My Conversations With Canadians is the book that "Canada 150" needs. On her first book tour at the age of 26, Lee Maracle was asked a question from the audience, one she couldn't possibly answer at that moment. But she has been thinking about it ever since. As time has passed, she has been asked countless similar questions, all of them too big to answer, but not too large to contemplate. These questions, which touch upon subjects such as citizenship,...

""To devote oneself to the study of beauty is to offer footnotes to the universe for all the places and all the moments that one observes beauty. I can no longer grab beauty by her wrists and demand articulation or meaning. I can only take account of where things touch." Part lyric essay, part prose poetry, Where Things Touch: A Meditation on Beauty grapples with the manifold meanings and possibilities of beauty. Drawing on her experiences as a physician-in-training,...

Never forget / to connect the dots / This book is an attempt to connect a couple. In Begin by Telling, experimental pop sensation Meg Remy (U.S. Girls) spins a web out from her body to myriad corners of American hyper-culture. Through illustrated lyric essays depicting visceral memories from early childhood to present day, Remy paints a stark portrait of a spectacle-driven country. As though channel surfing, we catch glimpses of Desert Storm,...

CanLit—the commonly used short form for English Canadian Literature as a cultural formation and industry-has been at the heart of several recent public controversies. Why? Because CanLit is breaking open to reveal the accepted injustices at its heart. It is imperative that these public controversies and the issues that sparked them be subject to careful and thorough discussion and critique. Refuse provides a critical and historical context to help...

Blank is a collection of previously out-of-print essays and new works by one of Canada's most important contemporary writers and thinkers. Through an engagement with her earlier work, M. NourbeSe Philip comes to realize the existence of a repetition in the world: the return of something that, while still present, has become unembedded from the world, disappeared. Her imperative becomes to make us see what has gone unseen, by writing memory upon the...

The experience of motherhood is fundamental, yet rarely discussed in connection with literary or creative life. How do we navigate the twin devotions of love and art? How does motherhood disrupt the creative process? How does it enhance it? Good Mom on Paper is a collection of twenty essays that goes beyond the cliches to explore the fraught, beautiful and complicated relationship between motherhood and creativity. These texts disclose the often-invisible...

Acadie, 1917. Dans un village acadien de bord de mer, o la vie se déploie au fil de ses saisons et de ses luttes, dans sa beauté et son âpreté, Jean-Baptiste, à peine un homme, et la jolie Angelaine s'aiment éperdument. Du jour au lendemain, leur monde bascule du tout au tout. Devenu orphelin en temps de guerre, désemparé, le jeune homme s'enrle dans l'Armée canadienne et quitte les rivages de son Acadie natale et sa bien-aimée. Il...

Voyages en nostalgie explore un corpus de productions culturelles et artistiques choisies en fonction de leur pouvoir évocateur et de leur capacité à faire ressurgir des moments privilégiés grâce à des lectures, des musiques, des publicités, des fictions télévisuelles, des films et des jeux vidéo. Si notre existence est faite de rencontres avec des personnes en chair et en os, elle est également modelée par d'innombrables rencontres...

Vivre en français dans le moyen Nord ontarien : quelle course à obstacles ! Un livre qui décrit avec une authenticité remarquable ce que cela veut dire d'être Franco-Ontarien. Les remarques sur l'Université d'Ottawa, défenderesse d'une éducation universitaire franco-ontarienne, sont d'une grande pertinence et une salutaire leçon d'histoire. Comme quoi une vie, même « d'une étoffe ordinaire » dirait Montaigne, peut aussi être représentative...

Extrait : "J'ai donné mes fleurs et mon fruit : je ne suis plus qu'un tronc retentissant ; mais quiconque s'assied à mon ombre et m'entend, devient plus sage. Je ressemble en beaucoup de choses au papillon : comme lui j'aime la lumière ; comme lui j'y brûle ma vie ; comme lui j'ai besoin, pour déployer mes ailes, que dans la société il fasse beau autour de moi, et que mon esprits s'y sente environné et comme pénétré d'une douce température,...