BRUCE BOWDEN ’68 (Trinity Fellow Emeritus) and Nigel Dickson
Ontario’s Port Hope: A Cultural Story intertwines architectural, historical, and cultural perspectives to explore the development of Port Hope and its early landmark, the Bluestone. Featuring more than 100 photographs, the book examines how builders, geography, and evolving influences shaped the community’s distinctive identity within early Ontario’s cultural landscape. (Furby House Books)
ANDREW FUYARCHUK (DTh 2017)
The Linguistic Quandary of Environmental Hermeneutics: Applications from Heidegger, Li Zehou, Gadamer and Zhuangzi examines the limits of Heidegger’s view of animals and environment and expands environmental hermeneutics through Li Zehou’s anthropological ontology and the Daoism of Zhuangzi. Fuyarchuk develops a “one world” approach to being-in-nature by drawing on three Gadamerian dispositions: empathetic bodily affinity, receptivity to ambient environments, and imitation as a way of knowing. (Bloomsbury Academic)
JOHN IBBITSON ’79
Ibbitson and co-author Darrell Bricker examine the forces driving Canada toward instability in Breaking Point: The New Big Shifts Putting Canada at Risk. From regional divisions and housing pressures to questions of leadership and national identity, the book delivers a provocative assessment of a country in flux — and what it will take to restore balance. (McClelland & Stewart)
RANDALL MARTIN ’81
In Shakespeare, St Paul, and Dramatic Emancipation, Randall Martin explores how Shakespeare reimagined Pauline ideas of transformation and freedom across his plays — from Henry VI to The Tempest. Through fresh readings grounded in disability, gender, race, and ecocritical theory, Martin reveals how Shakespeare’s characters and dramaturgy engage with the struggle for emancipation in body, mind, and spirit. (Oxford University Press)
SARAH MUGHAL RANA ’23
In Dawn of the Firebird, Sarah Mughal Rana introduces Khamilla Zahr-zad, the last surviving heir of an overthrown imperial clan who must hide her identity and master the celestial magic of nur inside a rival empire’s elite army school. Training among mystic monks and jinn-touched soldiers, she enters brutal contests where failure means death — and success reveals unsettling truths about her father’s teachings. With kingdoms on the brink of war and a twisted new magic sweeping the land, Khamilla must confront an impossible choice: pursue vengeance or fight for a different kind of salvation. (Harper Voyager)
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