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Memoirs of a Media Maverick

By (author) Boyce Richardson
Categories: Biography: general

Memoirs of a Media Maverick is an insider’s critical account of the modern media. Richardson tells the intriguing story of his travels as a journalist and filmmaker in New Zealand, Australia, India, ...

HA!

By (author) Gordon Sheppard
Categories: Biography: writers

On 15 March 1977, with his wife’s consent, celebrated writer and former terrorist Hubert Aquin blew his brains out on the grounds of a Montreal convent school. Shocked by this self-murder, a filmmaker ...

The Scent of Eucalyptus

The fair-haired child of Canadian missionary parents, Daniel Coleman grew up with an ambivalent relationship to the country of his birth. He was clearly different from his Ethiopian playmates, but because ...

After Ted & Sylvia

By (author) Crystal Hurdle
Categories: Biography: writers

One of the greatest mad, sad literary love affairs of the twentieth century was that between poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. In her collection of poems, Hurdle adapts her own research on their lives ...

How Theatre Educates

Canada boasts a remarkable number of talented theatre artists, scholars, and educators. How Theatre Educates brings together essays and other contributions from members of these diverse communities to ...

Pink Snow

Drawing on recent developments in gay studies and queer theory, Pink Snow: Homotextual Possibilities in Canadian Fiction offers new interpretations that focus on homoerotic resonances in literature. Goldie ...

At The Mercy Seat

By (author) Susan McCaslin
Categories: Poetry

At the Mercy Seat explores the relentlessness of mercy as it permeates the natural world and also our relationships, openning them to mystery. Whether the poems reclaim biblical stories or the voices ...

Strike the Wok

Edited by Lien Chao & Jim Wong-Chu
Categories: Anthologies: general

A young man contemplates piano lessons and hockey; two misfits in Chinatown discover love; a Vancouver woman fondly recalls her parent’s old house in Newfoundland; a girl goes to Canada to escape her ...

Colonel Richardson’s Airedales

By (author) Bryan D. Cummins
Categories: Dogs as pets

This is the story of one man’s struggle to develop the British War Dog School. Richardson began experimenting with military and police dogs in 1898, and in 1910 began petitioning for a British military ...