Yes, that's right: Hope Circuits is a #1 Best Seller on Amazon. This inspiring book by Jessica Riddell tackles the thorny issues facing higher education (and other organizations) with a hope-based mindset. Get your copy today, from your retailer of choice. buff.ly/I1HZLry

Join Néstor Medina, Becca Whitla, and contributors for a book launch celebrating Decolonizing Church: Emerging Voices Speak. Details here: buff.ly/5NSdsAM Learn more about the book here: buff.ly/RCwI1Kd

A great YouTube interview with Allan Greer, author of Canada in the Age of Rum, courtesy of the Canadian Business History Association. Enjoy! buff.ly/LlI0CN3 Buy the book here: buff.ly/6euTlZc

An interview with Thomas Waugh, author of Writing in the Flesh: Essays on My Lives, My Bodies, My Families, My Places, My Movies, courtesy of Fugues.

"Essential for anyone interested in questions of political legitimacy and the performative aspects of power in a colonial context." Some informative weekend listening, courtesy of the Champlain Society podcast and MQUP author Colin Coates:

Congratulations to MQUP author Susie O'Brien, who was shortlisted for the 2026 Canada Prizes for What the World Might Look Like: Decolonial Stories of Resilience and Refusal. Learn more about the Canada Prizes here: buff.ly/lQrmpeN Read about the book here: buff.ly/gtuAC0w

Some essential reading to provide context for the US-Israeli attacks on Iran and responses throughout the Middle East, new on our blog: buff.ly/vYAmhRp. You can also see what other university presses are publishing on the topic here: buff.ly/3RoY0x6 #ReadUP

The 2026 Canada Prizes shortlist has been announced! Congratulations to MQUP author Susie O'Brien who was shortlisted for What the World Might Look Like: Decolonial Stories of Resilience and Refusal. Congrats also to the many brilliant Canadian authors and publishers on the list!

Under the header "We've got a book for that!" buff.ly/lkhaw1v For anyone following the Bill 21 Supreme Court hearings, we recommend reading The Notwithstanding Clause and the Canadian Charter: Rights, Reforms, and Controversies, edited by Peter Biro.

Join Neil Surkan for the launch of his new poetry collection, Empties in Nanaimo on April 2! More details: buff.ly/awHJZXJ Learn more about the collection: buff.ly/CloZuTa

We are so honoured to be on this list!

Canada in the Age of Rum by Allan Greer follows the thread of a single commodity from West Indian plantations to Newfoundland, Quebec, and the west, revealing rum as a critical lubricant of the social life of early Canada and its particular version of early capitalism. Out now! buff.ly/ThwKGpx

Join David Winterton for the book launch of Toronto Edwardian at Trinity College, University of Toronto tomorrow evening. This special evening will highlight the deep architectural relationship between Frank Darling and Trinity College. Registration is required: buff.ly/IOcCEjM

Join Emilio Rodríguez, along contributors, for the Renewed Canadian Welcome Book Tour! This first stop is in Edmonton on April 7th. Registration is required: buff.ly/5KMlj3z Learn more about the book: buff.ly/8aPoow0

Shallow River of Tears by Andrew R. Basso and Andrea M.L. Perrella draws from a wealth of data to map Settler opinions about Reconciliation in order to strengthen the transitional justice path ahead. Out now! buff.ly/uKWKAV5

You are invited to hear Liam Midzain-Gobin speak on challenging notions of settler colonial sovereignty at a public talk on Friday, Mar. 27 at 5 p.m. Learn more in this excellent feature article in The Brock News: buff.ly/ELBkowa

"With health-conscious young people drinking less than ever before, it’s interesting to look back to an earlier century when Canadians consumed more liquor — a lot more, in fact." Read an overview of Canada in the Age of Rum, Allan Greer's new book, in The Conversation:

The Future Belongs to Those Who Fight by Todd Dufresne is a manifesto against well-mannered nihilism that dares to imagine a new world built on empathy, justice, and reason. Out now! buff.ly/ieSyzX4

My third collection, Empties, is out in the world! SO many friends helped these poems into existence. You know who you are, I hope! Thank you! Here're my three books with @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social side by side for the first time. So much of my life in one place! 💛 www.mqup.ca/Books/E/Empt...

"Full of adventurous precision." A wonderful exploration of Neil Surkan's latest collection of poetry, Empties, in the BC Review:

"We are so far past half measures." A great interview on CBC Superior Morning with Todd Dufresne about his new book, The Future Belongs to Those Who Fight: Climate Revolution for Beginners. buff.ly/eQbfGKh

Outwards from a northern wilderness childhood the poems in Rush of Wingspan by Eleonore Schönmaier thrum musically with intuitive environmentalism in urban, coastal, and boreal forests. Out now! buff.ly/DxSPsfB

An excerpt in the Toronto Star! Get a sneak preview of Allan Greer's Canada in the Age of Rum:

It's World Water Day, observed annually by the United Nations in order to raise awareness about the importance of fresh water. The Lives of Lake Ontario by Daniel Macfarlane details the history of using and abusing this Great Lake. buff.ly/OdStTHC

A lot has changed recently at McGill-Queen’s University Press. On the first day of Spring, we are excited to share what we've been working on with our authors, partners, colleagues, and supporters. Check out our Spring 2026 Newsletter!

In Maidan, Sophia Wilson looks at how the grassroots victory of the Revolution of Dignity in Ukraine renegotiated the social contract and reaffirmed democracy. buff.ly/Hqp5oSD

Join David Winterton for the book launch of Toronto Edwardian at Trinity College, University of Toronto on March 26. This special evening will highlight the deep architectural relationship between Frank Darling and Trinity College. Registration is required: buff.ly/IOcCEjM

Join Neil Surkan for the launch of his new poetry collection, Empties in Nanaimo on April 2! More details: buff.ly/awHJZXJ Learn more about the collection: buff.ly/CloZuTa

Drawn from extensive primary research in Rwanda, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, and Kenya, Illegitimate Justice by Izabela Steflja shows that the stories locals tell about international courts differ radically from those told by the international community. Out now! buff.ly/BpGFO7W

Joy! Rush of Wingspan has been released. #nature #poetry #forests #birds #music #lake #piano #wilderness #wildlife #art #cycling #lovepoems #love #ocean #environmentalism #sea #stillness #vleugel @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social @canadianpoets.bsky.social eleonoreschonmaier.com/2026/03/16/o...

In a powerful interplay of striking descriptions with tender intimations, Empties, Neil Surkan’s third poetry collection, reckons with fatherhood in a depleted and collapsing environment: Is it possible to nurture new shoots while the fires close in? Out now! buff.ly/CloZuTa

Check out new #poetry #books for the week of 3/17 from @subpresspoetry.bsky.social, @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social, @caitlinpress.bsky.social, @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social & @regalhouse.bsky.social. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/new-poetry-t...

"Empties is out today." NEIL SURKAN @neilsurkan.bsky.social Empties @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social www.mqup.ca/Books/E/Empt...

Happy Saint Patrick's Day! Today on the blog, we're highlighting 4 Irish-Canadian books. buff.ly/6iT50NJ

A Renewed Canadian Welcome, edited by Emilio Rodríguez, centres the perspectives of migrants, refugees, and advocates to explore what Canada’s immigration policies would look like if they were reimagined from a human rights perspective, informed by lived experience. Out now! buff.ly/8aPoow0

More about the Hearts of Freedom: Stories of Southeast Asian Refugees exhibition events in Bangkok:

Matthieu Caron will be giving a talk about his book, Montreal After Dark: Nighttime Regulation and the Pursuit of a Global City, at McGill University on tomorrow afternoon! Learn more about the book:

Hearts of Freedom: Stories of Southeast Asian Refugees featured in the Bangkok Biz News! buff.ly/1xFbemY Read more about the book here: buff.ly/HkdQKu6

It's World Water Day! The Lives of Lake Ontario examines the myriad ways Canada and the United States have used and abused this remarkably resilient and uniquely vulnerable resource. Learn more: buff.ly/3yepJ7D

"For fans of old Toronto, historical architecture and how the two influenced each other, Toronto Edwardian is a rich and fascinating dive into a slice of the city’s past." Toronto Edwardian by David Winterton reviewed in the Toronto Sun!

Podcast alert! Elliot Hanowski interviewed on New Books Network about Towards a Godless Dominion: Unbelief in Interwar Canada. Buy the book here: buff.ly/Eo8PuZe Listen to the interview here: buff.ly/VfGU2Td

We are pleased to have two books shortlisted for the 2026 Saskatchewan Book Awards! Elizabeth Quinlan for Standing Up to Big Nickel: The Story of the Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers Strike & Bohdan Kordan for No Place Like Home: Enemy Alien Internment in Canada during the Great War.

I don’t think I’ll ever stop feeling a little thrill every time I spot my books in the wild, like at my lecture last night at St Jerome’s University/University of Waterloo, where my thoughtful hosts had a pile of them for sale. Thanks, @stjeromesuni.bsky.social ! @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social

If you’re at the London Book Fair, why not visit McGill-Queen’s University Press? You can find AUPresses member @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social with Livres Canada Books in booth 6A30! #LBF26 #ReadUP

ICYMI: Author David Winterton on CBC's Metro Morning discussing the architecture of Frank Darling, during a leisurely stroll through Toronto. Listen here: buff.ly/Z7OcMmo Buy your copy of Toronto Edwardian here: buff.ly/8DRW42y

We are honoured to be on the list of 2025 Alcuin Award Winners for Excellence in Book Design in Canada! Special congratulations to Lara Minja for the award-winning design of Ornament and Symbol in French Romantic Architecture. Read more here: buff.ly/sVYuqlR

Join David Winterton for the book launch of Toronto Edwardian at Trinity College, University of Toronto on March 26. This special evening will highlight the deep architectural relationship between Frank Darling and Trinity College. Registration is required: buff.ly/IOcCEjM

An interview with Bohdan Kordan on his newest book, No Place Like Home: Enemy Alien Internment in Canada during the Great War.

Matthieu Caron will be giving a talk about his book, Montreal After Dark: Nighttime Regulation and the Pursuit of a Global City, at McGill University on March 17th! Learn more about the book:

Podcast alert! Colin Coates appeared recently on the Curious Canadian History podcast, talking about his new book, Political Culture in Louis XIV’s Canada: Majesty, Ritual, and Rhetoric. Listen here: shows.acast.com/cool-canadia...