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 girl faints in the Toronto subway. Her friends are taken to the hospital with unexplained rashes; they complain about a funny smell in the subway Swarms of police arrive, and then the hazmat team. P
Thinking that the solutions to our environmental woes have to start in our own backyards, the editors of uTOpia: Towards a New Toronto and The State of the Arts: Living with Culture in Toronto asked t
2007 Winner of the Pat Lowther Award and a Lambda Literary AwardAs meditative practices focus on the axis of breath, these poems focus on the moment of action, of thought, on the flux of speech.This i
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
Twelve six-year-olds and their three adult chaperones head into the woods on a camping trip. None of them make it out alive.The Laws of the Skies follows the terrified children as they scatter into th
If you tore off the tops of canola yellow canola flowers would youjump in a tub of canola margarinejust to make the best of despair?Implored by concerned readers to be classy’ and real’ for once, Davi
This is a text obsessed with ruins: the ruins of genre, of language, of the city, of the body. The history of the twentieth century is a history of barbarism, and Stephens walks, like a flaneur, throu
Isabel Norris has never left the ice. Her father was a hockey legend who died before she was born, and her grandparents raised her in his skates.When Iz leaves her grandmother behind to play for the W
Why, it's a whale of a book! Here comes Moby Jane - again! Originally published in 1987 and long out of print, Moby Jane contains ten years' worth of Gilbert, poem by poem, that literally spill out ov
Published in 1994, Crystallography was a gem of a book, an instant hit that was nominated for the Gerald Lampert Award. It has been unavailable for an ice age, and Coach House Books is proud to bring
Natalee Caple made quite a splash with her first two books, The Heart is its Own Reason, a short-story collection from Insomniac Press, and The Plight of Happy People in an Ordinary World, a novel fro
J. Robert Oppenheimer: reluctant father of the atomic bomb, enthusiastic lover of books, devoted husband and philanderer. Engaging with the books he voraciously read, and especially the Bhagavad Gita,
When Jim Hawkins finds the map to a legendary treasure, he embarks on a perilous voyage to claim it. His journey leads him to uncover a pirate mutiny, a chance meeting with a marooned misfit, and, ult
