"Any publication by Northrop Frye is an important literary event; this one is of the highest importance to Canadian literature." — Globe and MailOriginally published by Anansi in 1971, The Bush Garden
In this brilliant debut novel by Helen Weinzweig, the award-winning author of Basic Black With Pearls, a wedding reception becomes a gothic dream in which the bride, groom, family, and guests struggle
First published in 1968 by House of Anansi Press, the Manual for Draft-Age Immigrants to Canada was a handbook for Americans who refused to serve as draftees in the Vietnam War and were considering im
The island is shy and exuberant, savage and fair, bold yet self-effacing. It is a woman in heat, a man in despair, a blonde horse at sunset, a riot of fig trees, a flaking white salt bed, an arid gard
In this exceptional collection of original essays, twenty-five celebrated writers share one of their most intimate and life-changing experiences: giving birth. Moving, uniquely honest, and transformat
Originally published in 1982, Second Words brings together fifty of Margaret Atwood’s finest essays and reviews from 1962 to 1980, with an introduction and commentary by the author. With her incompara
