Happy holidays / Joyeuses fêtes! The McGill-Queen's University Press offices will be closed from 22 December 2025 to 5 January 2026. We look forward to working with you in the new year!

Early reviews rolling out for The Price of Gold, this one for Literary Review of Canada by Ron Verzuh: "Sandlos and Keeling have backed up their history with clear-eyed research and deep digging into fact-filled reports, some of them hidden from public view." reviewcanada.ca/magazine/202...

"Morality squads" and spiraling police budgets: A fascinating article in The Conversation by MQUP author Matthieu Caron: buff.ly/hZUZQgw Get your copy of Montreal After Dark here: buff.ly/ksVfWku #Montreal

Recommended reading for International Migrants Day: Knowledge, Power, and Migration by Yasmeen Abu-Laban, Mireille Paquet &Ethel Tungohan. Or any other book in our Refugee and Forced Migration Studies series! Read more about the book: buff.ly/3ZEvz6N Learn about the series: buff.ly/lKzdeve #IMD2025

Social Resilience and the Urban Migrant Experience illuminates both the impediments to newcomer integration and the transformative capacities of newcomers to engage successfully in adaption and resistance. Out now! buff.ly/aJVhQJl

A great Turning Pages interview with MQUP author Stephen Monteiro on his recent book, Needy Media: How Tech Gets Personal. Check it out:

Congrats to Ailén Cruz on the publication of From Griffin to Axolotl - and thanks for sharing the experiences of being a first-time author on Substack! Read the post here:

The Movers investigates the deeper historical roots and wider social contexts of key Israeli artworks and their public reception. Out now! buff.ly/7OzCege

"What do we lose when we centre dominion and power instead of relation to people and land?" Read more in the Tyee Weekender:

Congratulations to Katarzyna Nowak for winning the second prize for Best Historical Book by the Polish Foreign Ministry for Kingdom of Barracks: Polish Displaced Persons in Allied-Occupied Germany and Austria. Learn more about her book: buff.ly/U91YR9S

We are delighted to see Other Voices in Soviet History: Collected for a Devil’s Advocate, edited by Heather D. DeHaan, Dan Healey, and Tracy Mcdonald highlighted in this list of winter reads from @mcmasterhum.bsky.social! buff.ly/mmAcKZr

For those who like a festive tipple, we’ve got cocktail creations from the jazz age and beyond, books for wine connoisseurs, and tales of the origins of Absinthe Browse more: buff.ly/FEDRIRi @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social @univnebpress.bsky.social @iupress.bsky.social @nyupress.bsky.social #GiftGuide

Lasting Disruption is the first comprehensive cross-sectoral analysis of COVID-19’s impact examines its effects across Canadian society and offers practical recommendations for evidence-based policy in health, education, labour, governance, and equity. Out now! buff.ly/M4KuWHZ

We published 9 new books this month, check out the full list in our latest blog post! buff.ly/qsmjNJe

Narrating Transitional Justice asks: what are the discourses embedded in the varied stories of reconciliation actors, and how do these function as acts of state-making after atrocity? Out now! buff.ly/uh7nnOy

What an honour to have 18 MQUP titles on this year's Hill Time's Top 100 Best Books 2025! buff.ly/Bm5wPXT

Join Daniel Macfarlane for a talk tomorrow evening at the Great Lakes Museum in Kingston, drawing from his book The Lives of Lake Ontario: An Environmental History. Learn more: buff.ly/PMTNfEz

Lives Altered by War is an ethnographic account of civilians volunteering for the Ukrainian army and caring for displaced individuals in the first year of the Donbas war. Out now! buff.ly/s5Eim9a

Communing Data Literacy offers practical strategies for engaging communities in productive dialogue about datafication inspired by Latin American perspectives. Out now! buff.ly/8ChXiAV

Congratulations to Magdalena Kazubowski-Houston, author of Randia’s Quiet Theatre: Performing Care and Activism with a Romani Elder, for winning the 2025 Heldt prize for the Best Book in New and Innovative Scholarship! Learn more about the book: buff.ly/4vhGBtm

From Griffin to Axolotl presents the bestiary as a distinct genre within Hispanic literature, examining its resurgence in the contemporary canon. Out now! buff.ly/53dbXXD

Day Two at #ReadQuebec! Thanks again to AELAQ for making it happen.

Day One at Read Quebec! Thanks to our brilliant colleagues at aelaq for organizing the New Knowledge: Nonfiction Lightning Round with MQUP authors Martha Langford, Stephen Monteiro, Alex Tipei, and Tom Waugh.

Come and visit our table at the Read Quebec Book Fair in Montreal all weekend! More details here: buff.ly/tRVDQ4Q

Decolonizing Church brings together varied theological voices to explore how Christian scholars and church leaders can reconfigure theology, ethics, and church practices. Out now! buff.ly/LynCxPh

Writing in the Flesh by Thomas Waugh confronts the struggle of writing the self, recounting Waugh’s transitions and transformations from preacher’s kid to porn teacher, New Left activist, and expert in documentary, queer, and Canadian film. Out now! buff.ly/58LYrsw

Terra Invicta presents intellectual and creative responses to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, with an eye toward the future of Ukrainians’ relationship to the land they are defending. Out now! buff.ly/tnuTlSu

Join Daniel Macfarlane for a talk on December 11 at the Great Lakes Museum in Kingston, drawing from his book The Lives of Lake Ontario: An Environmental History. Learn more: buff.ly/PMTNfEz

Examining the periodical as a distinct genre of print cultural expression, Publishing Place rethinks the relationship between periodical form, editorial practice, and place on Canada’s east coast during the early twentieth century. Out now! buff.ly/8STg3fz

After months of dedicated behind-the-scenes work, we are thrilled to announce the launch of our new website at mqup.ca.

At Home in the Cold brings to light the stories of five white and northern Indigenous women who travelled between the eastern Arctic and America between 1890 and 1940 in connection with exploratory expeditions. Out now! buff.ly/2ZRWQQU

my book, Out of School, in good company at EJ Pratt Library @victoriacollege.bsky.social #outofschool @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social

An excerpt from Irrational Publics and the Fate of Democracy by Stephen J. A. Ward. Check out the book: buff.ly/7TFrDL7

Secwépemc People, Land, and Laws is a journey through the 10,000-year history of the Interior Plateau nation in British Columbia. Out now! buff.ly/FSNRGEB

This one - Needy Media: How Tech Gets Personal - came out just 2 months ago, but it’s gotten me more media attention than I’ve ever had, because we all can relate to device dependency & data extraction.

La migration forcée au Canada met en lumière les expériences vécues de déplacement et les politiques migratoires aux paliers municipal, provincial, territorial et fédéral, avec une attention particulière pour l’expérience québécoise et les minorités francophones. buff.ly/oijhlhs

In the piece below, Dave Leblanc recounts a stroll he took with MQUP author David Winterton that showcases architect Frank Darling's contribution to the city of Toronto. Learn more in Winterton's book Toronto Edwardian: buff.ly/aut4Zqs

On the 2nd December Kieran Bonner will be launching his book: Euphoria & Symposia, with a talk on 'the dialect of desire in thinking, drinking and well-being' at the SPCC conference in Cork. More information here ⬇️ buff.ly/jvBz6dJ @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social Buy the book here:📚 buff.ly/MBpN6BL

I’m giving a talk about my new book at Newman Theological College in Edmonton today, and they have a whole pile of copies sitting here waiting. Love to see it! @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social

After months of dedicated behind-the-scenes work, we are thrilled to announce the launch of our new website at mqup.ca.

Greg Ryan reviews ‘Drink and Democracy: Alcohol and the Political Imaginary in Colonial Australia’, by Matthew Allen McGill-Queen’s University Press @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Highly recommend Sandlos and Keeling's surprisingly hopeful book from @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social about Yellowknife's Giant mine disaster (slow-motion over decades but still disaster) - which I got to review for @theseaboardreview.ca www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/the-price-...

Mon livre, "La ville énergivore", sortira en juillet 2026 à @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social Il porte sur l'histoire des transitions énergétiques à Montréal au 20e siècle. www.mqup.ca/Books/L/La-v...

Congrats to our good friends at Concordia University Press! @concordiapress.bsky.social www.thebookseller.com/comment/the-...

This UP week we #TeamUP with @nyupress.bsky.social to discuss food in the city! Check out our executive director Lisa Quinn's post: buff.ly/WnfizBO

In honor of #UPWeek, we've partnered with @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social to explore how food shapes identity across borders. Nothing says NYC like pastrami on rye from Katz's, but did you know Montreal has its own take on the Jewish deli tradition? Learn about that here:

It's UP week and at @nyupress.bsky.social we #TeamUP with our friends at @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social to #ReadUP with a focus food in the city.

... Featuring translations from @bucknellupress.bsky.social, @cmupress.bsky.social, @uchicagopress.bsky.social, @upcolorado.bsky.social, @columbiaup.bsky.social, @floridapress.bsky.social, @livunipress.bsky.social, @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social https://bit.ly/43S4pf8 ...

I'm going to be very busy this week talking about my new book, The Jesuit Relations: A Biography (published by @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social). Here are two opportunities to listen in online (two distinct talks! Come to one or both!):

University Press Week 2025 is about collaboration. Canadian university presses came together in this two-page ad in the Literary Review of Canada. Take a look! More info about #UPWeek: https://bit.ly/497lEN1 ##TeamUP #ReadUP @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social @wlupress.bsky.social @ubcpress.bsky.social