Titled after a military term referring to an unintentional attack on an ally, this collection of poetry and experimental prose borrows from historical sources and Facebook lingo to explore the male ex
When the aging patriarch of a modern family, a powerfully intellectual and political force in his community, suffers from dementia, his family and friends struggle to care for him.François Archambault
Carmen returns home to convince Manon, her sister, to end ten years of mourning the death of their parents, Léopold and Marie-Louise. Past and present intermingle as the two daughters struggle to reco
Two people relive the same moment in unexpected ways and in different genres (from diary to dramatic dialogue, from film script to sound installation). Despite their eloquence, they cannot say how the
This comedy-drama skewers the film world when a veteran playwright must decide between accepting government funds to turn his new play into a Canadian-made feature film with a multi-million dollar con
When Frankie's dad dies, her mom, Ava, can't afford to live in the city anymore. The only asset they're left with is a farmhouse and twenty acres outside of town. Ava decides to move there and start a
Frances escapes her small-town background to attend first-year university in the big city. "You've got to find the great love," her new friend Dagmar tells her, but what makes it love instead of sex?
From one of the most exciting novelists writing in France today comes this literary saga of a dozen men and women ? engineers, designers, machinery operators, cable riggers ? all employees of the inte
In this prequel within a sequel, Diminuenda discovers that she stands to win a vast inheritance from her estranged father, the inimitable Minor, if she travels into the past and ?collects” a number of
Webb's poems bridge numerous conceptual divides: the (porous) boundaries between poetry and painting, poetry and politics, modernism and postmodernism.
A hundred years ago this year, the Japanese steamship Komagata Maru set sail for Canada with 376 Sikh, Muslim, and Hindu migrants traveling from Punjab, India. They were refused entry at Vancouver, ev
Reverend Aaron is found lying unconscious on the trail to a family farm somewhere in southern Utah. His hands have been severed at the wrist. On the body are only a few bibles and sermons. Is he a pre
Inspecting Nostalgia brings together found text and fragments from various writers’ work with scraps from the author’s own journals to articulate a yearning for that which has been lost.R. Kolewe work
An Honest Woman is autobiographical, feminist poetry that offers candid views on sex, love, and marriage from the perspective of a mixed-race woman.Jonina Kirton is a Métis/Icelandic poet whose first
Evie and Cecil, a Cree couple, have never been off the reservation. Now, their grown kids have sent them to a fabulous resort for their thirty-fifth anniversary, and they’re in for sun, sand?and a sur
As in Ibsen’s Enemy of the People, two brothers struggle for power and ideals each believes are right. A timely play in terms of environmental issues, full of lots of great political dirty tricks. Cas
Everything we eat tells a story. In A Taste of Empire, sample the Rellenong Bangus (Stuffed Milkfish). While cooking this traditional Filipino dish in real time, Chef Cortés’s amusing assistant takes
Finding Mr. Wong, true to its title, chronicles the author’s search for Wong Dong Wong as she attempted to piece together his life beyond what she knew of him as a cook and housekeeper and her experie
An exquisite painter, intellectual, social activist and articulate lesbian feminist, Mary Meigs did not begin her writing career until age sixty. While her books are grounded in the particulars of her
