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Pictura

How do you write about an artist who refused to be contained? Roy Kenzie Kiyooka was a Canadian artist and writer who gifted an extensive body of work that unfolded in nearly every dimension of media. ...

Alice Munro Country

This rich volume begins with a very good-humoured memoir by Munro’s renowned Canadian publisher, Douglas Gibson, followed by powerful autobiographical pieces by fiction writers, playwrights, poets, ...

Alice Munro Everlasting

This volume begins with a major new essay by renowned short story critic and theorist Charles E. May, followed by a major new essay by one of Munro’s most long-standing and most perceptive readers, ...

The Black Prairie Archives

Edited by Karina Vernon
Categories: Ethnic studies

The Black Prairie Archives recovers a new regional archive of “Black prairie” literature, and includes writing that ranges from work by 19th century Black fur traders and pioneers, all of it published ...

Leo Tolstoy and the Canadian Doukhobors

By (author) Andrew Donskov
Categories: Anthologies: general

As an idealist, Leo Tolstoy was constantly searching for practical applications to his philosophical ideas. He found a prime example in the religious group of the Doukhobors, whom he personally helped ...

Are You Kidding Me?!

For the first time, bestselling novelist, columnist, and humorist Lesley Crewe’s finest columns are collected. Not merely razor sharp, Crewe’s wit is also ocean wide, taking in everything from the ...

Imagining Anne

The beautiful, personal, original scrapbooks from Anne of Green Gables author L. M. Montgomery are finally available. Reflecting Montgomery’s youth and optimism, these full-colour pages cover the period ...

Love of the Salish Sea Islands

Edited by Mona Fertig
Introduction by Gail Sjuberg
Categories: Poetry

This important anthology of previously unpublished memoirs, essays, and poems gathers together forty skilled and award-winning writers from 26 islands for the first time. A kaleidoscope of short, brilliant ...

Tiny Lights for Travellers

By (author) Naomi K. Lewis
Categories: Memoirs
Series: Wayfarer

When her marriage suddenly ends, and a diary documenting her beloved Opa’s escape from Nazi-occupied Netherlands in the summer of 1942 is discovered, Naomi Lewis decides to retrace his journey to freedom. ...

Before I Was a Critic I Was a Human Being

By (author) Amy Fung
Categories: Literature: history and criticism
Series: Essais Series

Before I Was a Critic I Was a Human Being takes a closer look at Canada’s mythologies of multiculturalism, settler colonialism, and identity through the lens of a national art critic. Following the ...