life

Muna Dahir

132-139
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Hear and Now An Interview with Whitney French on Founding Hush Harbour Press and Publishing Black Books in Canada

Monique Lee-Vassell, Whitney French

140-153
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In Defence of Black Bibliography A Conversation with George Elliot Clarke

Kristin Moriah, George Elliott Clarke

154-175
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Michelle Good

Renae Watchman

176-183
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Tanya Tagaq

Madeleine Reddon

184-196
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Laura Tohe

Jolene Dezbah Manus

197-208
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Eden Robinson

Frederick White

209-218
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Opinions & Notes

On the First “Canadian Word of the Year” Competition

Stefan Dollinger, Matthew Clark, Paula Contreras Rosas, Jennifer Dinh, Dylan Evangelista, Dristi Gounder, Sophie J. Gunn, Kyan Ho, Alicia Matthews, Natalia Mohar, Naomi Yeung, John J. Chew III

219-233
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Poetry

Not to conceal harm

Daphne Marlatt

242
Terr-oir Terror

Daphne Marlatt

243
Why I Cry Passing a Field of Goats

Anne Hopkinson

244-245
Freedom Ghazal

Alex Deng

246
Omens

Bert Almon

247
Return to Wukang

Jenny Li Chen

248-249
I Light No Further Lamps

Dale Tracy

250
Devotion

Chantel Lavoie

251

Books in Review

Review of Producing Sovereignty: The Rise of Indigenous Media in Canada, by Karrmen Crey

Candis Callison

237-239
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Review of Lha yudit’ih: We Always Find a Way: Bringing the Tŝilhqot’in Title Case Home, by Lorraine Weir with Chief Roger William

Margery Fee

239-241
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