Twenty-seven writers in Canada were asked to contribute pieces of original work describing how they see writing today. From Atwood's opening, through writing from Indigenous writers, the reader is given a sense of how twenty-seven of...
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Twenty-six writers in Canada were asked to contribute pieces of original work describing how they see writing today. From Atwood's opening, through writing from Indigenous writers, the reader is given a sense of how twenty-seven of...
- Author:Melville, StephenSummary:
This volume examines the force of art history's attraction to particular objects and the corresponding rhythms of attachment and detachment that animate the discipline.
- Author:Sayed, AsmaSummary:
This collection was born of a conviction that Vassanji's contributions to the global literary scene merit more in-depth scholarly notice. The articles herein, most of which are comparative in focus, provide various interpretations of...
- Author:MacMillan, Ernest, Morey, CarlSummary:
In addition to his activities as conductor, administrator, educator, composer, and organist, Sir Ernest MacMillan (1893-1973) found time to write more than one hundred essays and lectures on music. Always ready to use his enormous...
- Author:Coates, ColinSummary:
On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of Queen Elizabeth’s accession to the throne, the Centre of Canadian Studies of the University of Edinburgh hosted its annual conference on the theme "Majesty in Canada". The essays...
- Author:Berg, ElizabethSummary:
This is a collection of Elizabeth Berg's most-loved Facebook posts. She was asked by many to put these short essays into book form, to create, as one reader said, something to "take to the beach, or bed, or on an airplane." Elizabeth...
- Author:Driver, MinnieSummary:
A charming, poignant, and mesmerizing memoir in essays from actor and natural-born storyteller Minnie Driver, chronicling the way life works out even when it doesn't.
- Author:Armstrong, JoleneSummary:
Born near Park Valley, Saskatchewan, on Crown land, often referred to by locals as a road allowance community, Maria Campbell is the oldest of 8 children. Much of her early years are revealed in Halfbreed, the book which would...
- Author:Hooft, Gerard T.Summary:
Human curiosity has led us to explore our solar system, landing on the moon and sending spacecraft to study distant planetary objects. The next step in our great adventure is putting humans on Mars, but what will it really take to...
- Author:Sedaris, DavidSummary:
Creative nonfiction writer David Sedaris presents a humorous, yet touching collection of personal essays. As featured in The New Yorker and Esquire as well as read aloud on National Public Radio, this collection relates to listeners...
- Author:Kingwell, MarkSummary:
Mark Kingwell is as at home discussing 'Battlestar Galactica' as he is civility, can find the Plato in popular culture, and sees in idleness a deeply revolutionary gesture. In 'Measure Yourself Against the Earth', he brings his heady...
- Author:League of Canadian PoetsSummary:
A society without poetry and the other arts would have broken its mirror and cut out its heart.--"Margaret Atwood. So boldly insists one of our greatest writers in Measures of Astonishment, a refreshing and eclectic mix of both deeply...
- Author:Irby, SamanthaSummary:
Samantha Irby explodes onto the printed page with her debut collection of brand-new essays about trying to laugh her way through failed relationships, being black, taco feasts, bouts with Crohn's disease, and more. Every essay is...
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The North is changing at an unprecedented rate as industrial development and the climate crisis disrupt not only the environment but also long-standing relationships to the land and traditional means of livelihood. Memory and Landscape...
- Author:Des Rosiers, JoëlSummary:
Métaspora essai sur les patries intimes J’appelle métaspora la perversion digitale de la nostalgie. En plus d’être une expérience du don et de l’émotion, la métaspora est aussi une catégorie esthétique, un emblème du Beau. La métaspora...
- Author:Fagell, Phyllis L.Summary:
A counselor and popular Washington Post contributor offers a new take on grades six through eight as a distinct developmental phase, and the perfect time to set up kids to thrive.
- Author:Malek, Ghadeer, Moussa, GhaidaSummary:
Min Fami: Arab Feminist Reflections on Identity, Space, and Resistance is an anthology that cradles the thoughts of Arab feminists, articulated through personal critical narratives, academic essays, poetry, short stories, and...
- Author:Jacobsen, MikkaSummary:
Modern Fables is a darkly funny, feminist collection of essays about love and place. In this darkly funny book about love in the digital age, Mikka Jacobsen challenges the notion that a single woman in her thirties writing about love is...
- Author:von Sothen, JohnSummary:
A hilarious, candid account of what life in France is actually like, from a writer for Vanity Fair and GQ Americans love to love Paris. We buy books about how the French parent, why French women don't get fat, and how to be...
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