Since the election of Mayor David Miller in November 2003, Toronto has experienced a wave of civic pride and enthusiasm not felt in decades. At long last, Torontonians see their city as a place of pos
This remarkable autobiographical play by the award-winning author of Building Jerusalem and Martin Sloane, is a Russian-doll-like play: concentric stories enveloping each other. A writer is told, in c
The laundromat is across the street from the narrator's apartment. The narrator, also nameless, is looking at it through his window but can't seem to get there to pick up his clothes. The narrative th
Drained by a half-dozen major watersheds, cut by a network of deep ravines and fronting on a Great Lake, Toronto is dominated by water. Recently, the trend of fettering Toronto's water and putting it
Dr. Thoughtless Actions, a young geneticist, awakes one morning to find a cardboard box secured to his head. He finds all his thoughts come from God, all his words come from the devil, and his desire
A herd of horses frozen in a river. A bargain bridge. Seances. Golden Boy pageants. A demolished hockey arena. St. Mary's Academy for Girls. Spanky the Guide Dog through Time. An epidemic of sleepwalk
Invited to a quiet Swiss chateau by the enigmatic Tatiana Beaujeu Lehmann, Anne begins to slowly write a novel in a language that is not hers, a language that makes meaning foreign and keeps her aler
Nine-year-old Phineas William Walsh has an encyclopedic, obsessive knowledge of the natural world. He knows that rockfish have swim bladders that can burst and push their intestines out their butts, a
John M. Lyle (1872?1945) was an anomaly among architects: a Beaux-Arts classicist who nevertheless found much inspiration in modernism, allowing his own traditionalist practice to be affected in form
If a city is its people, and its people are what they eat, then shouldn’t food play a larger role in our dialogue about how and where we live? The food of a metropolis is essential to its character. N
Descartes asked, How can I know that I am not now dreaming? The Certainty Dream poses similar questions through poetry. As the dream world and the waking world blur, the body and the dimensions it inh
The word ?eunoia,’ which literally means ?beautiful thinking,’ is the shortest word in English that contains all five vowels. Directly inspired by the Oulipo (l’Ouvroir de Litterature Potentielle), a
The Portuguese word saudade has no direct English translation. In its simplest sense, it describes a feeling of longing for something that is now gone, and may yet return, but in all likelihood can ne
A New York Times Notable Book of 2010Longlisted for the Warwick Writing PrizeVerses, essays, confessions, reports, translations, drafts, treatises, laments and utopias, 1995?2007. Collected by Elisa S
New Theatre represents a lively foray into spaces geographical and utopian that investigate the process of meaning. Coolly cerebral poems about Vladimir Ilyich Lenin's later life muse on power and ide
"Ingenious, acidic comedy." —The Globe and Mail on The Pochsy Plays Penelope Douglas is an ex–forensic psychiatrist looking for a fresh start in a western boomtown grown three sizes too crazy. But the
For over thirty years, Patrick Cummins has been wandering the streets of Toronto, taking mugshots of its houses, variety stores, garages, and ever-changing storefronts. Straightforward shots chronicle
It all started with a black rose and a rich young man. And a house with a creek running through it. And then there she was, Kip Flynn, standing beside her boyfriend's dead body and agreeing to take a
"McGimpsey displays erudition, clever insights and a knack for the wickedly funny wisecrack." ? The Washington PostMelding the deeply personal and the culturally popular, Li'l Bastard is confessional
Science is a useful metaphor for understanding our lives, but it is often shown to be as fallible as the flawed humans who lean on it. This lively, thoughtful, and refreshingly speculative debut colle
