Welcome to the November 2025 ORB Issue

For those growing a Movember moustache, may the month be fruitful — and may the books we feature nurture more than follicular ambition. In this issue, we review an anthology that examines Palestinian activism and its repression in Canada, a speculative family saga set against the tightening grip of authoritarianism, poetry that carves a path from rupture to resilience, fiction steeped in gothic unease, and a bold "re-vamping" of incubi and succubi through a feminist, anthropological lens. We invite you to join our reviewers in engaging with the latest works by Leila Marshy, Su J. Sokol, Margo LaPierre, Emily A. Weedon and Vanessa F. Penney.