Ursula K. Le Guin on the absurdity of denying your age: "If I'm ninety and believe I'm forty-five, I'm headed for a very bad time trying to get out of the bathtub."On cultural perceptions of fantasy: "The...
Essays
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Author:Guin, Ursula K. Le.Summary: - Author:Donahue, Anne T.Summary:
'The internet's best friend.' ' Flare From the author of the popular newsletter That's What She Said, 'Nobody Cares is a frank, funny personal essay collection about work, failure, friendship, and the messy...
- Author:McCardell, MikeSummary:
Vancouver news icon and co-host of CTV's "The Last Word," Mike McCardell is the crafter of human-interest stories that counteract the doom and gloom of conventional news programming. With his unerring instinct for teasing...
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In this carefully curated collection of essays, editors Jamie Dopp and Angie Abdou go beyond their first collection, Writing the Body in Motion, to engage with the meaning of sport found in Canadian sport literature. How does "...
- Author:Wunker, ErinSummary:
Erin Wunker is a feminist killjoy, and she thinks you should be one, too. Following in the tradition of Sara Ahmed (the originator of the concept "feminist killjoy"), Wunker brings memoir, theory, literary criticism, pop culture, and...
- Author:Wunker, ErinSummary:
Erin Wunker is a feminist killjoy, and she thinks you should be one, too. Following in the tradition of Sara Ahmed (the originator of the concept of the "feminist killjoy"), Wunker brings memoir, theory, literary criticism, pop culture...
- Author:Mehta, Brinda J.Summary:
Notions of Identity, Diaspora, and Gender in Caribbean Women's Writing uses a unique four-dimensional lens to frame questions of diaspora and gender in the writings of women from Martinique, Guadeloupe, and Haiti. These divergent and...
- Author:Hyndman, JamesSummary:
... y a plus de fin tu comprends, y peut pas y avoir de fin à ça, c'est le même disque rayé, la même vieille ritournelle, encore et encore, et chacun enfonce son clou, chacun espère l'aveu, la reconnaissance par l'...
- Author:Curtis, WayneSummary:
“One could do worse than to grow up on a river.” In his new collection of essays, Wayne Curtis voyages back through the tributaries of his past, throwing a pastoral net over the backwaters of his childhood to ensnare the sepia-tinged...
- Author:Khan, SheemaSummary:
In these essays, Sheema Khan - Canadian hockey mom and Harvard PhD - gives us her insights on being a modern and liberal, yet practising, Muslim, especially in Canada. Tackling a host of issues, such as terrorism and fanaticism, human...
- Author:St. Pierre, PaulSummary:
St. Pierre writes in favour of war, lying, a Canadian monarchy, teenaged sex, Henry Ford, and against righteous men, ecologists and sanitized language. His observations spring from his experiences as a newspaper editor and columnist,...
- Author:Keane, DavidSummary:
In ten original studies, former students and colleagues of Maurice Careless, one of Canada’s most distinguished historians, explore both traditional and hitherto neglected topics in the development of nineteenth-century Ontario. Their...
- Author:Guriel, JasonSummary:
A defense of the dying art of losing an afternoon--and gaining new appreciation--amidst the bins and shelves of brick-and-mortar shops. Written during the pandemic, when the world was marooned at home and consigned to scrolling screens...
- Author:Tempest, Kae.Summary:
Beneath the surface we are all connected . . . This is a meditation on the power of creative connection. Drawing on twenty years' experience as a writer and performer, Kae Tempest explores how and why creativity - however we choose...
- Author:Jean, BarmanSummary:
“The ways in which we can redress the past are many and varied,” writes Jean Barman, “and it is up to each of us to act as best we can.” The seventeen essays collected here, originally published between 1996 and 2013, make a valuable...
- Author:Smardz Frost, Karolyn, Walls, Bryan, Bates Neary, Hilary, Armstrong, Frederick H.Summary:
Ontario’s African-Canadian Heritage is composed of the collected works of Professor Fred Landon, who for more than 60 years wrote about African-Canadian history. The selected articles have, for the most part, never been surpassed by...
- Author:Bashevkin, SylviaSummary:
From the days of the fur trade through the contemporary period, women have played important roles in the public life of Canada. Until the 1970s, however, these contributions were generally overlooked. This book focuses on two questions...
- Author:Knox, JackSummary:
A hilarious collection of Jack Knox's best-loved humour columns.In this side-splitting follow-up to the bestseller Hard Knox: Musings from the Edge of Canada, Jack Knox presents his best writing, marking his twenty-year anniversary as a...
- Author:DeRango-Adem, Adebe, Thompson, AndreaSummary:
Other Tongues: Mixed-Race Women Speak Out is an anthology of poetry, spoken word, fiction, creative non-fiction, spoken word texts, as well as black and white artwork and photography, explores the question of how mixed-race...
- Author:Highland, CarolynSummary:
Carolyn Highland’s outdoor writing will drive readers and outdoor enthusiasts to “get outside” and experience all that the natural world has to offer.Out Hereis a collection of essays that explores what the wilderness has to teach us...
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