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New Knowledge: Nonfiction Lightning Round - Read Quebec December 6, 2025 at 12 pm – 1 p.m. Main Stage, Salle des célébrations Nathalie Cooke Martha Langford Valérie Lefebvre-Faucher Stephen Monteiro Francine Pelletier Catherine Richardson Alex R. Tipei…

On Saturday at noon, several MQUP authors will be participating in the New Knowledge: Nonfiction Lightning Round.

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Come and visit our table at the Read Quebec Book Fair in Montreal all weekend!

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Decolonizing Church brings together varied theological voices to explore how Christian scholars and church leaders can reconfigure theology, ethics, and church practices.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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The fully redesigned site demonstrates the strength of MQUP’s publishing program and offers an improved ecommerce experience while also reflecting the values and relationships that are important to the Press.

Check it out: mqup.ca

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.

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

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Our great enemy today is our desire for enemies From the book Balsillie Prize-nominated "Irrational Publics and the Fate of Democracy."

An excerpt from Irrational Publics and the Fate of Democracy by Stephen J. A. Ward.

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Secwépemc People, Land, and Laws is a journey through the 10,000-year history of the Interior Plateau nation in British Columbia.

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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.

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A stroll through the works of Canada’s Edwardian architect, Frank Darling The University of Toronto’s main downtown campus serves as a microcosm of the Scarborough-born architect’s work

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.

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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

The fully redesigned site demonstrates the strength of MQUP’s publishing program and offers an improved ecommerce experience while also reflecting the values and relationships that are important to the Press.

Check it out: mqup.ca

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

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The Price of Gold: Mining, Pollution, and Resistance in Yellowknife by John Sandlos and Arn Keeling Reviewed by Dawn Macdonald

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

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La ville énergivore Les villes ne peuvent fonctionner sans énergie, mais cette dette est souvent oubliée. Tous les jours, la pression d’un bouton permet de convoquer la puissance d’un barrage hydroélectrique ou d’un gise...

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.

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The Pornographic Delicatessen triumphs in the tightest race in Diagram Prize history A look at Montréal’s erotic art scene becomes the second Canadian book to win the annual odd-title crown.

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

TeamUP! NYU and McGill-Queen’s Savor Food Studies in NYC and Montréal Read McGill-Queen’s University Press’s post about Eating the Urban Wild: Food and Foraging in Montréal here.

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:

TeamUP! NYU and McGill-Queen's Savor Food Studies in NYC and Montréal - NYU Press Read McGill-Queen’s University Press’s post about Eating the Urban Wild: Food and Foraging in Montréal here. There is nothing quite as comforting as a pastrami on rye with mustard, a... READ MORE

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.

Reading Around the World: 17 Great Books in Translation From University Presses Want to travel around the world without leaving your house? Just pick up a book that was translated from another language. Whether you are reading a novel originally written in French, a memoir ori…

... 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