Depuis des millénaires, nos rapports au monde et aux autres sont déterminés par les histoires que nous échangeons, celles que nous nous transmettons d'une génération à l'autre, celles que nous oublions, refoulons ou nions, celles...
Essays
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Author:Brunet-Dragon, SarahSummary: - Author:Lilley, Sasha, McNally, David, Yuen, Eddie, Davis, JamesSummary:
Our world is reeling from dire economic crises and ecological disasters. Visions of the apocalypse and impending doom abound. Governments warn that no alternative exists to taking the bitter medicine they prescribe. Catastrophism...
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This book is published in conjunction with the first retrospective of artist Christi Belcourt's work: "UPRISING: The Power of Mother Earth--Christi Belcourt--A Retrospective with Isaac Murdoch," curated by Nadia Kurd. The book traces...
- Author:Eco, UmbertoSummary:
A posthumous collection of essays about the modern world from one of Europe's greatest, and best-selling, literary figures Umberto Eco was an international cultural superstar. In this, his last collection, the celebrated essayist...
- Author:Rankine, ClaudiaSummary:
Claudia Rankine's bold new book recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media. Some of these encounters are slights, seeming slips of the tongue, and some are...
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The town hall or city hall as a place of local governance is historically related to the founding of cities in medieval Europe. As the space of representative civic authority it aimed to set the terms of public space and engagement with...
- Author:Struthers, J.R. (Tim)Summary:
This volume represents the first full-scale appreciation of Clark Blaise's writing in more than 25 years -- and the first comprehensive study of his now more than 20 books. Included are previously published essays by, among others,...
- Author:Hatch, Ron, Hatch, VeronicaSummary:
A comprehensive account of Clayoquot Sound and the protest movement: rainforest ecosystems; the April 1993 land-use decision; co-opted forestry science; the Peace Camp and the Blockades; civil disobedience; the police, the courts and...
- Author:Swanson, KerrySummary:
This collection of essays provides a historical and contemporary context for Indigenous new media arts practice in Canada. The writers are established artists, scholars, and curators who cover thematic concepts and underlying approaches...
- Author:Swanson, KerrySummary:
This collection of essays provides a historical and contemporary context for Indigenous new media arts practice in Canada. The writers are established artists, scholars, and curators who cover thematic concepts and underlying approaches...
- Author:Frutkin, MarkSummary:
In the tradition of Kafka’s Parables and Paradoxes and The Book of Embraces by Eduardo Galeano, this collection of short essays and “alternative versions” is a vivid, perhaps even shocking, reminder that language, self and reality are...
- Author:Mulcahy, Don, D'Alfonso, AntonioSummary:
The stories of immigration will never, ever be complete. The shared sagas of people coming here is sure to continue for as long as more are needed to populate this intriguing, gargantuan geographic space, that has become the final home...
- Author:Schellenberg, Susan, Barnes, RosemarySummary:
In Committed to the Sane Asylum: Narratives on Mental Wellness and Healing, artist Susan Schellenberg, a former psychiatric patient, and psychologist Rosemary Barnes relate their own stories, conversations, and reflections concerning...
- Author:Kingsnorth, PaulSummary:
Paul Kingsnorth was once an ardent environmentalist. But over time, he gave up on the hope that humans will ever make the sacrifices needed to avert the consequences of climate change. Instead, he argues for UnCivilization, a renewed...
- Author:Ross, StuartSummary:
Best Books of 2005, Ottawa Xpress Writer's Trust of Canada's "Warm Weather Reads Recommended by Writers" list (recommended by Robert Hough).
Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer is equal parts literary memoir, advice for the...
- Author:Rosenfarb, Chava, Morgentaler, GoldieSummary:
Chava Rosenfarb (1923-2011) was one of the most prominent Yiddish novelists of the second half of the twentieth century. Born in Poland in 1923, she survived the Lodz ghetto, Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belsen, immigrating to Canada in 1950...
- Author:Thomas, R. EricSummary:
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The beloved author of Here for It returns with a collection of "funny and compulsively readable" ( Vogue ), "hilarious and incisive" ( Time ) essays about what happens after happily ever after...
- Author:Dussart, FrançoiseSummary:
In this timely collection, the authors examine Indigenous peoples' negotiations with different cosmologies in a globalized world. Dussart and Poirier outline a sophisticated theory of change that accounts for the complexity of...
- Author:Lewis, David, High, StevenSummary:
Deindustrialization is not simply an economic process; it is also a social and cultural phenomenon. The rusting detritus of our industrial past-the wrecked halls of factories, abandoned machinery too large to remove, and now-useless...
- Author:Berman, RachelSummary:
Corridor Talk contains contributions from feminist scholars from across Canada from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds. When the anthropologist Paul Rainbow coined the term, ‘corridor talk,’ he used it to refer to...
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