Castaways and Other Writings, 1996–2024. By Diego Bastianutti. Club Giuliano Dalmato di Toronto, 2025, 194 pp. ISBN: 9781069266903 (paperback).

Castaways is an autobiographical collection of Bastianutti's speeches, his academic and personal writings, artworks from his private collection, and family photographs.Rather than presenting a unified argument, the book unfolds as a constellation of texts written between 1996 and 2024, allowing the reader to trace both continuity and transformation in Bastianutti's thinking.Read together, these materials span a period marked by the aftermath of the Cold War, the intensification of global migration, and the growing securitization of borders, situating Castaways within broader debates on exile, displacement, and asylum.This collection engages with scholarly debates and conversations in critical refugee studies, diaspora studies, and displacement metaphors, not by offering a linear or historical arc but rather by foregrounding the refugee experience through narrative, visual art, and personal reflection, therefore broadening the scope of what constitutes the experience of displacement.In this way, the figure of the castaway emerges as both protagonist and central metaphor: a subject suspended in