The Seaboard Review of Books, November 26, 2025
Volume 2, Issue 53 of The Seaboard Review of Books, November 26, 2025
In this issue:
Double Vision, a Chapbook by John Oughton and Nina West (Poetry, Prose, Art)
Becoming an Ally (4th edition) by Anne Bishop (Non-Fiction)
Kunuuksayuukka: The Spirit of Winter Storms by Rose Nirliq Iriarruk Tuuqlaq Kirby
Renewal: Indigenous Perspectives on Land-Based Education In and Beyond the Classroom, Edited by Katya Adamov Ferguson, Christine M’Lot
Coming Monday, December 1st: a special “Best Books of 2025” issue!
Thanks for reading this issue of The Seaboard Review of Books!
James M. Fisher, editor-in-chief
Chapbook
Double Vision, a Chapbook by John Oughton and Nina West
An early product of the printed word, chapbooks are inexpensive, easy to produce, cover a wide range of topics (though usually poetry), are small in thickness, and are collectible because of their limited production.
Non-Fiction
Becoming an Ally (4th edition) by Anne Bishop
In Becoming an Ally: Breaking the Cycle of Oppression (4th Edition), Anne Bishop revisits a theme that has been important to her for decades. Bishop wrote the first edition of Becoming an Ally in 1994, after teaching about structural oppression for almost ten years. While progress has been made since that first edition, the themes covered are “still rel…
Kunuuksayuukka: The Spirit of Winter Storms by Rose Nirliq Iriarruk Tuuqlaq Kirby
Kunuuksayuukka, by Rose Kirby, is the most recent in a series of autobiographies by Canadian Inuit women, and it is consistent with the pattern established fairly early on of confining itself to what one Inuk called “the learning years.” It describes the author’s childhood but gives few details of her adult life. Of 783 works published by Inuit prior to…
Renewal: Indigenous Perspectives on Land-Based Education In and Beyond the Classroom, Edited by Katya Adamov Ferguson, Christine M'Lot
Renewal: Indigenous Perspectives on Land-Based Education In and Beyond the Classroom, the second book in the Footbridge series, is edited by Christine M’Lot (Anishnaabe educator and curriculum developer) and Katya Adamov Ferguson (Settler educator and artist), with the support of Land-based education consultant and reviewer Dr. Brian Rice (Kanienké:haka…
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Contributor News
Lisa Timpf’s interview with Su J. Sokol appeared in Interstellar Flight Magazine on November 14. The interview provides additional depth about Sokol’s novels Invisible Line and Five Points on an Invisible Line, as well as some thoughts on hopepunk. Link below: https://magazine.interstellarflightpress.com/hopepunk-activism-and-community-3dff91433803
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