Recent News

Ian Garner’s new book, Stalingrad Lives: Stories of Combat and Survival, tells the hidden story of how Russia’s greatest wartime epic was created at the front.  Garner brings together a selection of short stories written at and after the battle. They reveal, for the first time in English, the real Russian narrative of Stalingrad … Read More >

McGill-Queen’s is honoured, and delighted to announce that Aki-wayn-zih: A Person as Worthy as the Earth has received the 2022 Governor General’s Literary Award for English-language NonFiction!

Congratulations to Eli Baxter, and all the 2022 Governor General’s Literary Awards winners, & finalists!

A full list of the 2022 GG recipients.

Aki-wayn-zih is a story … Read More >

MQUP is pleased to announce the addition of a new series. The launch for this exciting new venture is being held on 22 November 2022.  Reserve your spot here.

Canadian Essentials

Series editor: Daniel Béland

Provocative thinking and accessible writing are more necessary than ever to illuminate Canadian society and to understand the opportunities and challenges that … Read More >

In honour of Remembrance Day, we’ve created a reading list of recent military history titles.

We are very proud to have published Through Their Eyes, which imagines the experiences of Canadian soldiers during the First World War through graphic artwork and illustration. Tune in to The Sunday Edition this weekend to hear author Robert … Read More >

This October, Dr. Tammy Gaber will be speaking at the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto about her research and new book on Canadian mosques. This is a particularly meaningful venue as the Aga Khan Museum is the only one in North America dedicated to Islamic arts and architecture, and it sits across from the … Read More >

After warm months of summer bliss, September brings the annual back-to-school frenzy for students across the country. In honour of this return to the classroom, we’ve complied a reading list of recently-published books examining higher education in Canada and beyond.  From historical studies to contemporary issues in university governance, these titles remind us to actively … Read More >

We are pleased to officially announce our Fall/Winter 2022-23 catalogue, in both hard-copy and digital form. You can download the PDF and browse the new titles on our website.

Some highlights from the new catalogue include:

Singular Creatures
Robots, Rights, and the Politics of Posthumanism

By Mark Kingwell

Welcome to posthuman life: could non-human consciousness be an evolutionary … Read More >

In Cecilia Morgan’s forthcoming book, Sweet Canadian Girls Abroad, the little-known lives of late-nineteenth-century Canadian actresses take center stage. In this era, many Canadian women left their homes at young ages with hopes of becoming successful in the theatre circuits of the United States, Britain, Australia, and New Zealand. While only a handful of … Read More >

Heirs of an Ambivalent Empire by Scott Berthelette explores how French-Indigenous interactions in the Hudson Bay watershed area led to the rise of the Métis Nation. The recently-published book follows French-Canadian (Canadien) fur traders across the Northwest as they navigated relationships between sovereign Indigenous nations and the French government. Over time, the Canadien’s ties with the French … Read More >

In Autobiography of a Garden, Patterson Webster recounts her twenty-five-year gardening journey on the 750-acre property called Glen Villa in Quebec. The recently-published book explores the meaning of a garden, the ways in which we can learn from the land, and how we might preserve and present its history and the history … Read More >