The series consists of correspondence, manuscripts, notes, and records related to works of literary criticism and history authored and edited by New. Publications include Among Worlds: An Introduction to Modern Commonwealth and South African Fiction (1975), Margaret Laurence: The Writer and Her Critics (1977,) Malcom Lowry (1971), A Political Art: Essays and Images in Honour of George Woodcock (1978), Dreams of Speech and Violence: The Art of Short Story in Canada and New Zealand (1987), A History of Canadian Literature (1989), Literary History of Canada: Canadian Literature in English (1990), Inside the Poem (1992), Land Sliding: Imagining Space, Presence & Power in Canadian Writing (1997), Borderlands: How We Talk About Canada (1998), Reading Mansfield and Metaphors of Form (1999), Annual Review of Canadian Writing, Articulating West: Essays on Purpose and Form in Modern Canadian Literature (1972), Grandchild of the Empire: About Irony, Mainly in the Commonwealth (2003), and From a Speaking Place: Writings from the first 50 years of Canadian Literature (2009).