In this collection of hilarious essays, Edward Riche stretches his satiric muscles to lambaste just about anything that crosses his field of vision.
Newfoundland writes a heartfelt letter to Canada, offering to console mainland...
Essays
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Author:Riche, EdwardSummary: - Author:Kaplan, Robert D.Summary:
From the assassination that triggered World War I to the ethnic warfare in Serbia, Bosnia, and Croatia, the Balkans have been the crucible of the twentieth century, the place where terrorism and genocide first became tools of policy....
- Author:deJong, AngelaSummary:
A collection of personal travel essays that takes the reader on a roller-coaster ride across Africa as seen through the eyes of a solo female backpacker, Angela deJong. When Angela stepped onto African soil for the first time, alone,...
- Author:Counter, PeterSummary:
"A collection of literary horror essays. Combining cultural criticism and memoir, the book is a fun, accessible, spooky, and affecting reflection on the virtues of fear, frailty, and insignificance."--
- Author:Vanderhaeghe, Guy.Summary:
Canadian literary great Guy Vanderhaeghe's eclectic and wryly insightful collection of nonfiction pieces spans his forty-year writing career. Many editors and publishers over the years have asked Guy Vanderhaeghe for his thoughts...
- Author:Marron, CatieSummary:
To make her new house in Connecticut truly feel like home, Catie Marron decided to create a garden. In this book, Marron chronicles her transformation into a gardener over the course of 18 months.
- Author:Editors of Texas MonthlySummary:
The editors of Texas Monthly explore what it means to be a Texan in this anthology packed with essays, reportage, recipes, and recommendations from their renowned list of contributors. Big hats, big trucks, big oil fortunes—Texas...
- Author:Barry, DaveSummary:
A brilliantly funny exploration of the Sunshine State from the man who knows it best: Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling author Dave Barry. We never know what will happen next in Florida. We know only that, any minute...
- Author:Tanti, MelissaSummary:
The dismantling of “Understanding Canada”—an international program eliminated by Canada’s Conservative government in 2012—posed a tremendous potential setback for Canadianists. Yet Canadian writers continue to be celebrated globally by...
- Author:Fergusson, James, Furtado, FrancisSummary:
For over a decade, Canada’s participation in the war in Afghanistan dominated media headlines, government discussions, academic studies, and the public international security debate. Now that the mission in Afghanistan is over, what...
- Author:Erregue-Sacchi, LucianaSummary:
A collection of 14 creative non-fiction essays that intersect food, geography, politics, heritage, language, and nostalgia allowing new connections to flourish between cuisines, authors, nationalities, and the texts themselves.
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Pop culture stereotypes, shopping frustrations, fat jokes, and misconceptions about health are all ways society systemically rejects large bodies. BIG is a collection of personal and intimate experiences of plus size women, non-binary...
- Author:Olding, SusanSummary:
Big Reader is a collection of essays about memory, identity, loss, and reading from one of Canada's finest essayists. Through every life experience -- from the dissolution of her marriage to the forging of a tentative relationship...
- Author:Ratzlaff, LloydSummary:
In a series of reflections focused on his uneducated yet hard-working Mennonite family and touching on childhood exploits from shoplifting and go-kart racing to the juvenile fear of dying (which spontaneously arises during the rehearsal...
- Author:Scott, Gail, Gluck, Robert, Roy, Camille, Burger, MarySummary:
What is the best way to tell a story? In this anthology, the first-ever collection of essays by innovative, cutting-edge writers on the theme of narration, forty of the continent's top experimental writers describe their engagement with...
- Author:Péan, StanleySummary:
In Black and Blue, author and radio personality Stanley Péan guides us through a history of jazz, stopping at a number of high points along the way. He takes us behind the scenes with anecdotes that tell much about the...
- Author:Ladouceur, Barbara, Spence, PhyllisSummary:
In this bestseller, thirty-six Canadian war brides recount their early lives, their involvement in wartime duties, the magical/funny moments when they met their Canadian husbands-to-be and their journeys from Britain to Canada. The...
- Author:Philip, M. NourbeSeSummary:
Bla_K is a collection of previously out-of-print essays and new works by one of Canada's most important writers and thinkers. Through an engagement with her earlier work, M. NourbeSe Philip comes to realize the existence of a repetition...
- Author:Philip, M. NourbeSeSummary:
Blank is a collection of previously out-of-print essays and new works by one of Canada's most important contemporary writers and thinkers.Through an engagement with her earlier work, M. NourbeSe Philip comes to realize the existence of...
- Author:MacKinnon, RobertSummary:
This eclectic collection of stories shares with readers many other aspects of Robert's professional and personal experience. He tells a chilling story of being the first RCMP officer at the crash site of Air Canada Flight 621 in 1970,...
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