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In the twenty-first century, Canada has a reputation for being one of the most gay-friendly nations on earth, a pioneer in legalizing same-sex marriage, and home to enormously popular Pride parades

In this essay collection, Henighan ranges across continents, centuries and linguistic traditions to examine how literary culture and our perception of history are changing as the world grows smalle

The River is Paul Vasey's tribute to Windsor, a place he discovered by accident and loved over a lifetime.

An illustrated history of bootlegging along the Great Lakes, Rumrunners gives us a sense of Prohibition and the larger-than-life rumrunners and bootleggers who thrived during it in a way that no do

Clark Blaise is a North American treasure, one of a handful of the truly important short story writers in the last 50 years.

John Metcalf's Shut Up He Explained defies expectations and strict definition.

When Deni B'chard learned of the last living bonobos the matriarchal great apes who are, alongside chimpanzees, our closest relatives he began exploring ways to reverse their alarming decline.

He had fifty-seven seconds of screen time in the most lavish POW film Hollywood ever produced. He was blond. A Gestapo agent.

Meet the 'fast zombie' citizen of the current world. He is a rapid, brainless carrier of preference-driven consumption. His Facebook-style 'likes' replace complex notions of personhood.

Everybody knows a brown-noser when they see one. But how about a greeter? A workbrickle? A jack? Can they tell downsizing from grey bearding or bright sizing?

Shortly after completing his sixth novel, Ray Robertson suffered a depression of suicidal intensity.

John O'Brien first learned about Oak Island in 1958 at the age of twelve, listening intently as his pharmacist father and a Saint Mary's University professor debated, for an entire winter, the meri

It begins with the founding of Halifax; the development of Nova Scotia and how it devolved into the Maritime provinces (ca.1785); the failure of Maritime Union, evolution of responsible government

Au grand plaisir des milliers de lecteurs qui ont dévoré son recueil Mes histoires paru en octobre 2018 — Jean Chrétien reprend la plume pour raconter d'autres épisodes de sa longue et pre

Un vieux, un jeune – un conteur, un auditeur – des heures d'un travail routinier, propice aux histoires et aux réflexions. La table est mise pour ces courts essais anecdotiques.