Best Canadian Essays 2025

edited by Emily Urquhart

Geographies of the Heart

Stories from Newcomers to Canada

foreword by Ava Homa
edited by Raymonde Tickner, Amea Wilbur, Zahida Rahemtulla & Kerry Johnson

The Science of Human Possibilities

by (author) V. Kumar Murty

Truth Telling

Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada

by (author) Michelle Good

Nowhere, Exactly

On Identity and Belonging

by (author) M.G. Vassanji

Wrong Is Not My Name

Notes on (Black) Art

by (author) Erica N. Cardwell

Some of My Best Friends

And other white lies I've been told

by (author) Tajja Isen

Dinner on Monster Island

Essays

by (author) Tania De Rozario

History and Renewal of Labrador's Inuit-Métis

edited by John C. Kennedy

Best Canadian Essays 2024

edited by Marcello Di Cintio

How to Restore a Timeline

On Violence and Memory

by (author) Peter Counter

What I Wish I Said

Confessions of a Columnist

by (author) Jaime Watt
introduction by Andre Pratte
epilogue by Michael Cooke
with Breen Wilkinson

Fat Studies in Canada

(Re)Mapping the Field

edited by Allison Taylor, Kelsey Ioannoni & Ramanpreet Bahra

On Class

by (author) Deborah Dundas

Íjè

An Immigrant's Voyage into Prince Edward Island Life

edited by Elizabeth Iwunwa
by (photographer) Gessy Robin Shumbusho
contributions by Ilona Daniel

Place Matters

Critical Topographies in Word and Image

edited by Jonathan Bordo & Blake Fitzpatrick
prologue by W.J.T. Mitchell

Speaking Up

New Voices on War and Peace in Nova Scotia

edited by Maya Eichler, Reina Green & Tracy Moniz

Imminent Domains

Reckoning with the Anthropocene

by (author) Alessandra Naccarato

Some of My Best Friends

Essays on Lip Service

by (author) Tajja Isen

Tongues

On Longing and Belonging through Language

edited by Ayelet Tsabari, Eufemia Fantetti & Leonarda Carranza

The Environmentalist's Dilemma

Promise and Peril in an Age of Climate Crisis

by (author) Arno Kopecky

Chromatic

Ten Meditations on Crisis in Art and Letters

by (author) Purang Abolmaesumi, Jennifer Black, Lara Boyd, Carrie Jenkins, Hoi Kong, M.V. Ramana, Steven Reynolds, Michelle Stack, Sheila Teves & Y-Dang Troeung

Screen Captures

Film in the Age of Emergency

by (author) Stephen Lee Naish

Land of Many Shores

Perspectives from a Diverse Newfoundland and Labrador

edited by Ainsley Hawthorn