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At a time when people must work harder than ever to stand out from the crowd, the word creativity can seem vague and overused. But what exactly is creativity?

This book shares the life story of Anishinaabe artist Rene Meshake in stories, poetry, and Anishinaabemowin "word bundles" that serve as a dictionary of Ojibwe poetics.

The materials we turn to for the construction of our literary pasts - the texts, performances, and discussions selected for storage and cataloguing in archives - shape what we know and teach about

Where do children travel when they read a story?

What happens next? That was the question asked of early-twentieth-century authors Nellie L. McClung, L. M.

Legendary poet, novelist, and essayist Margaret Atwood gives us a surprising look at the topic of debt -- a timely subject during our current period of economic upheaval, caused by the collapse of

For many Canadians, the small province of New Brunswick on Canada's scenic east coast is "a nice place to visit but no place to live," plagued for generations by outmigration and eco

The Nage people of the eastern Indonesian island of Flores refer to someone who begins something but is regularly distracted by other matters as "a dog pissing at the edge of a path." In

This collection of essays examines how the sense of crisis that occasionally seems to overwhelm us directs and transforms Canadian and Quebec writings in English and French, and conversely, how lit

From the New York Times bestselling, Booker Prize–winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell

The extraordinary life of one of the world’s greatest music and literary icons, in the words of those who knew him best.

An affecting biography of the author of Anne of Green Gables is the first for young readers to include revelations about her last days and to encompass the complexity of a brilliant and sometimes t

Contributor List Paul Barrett, University of Guelph Michael Bucknor, University of West Indies Austin Clarke (1934 – 2016) George Elliott Clarke, University of Toronto Patrick Crean, Toronto, Cyril

There are few creative acts more mysterious and magical than writing a song.

L'existence de Philip K. Dick, illustre auteur de science-fiction, fut soumise à la force débordante de son imagination.