When first published in 1972, Survival was considered the most startling book ever written about Canadian literature. Since then, it has continued to be read and taught, and it continues to shape the way Canadians look at themselves....
Intellectual life
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Author:Atwood, MargaretSummary: -
Author:Sledge, John S., Edgar, WalterSummary:Southern Bound represents a running conversation on books, writers and literary travel written for the Mobile Press-Register Books page from 1995 to 2011 by John S. Sledge. The collection includes more than 100 of the best pieces culled...
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Author:Gao, JieSummary:The Modern Chinese Folklore Movement coalesced at National Peking University between 1918 and 1926. A group of academics, inspired by Western thought, tried to revitalize the study of folklore to stave off postwar disillusionment with...
- Author:Burroughs, AugustenSummary:
Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her psychiatrist, a dead-ringer for Santa and a lunatic in the bargain. Suddenly, at age twelve, Augusten...
- Author:McNabb, JenniferSummary:
While it’s easy to get caught up - and, rightfully so - in the art of the Renaissance, you cannot have a full, rounded understanding of just how important these centuries were without digging beneath the surface, without investigating...
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Author:Persky, StanSummary:Twenty-five years after the Berlin Wall was pulled down by Berliners fed up with the division of their city, Stan Persky returns to Eastern Europe. In essays informative and insightful, he illuminates what some consider the final act...
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Author:hooks, bellSummary:According to the Washington Post, no one who cares about contemporary African-American cultures can ignore bell hooks' electrifying feminist explorations. Targeting cultural icons as diverse as Madonna and Spike Lee, Outlaw Culture...
- Author:MacDonald, BettySummary:
Onions in the Stew is the favorite book of the Betty Fans worldwide. Why? She described family life on Vashon Island with husband Don and daughters Anne and Joan in an unique way. They moved to Vashon in the fall, which wasnt too bad,...
- Author:Germain, Jean-Claude, Winkler, DonaldSummary:
Jean-Claude Germain’s second volume of Montreal memoirs chronicles his coming of age: his draconian Jesuit education on the fringes of the city’s Red Light District, followed by his liberating discovery of the city’s fevered bohemian...
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Author:Haig-Brown, Roderick L.Summary:Roderick L. Haig-Brown welcomes us onto his lush farm for a year of insights and observations. In this eloquently written account, Haig-Brown, his wife Ann and their four children tour us through each season, and teach us the ways in...
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Author:Abdul-Jabbar, KareemSummary:Kareem Abdul-Jabbar examines some of the leading political and cultural figures of the Harlem Renaissance--including Marcus Garvey,W.E.B. Du Bois, Quincy Jones, Herbie Hancock, Langston Hughes, and many more.
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Author:Walton, JoSummary:Young Girolamo's life is a series of miracles. It's a miracle that he can see demons, plain as day, and that he can cast them out with the force of his will. It's a miracle that he's friends with Pico della Mirandola, the Count of...
- Author:Marchand, Joséphine, Robillard, EdmondSummary:
Inédit jusqu’à ce jour, ce Journal intime apporte un éclairage neuf sur la bourgeoisie québécoise de la fin du XIXe siècle. Ce n’est pas un livre d’histoire, mais le témoignage d’une femme cultivée, franche et déterminée, qui n’a pas...
- Author:Bégin, Monique, Théry, Chantal, Bersianik, Louky, Blais, Marie-Claire, Gagnon, Gabriel, Gagnon, Madeleine, Marcotte, Gilles, Rocher, GuySummary:
En 1938, Jeanne Lapointe est la première jeune laïque diplômée de la toute nouvelle Faculté des lettres de l’Université Laval et la première récipiendaire de la médaille d’or (pour ses études de langue française) décernée par le...
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Author:Abdul-Jabbar, KareemSummary:Listen as jazz critic Stanley Crouch describes the Roaring Twenties and Kareeem discusses how jazz influenced his life.
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A collection of perspectives by and about Indigenous Toronto, past, present, and future. Beneath every major city in North America lies a deep and rich Indigenous history that has been colonized, paved over, and ignored. Few of its...
- Author:Merrett, Robert JamesSummary:
At war for sixty years, eighteenth-century Britain and France experienced demographic, social, and economic exchanges despite their imperial rivalry. Paradoxically, this rivalry spurred their participation in scientific and industrial...
- Author:Angelou, MayaSummary:
Maya Angelou's debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS's American Masters. Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and...
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Author:Abdul-Jabbar, KareemSummary:Kareem Abdul-Jabbar recounts the birth of Harlem, from the boll weevil to the Great Migration, and discusses how Harlem influenced his life.
- Author:Sullivan, J. M.Summary:
The early 1970s marked the beginning of Newfoundland's cultural renaissance. And in 1974, amidst the music, literature, and burgeoning patriotic pride, a young, upstart Reach for the Top team from Canada's newest province had...
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