The Mobile Ruin: The Everyday Life of the Berlin Wall buff.ly/PPdOaRa

Canada in the Age of Rum by Allan Greer buff.ly/8ZX1sPs

Eating the Urban Wild: Food and Foraging in Montreal by Natalie Doonan buff.ly/wYF3IUG

On this National Tattoo Day, we recommend Needle Work: A History of Commercial Tattooing in Canada by Jamie Jelinski! Learn more: buff.ly/R9cKRHd

The Future Belongs to Those Who Fight: Climate Revolution for Beginners by @drtdufresne.bsky.social buff.ly/OrW8nwZ

The Hidden Curriculum of Video Games by David I. Waddington buff.ly/SnjGJWi

Ecological Nation: buff.ly/3OhRQ2T Lament for a Nation: buff.ly/XhW9AAQ

Transnational Italians and the Culture of Everyday Life by Abril Liberatori explores the boundaries of ethnic identity and the effects of migration on people and families. Out now! buff.ly/qpjBRos

We've got 8 new books out this month! Check out the full list: buff.ly/v0a41X3

The Future Belongs to Those Who Fight by @drtdufresne.bsky.social is a manifesto against well-mannered nihilism that dares to imagine a new world built on empathy, justice, and reason. buff.ly/OrW8nwZ

We're hiring for two student positions with McGill's Work Study Program! Editorial Student Deadline to apply: 17 August 2026 *** Publicity Assistant Deadline to apply: 31 July 2026 buff.ly/sGOYAsf

Rethinking Homicide by Colton Fehr offers a compelling argument for constitutionally restructuring homicide law in Canada and explores how Parliament may be compelled to respond to a new wave of constitutional challenges. Out now! buff.ly/021bW09

This month marks 90 years since the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. Wars of Conviction explores Canadians’ decisions to take up arms in the others' wars, including the Spanish Civil War, and the controversy surrounding their commemoration. Out now! buff.ly/Wa3aZVs

Today marks the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Company of Young Canadians! Mirrors of a Generation by Kevin Brushett is a rich portrait of the youth program tasked with alleviating poverty and disenfranchisement across Canada. Learn more: buff.ly/i3OdL7B

The Future Belongs to Those Who Fight by @drtdufresne.bsky.social is a manifesto against well-mannered nihilism that dares to imagine a new world built on empathy, justice, and reason. buff.ly/OrW8nwZ

Arguing for logic as a tool we can use for fairness instead of reinforcing injustice and exclusion, A Logician’s Code of Conduct by Patrick Girard reimagines logic as flexible, creating spaces of inquiry neutral in content and equitable in participation. Out now! buff.ly/IH42FQ3

Learn more in Ecological Nation: Toward Peace, Order, and Good Government by Byron Williston buff.ly/IC0RwNL

Call and Response-ability, edited by Karina Vernon and Winfried Siemerling, is a groundbreaking approach to artistic practices, audiences, and pedagogy in relation to Black Canadian literature, music, performance, and visual art. Out now! buff.ly/ZX5W8et

David Waddington was interviewed on CTV News about the real hidden risk of video game addiction! buff.ly/c4lb9Je Learn more in his book, The Hidden Curriculum of Video Games: buff.ly/SnjGJWi

Congratulations to Ross Eaman for winnning MEA's Susanne K. Langer Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Symbolic Form! Learn more about Architecture as Communication: A Medium Like No Other buff.ly/1mD1jh2

Congratulations to Kiran Mehta for winning the Royal Historical Society First Book Prize for To Detain or to Punish: Magistrates and the Making of the London Prison System, 1750–1840! Learn more about the book: buff.ly/EZexw09

July is National Anti-Boredom Month! Wish I Were Here by Mark Kingwell is an urgent, timely, and political analysis of the boredom that dominates our everyday immersion in distracting technologies. Learn more: buff.ly/9Y8Fvqa

Summer reading recommendations, courtesy of McGill News. We are glad to see Allan Greer's Canada in the Age of Rum on the list! buff.ly/RmIllUb

This Canada Day, we've come up with a reading list of books about migration and immigration within a Canadian context! buff.ly/9sjrQKt

Spotted in Victoria, BC! Martha Langford's History of Photography in Canada, Volume One, on display at Ivy's Bookshop. Excellent recommended reading for #CanadaDay. Buy the book here: buff.ly/NvlLD0E

In his guest blog piece, Cody Groat provides vital context for the central conflict animating his book: how national history is constructed, celebrated, and contested – and who gets to decide. buff.ly/FgaH7Bq

Today is World Social Media Day! Surveying products and practices across a half century, in Needy Media Stephen Monteiro argues that the appeal of portable, networked personal media devices lies as much in how they behave as it does in the information they convey. buff.ly/TZ373XD

Forged in respect and peace, but later abrogated by the British, the Peace and Friendship Treaties bound nations as equals. This powerful collection argues that the treaties are still alive and are foundational to any just relationship between Indigenous and settler peoples. buff.ly/Dc9zfR2

"It’s time to be 'Canada Strong' not only when arranging trade and security deals, but when it comes to our culture in general and, in particular, to the books on the shelves of our schools, libraries, and bookstores." Marc Côté of @cormorantbooks on the need for a Cdn tax credit: buff.ly/J1TdSe4

The Montreal International Jazz Festival starts today! Statesman of the Piano is the previously unpublished autobiography of a Canadian-born pianist who played with many of the twentieth century’s jazz and blues greats in Detroit, Harlem, and Montreal. buff.ly/hmeF2B8