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The 1940 Under the Volcano—hidden for too long in the shadows of Lowry’s 1947 masterpiece—differs from the latter in significant ways.

Dry Water tells the story of Donald Strand, from the time of his arrival as a ten-year-old orphan at his relatives’ Manitoba farm in 1890 to his apogee as a successful farmer.

In Ballast to the White Sea is Malcolm Lowry’s most ambitious work of the mid-1930s.

Carroll Aikins’s play The God of Gods (1919) has been out of print since its first and only edition in 1927.

Bertram Brooker won the country's first Governor General's Award for literature in 1936 for his novel Think of the Earth, and his explosive, experimental paintings hang in every major gal

A new critical edition of the acknowledged best Canadian novel of the 1930s.

First published in 1963, in East Germany, They Divided the Sky tells the story of a young couple, living in the new, socialist, East Germany, whose relationship is tested to the extreme not only be

Swinging the Maelstrom is the story of a musician enduring existence in the Bellevue psychiatric hospital in New York.

This volume comprises a reprinting and gloss of the original text of the 1933 Communist play Eight Men Speak.

As land is lost to urban sprawl and other non-farm activity, our ability to produce food is diminished and options for future food production are limited.

John Werner was a storyteller. A Mennonite immigrant in southern Manitoba, he captivated his audiences with tales of adventure and perseverance.

Few things are as important as the food we eat.

A quixotic figure, Vasile Avramenko (1895-1981) used folk culture and modern media in a life-long crusade to promote Ukraine’s struggle for independence to North American audiences.

“It can start with a knock on the door one morning.

First Nations peoples believe the eagle flies with a female wing and a male wing, showing the importance of balance between the feminine and the masculine in all aspects of individual and community