That both autobiography and biography have acquired a position of unprecedented importance over the past 30 years is now obvious. Less obvious are the reasons for this phenomenon. Theorists and studen
Cottagers and Indians explores the politics and issues surrounding a real-life event still occurring in the Kawartha Lakes region of Central Ontario. An Indigenous man, Arthur Copper, has taken it upo
Two friends pass the time together playing a made-up game in which they name people, places, or things and debate whether they are successful or not; in other words, whether they are winners or losers
Falling through endless days at an office desk, the disillusioned, aptly named Mr. Mann wins tickets to see Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters. By no means a theater-goer, Mann nevertheless attends the pla
This book of poems is a sustained adoration of the beloved which recalls the work of Dante?what the Vita Nuova might have been had Dante lived on the bare watered rock of Newfoundland, rather than in
Bambi and Me consists of 12 autobiographical pieces about how movies shaped the young life of Michel Tremblay, one of their biggest fans. Among others, he talks about Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the
These poems interrogate dominant modes of language and communication by intermingling jargon from news articles, critical political texts, and popular music. Marxist economics juxtapose with pop cultu
While panhandling outside a coffee shop, Johnny, a Cree woman, is shocked to recognize a face from her childhood, which was spent in a Native American boarding school. Desperate to hear him acknowledg
Philosopher C.S. Morrissey adapts Hesiod’s two great works, Theogony and Works and Days, taking into account the poet’s essential meditative insights that paved the way for the subsequent achievements
Newly unemployed baby boomers Gwen and Ned appear to be -completely different people: Gwen, a practical, down-to-earth Latin teacher; Ned, an impractical investment advisor constantly dreaming up new
Charles Olson once defined "Muthologos" as "what is said about what is said," which encompasses a breadth of discourse that would define the near and far range of where the poet's mind went in a lifet
Timothy Findley and the Aesthetics of Fascism: Intertextual Collaboration and Resistance investigates the troubling relationship between narrative meaning and representations of violence within Timoth
Vancouver-based La Melia was the winner of the 2014 RBC Canadian Painting Competition, but painting is just one of the mediums she employs. First and foremost, she is a poet. The poetic path followed
Combining serial poetic technique with pop psychology how-to books, Dina Del Bucchia fashions punchy emotional guides in an age when illusory autonomy is achieved by "going viral" and through obsessiv
In Annihilated Time, Jeff Derksen offers a clear point of view from which to critique and unsettle contemporary neoliberalism and its slippery redeployments of democratic vocabularies for undemocrati
The Unnatural and Accidental Women is a surrealist dramatization of a thirty-year murder case involving many mysterious deaths in the ?Skid Row” area of Vancouver. All the victims were found dead with
The editor of this lively, updated assortment of reviews, interviews and other critical deliberations on contemporary Canadian drama has gathered material from books, theatre and scholarly journals;
A collection of 60-plus miniature fictions riffing on the theme of happiness, written as an antidote to the all-pervasive climate of doom that we are living through. This is fiction that is meant to d
King Arthur’s Night and Peter Panties are two plays with music by co-writers Niall McNeil and Marcus Youssef, with songs by Veda Hille. McNeil is a professional actor whose life includes Down syndrome
In her "re-vision" of Vancouver Poems, originally published in 1972, Daphne Marlatt's additional lyrics trace countless transformations of a West Coast port city. In Vancouver's fast-moving, realty-dr
With perceptive, unflinching wit, these three early plays from award-winning Chilean Canadian writer Carmen Aguirre document the hardships, horrors, and heartache of exile, revealing the far-reaching
It has been well known since Marius Barbeau’s review of the first edition of Franz Boas’s Tsimshian Mythology in 1917, that something was seriously amiss with Boas’s alleged ?translations” of the stor
Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth is the emotional story of a woman’s struggle to acknowledge her birth family. Grace, a Native girl adopted by a White family, is asked by her birth sister to re
What happens when two differently gendered playwrights from distinct cultures investigate racism, misogyny, and miscegenation in a small 1960s mill town? Talker's Town by Nelson Gray and The Girl Who
These two plays take a hyper-critical view of the public education system. Parents Night is a scathing, bold look at the inside of an elementary school classroom. The Bigger Issue turns its eye toward
Joseph Tussman’s The Burden of Office is a book about the nature of political authority. Consider the symptoms of our present dilemma: leadership reduced to media sound bites,” legitimate public power
On April 20, 1863, the British naval gunboat Forward attacked a Native village on Kuper Island. The naval officers believed that the village harboured individuals involved in two recent assaults again
Idle No More, Truth and Reconciliation Commission, National Survey of Missing or Murdered Aboriginal Women … How can we co-exist if our common history is shame, injury, and anger? How can we counterac
Following on two previous collections? Write It on Your Heart: The Epic World of an Okanagan Storyteller (1989) and Nature Power: In the Spirit of an Okanagan Storyteller (2004)?Talonbooks is pleased
Haida artist Charles Edenshaw in the late 1800s carved three platters depicting the same two frightened figures in a canoe. Their mission: enable men and women to go forth and multiply. Browne explore
Anthropologists have traditionally studied Europe’s ?others” and the marginalized and excluded within Europe’s and North America’s boundaries. This book turns the anthropologist’s spyglass in the oppo
