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Wisdom in Nonsense

With generosity and wry humour, novelist Heather O’Neill recalls several key lessons she learned in childhood from her father: memories and stories about how crime does pay, why one should never keep ...

BDQ

Édité par Andy Brown
Traduit par Helge Dascher
Catégories: Essais littéraires

The comics community in Quebec has long been heralded as unique, blending the clear-lined aesthetic of Europe with the underground influences of North America - think Tintin meets R. Crumb. However, most ...

Coming Here, Being Here

Édité par Don Mulcahy
Catégories: Anthologies
Séries: Essential Anthologies Series

“Here is a shifting of borders, a redrawing of maps, a constant making and remaking of worlds in the one dwelling we have in common: language. ”Tamas Dobozy, winner of the Rogers Writers’ Trust ...

Nino Ricci

Édité par Marino Tuzi
Catégories: Études littéraires
Séries: Essential Writers Series

This book of essays examines the fictional work of Nino Ricci from a variety of critical perspectives. These perspectives include ideas about literature, culture, identity, politics, and society in terms ...

Clark Blaise

This volume represents the first full-scale appreciation of Clark Blaise’s writing in more than 25 years—and the first comprehensive study of his now more than 20 books. Included are previously published ...

Bobos

Par (auteur) Hugo Léger
Illustré par Sébastien Thibault
Catégories: Essais littéraires
Séries: Style libre

« Hugo Léger voulait “toucher à l’universel du mal”, dit-il, et déjouer aussi les plaignards. Ça ne fait même pas mal de dire qu’il a réussi. “Si ce livre fait sourire les gens qui souffrent ...

Dreaming of Elsewhere

Par (auteur) Esi Edugyan
Catégories: Essais littéraires
Séries: CLC Kreisel Lecture Series

Home, for me, was not a birthright, but an invention. It seems to me when we speak of home we are speaking of several things, often at once, muddled together into an uneasy stew. We say home and mean ...

Métaspora

Par (auteur) Joël Des Rosiers
Catégories: Essais littéraires

Joël Des Rosiers est poète, essayiste et psychiatre. Il a publié plusieurs livres chez Triptyque, dont Théories caraïbes (1997, rééd. en 2009), Vétiver (1999, Grand Prix du Festival international ...

Nilling

Par (auteur) Lisa Robertson
Catégories: Études littéraires

"I have tried to make a sketch or a model in several dimensions of the potency of Arendt’s idea of invisibility, the necessary inconspicuousness of thinking and reading, and the ambivalently joyous ...

Intersecting Sets

Poet Alice Major was given a book on relativity at the impressionable age of ten, so she never quite understood why science came to be dismissed as reductive or opposite to art. She surveys the sciences ...