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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, ...

Casting into Mystery

By (author) Robert Reid
By (artist) Wesley W Bates
Categories: Memoirs

In Casting into Mystery, writer Robert Reid and wood engraver Wesley W. Bates—avid anglers, both—put ink to paper in homage to the venerable sport of fly fishing. Through text and image, they recall ...

Disfigured

By (author) Amanda Leduc
Categories: Biography: general
Series: Exploded Views

Fairy tales shape how we see the world, so what happens when you identify more with the Beast than Beauty? | If every disabled character is mocked and mistreated, how does the Beast ever imagine a happily-ever-after? ...

I Am Still Your Negro

By (author) Valerie Mason-John
Categories: Poetry
Series: Robert Kroetsch Series

Spoken-word poet Valerie Mason-John unsettles readers with potent images of ongoing trauma from slavery and colonization. Her narratives range from the beginnings of the African Diaspora to the story ...

Pourin' Down Rain

By (author) Cheryl Foggo
Categories: Biography: general

The 30th anniversary edition of Cheryl Foggo’s landmark work about growing up Black on the Canadian prairies.

Cheryl Foggo came of age during the 1960s in Calgary and struggled against the many ways ...

An Autobiography of the Autobiography of Reading

Internationally acclaimed poet and novelist Dionne Brand reflects on her early reading of colonial literature and how it makes Black being inanimate. She explores her encounters with colonial, imperialist, ...

Passer l'hiver

Ce recueil expose des figures et des moments de passages d’hiver à la fois physiques, intimes, politiques et artistiques. Les poèmes convoquent plusieurs voix qui reprennent et réinventent des histoires ...

Copeaux

Dans cette œuvre théâtrale, l’autrice, lauréate du prix du Gouverneur général en 2019, traite d’une relation amoureuse qui s’effrite et de ce qui en reste : la fin, sans grand éclat, mais ...

Sestrales

Sestrales fait le portrait d’une parole isolée, celle d’une femme vivant dans une forêt. La narratrice tente là de se soustraire aux violences qui la menacent en rétablissant, par le langage, ...