Biography, Literature and Literary studies

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Memory Serves

Trade Non-Fiction Book of the Year winner at the Alberta Book Publishing Awards, Memory Serves gathers the oratories that award-winning author Lee Maracle has delivered and performed over a 20-year period. ...

L.M. Montgomery's Rainbow Valleys

Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942) and Anne of Green Gables will always be associated with Prince Edward Island, Montgomery’s childhood home and the setting of her most famous novels. Yet, after marrying ...

Sheila Watson

Sheila Watson published the iconic novel, The Double Hook, in 1959 and influenced the writing styles of many Canadian authors, including Robert Kroetsch, Michael Ondaatje, George Bowering, and Daphne ...

Matterhorn

By (author) Virginia May
Categories: Biography: general

Memories of day-to-day life in an exquisitely beautiful but isolated mountain community, working sixteen hours a day.

The author, Virginia May, grew up in post-WWII England, raised by a single mother. ...

The Last Wife

By (author) Kate Hennig
Categories: Plays, playscripts

A contemporary retelling of the compelling relationship between Katherine Parr and Henry VIII, The Last Wife is a funny, powerful examination of patriarchy, sexual politics, and women’s rights. To learn ...

Daniel David Moses

This work is a compelling examination and discussion of the work of Daniel David Moses. Including pieces by Indigenous and non-Indigenous authors, storytellers, playwrights, academics and artists, participating ...

Magazines, Travel, and Middlebrow Culture

A century ago, the golden age of magazine publishing coincided with the beginning of a golden age of travel. Magazines, Travel, and Middlebrow Culture centres on Canada, where commercial magazines began ...

“My Own Portrait in Writing”

By (author) Patrick Grant
Categories: Literary theory
Series: Cultural Dialectics

A theoretically informed interpretation of Van Gogh’s literary achievement that is without precedent.

Many have drawn on Van Gogh’s voluminous correspondence for insights into his art and personal ...

The Road In Is Not the Same Road Out

By (author) Karen Solie
Categories: Poetry

In her fourth collection, and the first since the Griffin Poetry Prize–winning Pigeon, Karen Solie advances her extraordinary poetics of impetus and second thoughts. Ferrying the intimate self through ...

Exiled for Love

By (author) Arsham Parsi & Marc Colbourne
Categories: Biography: general

A fast-paced memoir of Arsham Parsi, a queer Iranian activist forced to flee his country under threat of execution.

Exiled for Love follows Parsi’s incredible journey from his first understanding of ...