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Words and images interact with each other in art and everyday life and do so in many different ways.

Canadian Performance Documents and Debates provides insight into performance activities from the seventeenth century to the early 1970s, and probes important yet vexing questions about Canada as a

Edward Taylor Fletcher was born in England in 1817 and arrived in Canada as a young boy. An important figure in Canadian literature, Fletcher's writing was almost entirely forgotten by history.

In The Children's Guide to Folklore and Wonder Tales, Dr.

Trailblazing food writer and beloved restaurant critic Ruth Reichl took the job (and the risk) of a lifetime when she entered the glamorous, high-stakes world of magazine publishing.

National Book Award-winning biographer Deirdre Bair explores her fifteen remarkable years in Paris with Samuel Beckett and Simone de Beauvoir, painting intimate new portraits of two literary giants

"A warm, generous and hilarious guide through the writer's world and its treacherous swamps."-Los Angeles Times.

The comprehensive biography of Stan Lee, father of Spider-Man and The Avengers, beloved comic book writer and editor, and former president and publisher of Marvel Comics, by Lee's colleague of over

Every great author started out as a kid. Before the bestsellers, fan clubs, and beloved stories we know today, the world's most celebrated writers had regular-kid problems just like you.

2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence Longlist Selection.

In September 1919 Gabriele D'Annunzio, successful poet and occasional politician, declared himself Commandante of the city of Fiume in modern day Croatia.

An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts is a genre-bending memoir, a work of "autotheory" offeri

On October 30, 1938, families across the country were gathered around their radios when their regular programming was interrupted by an announcer delivering news of a meteor strike in New Jersey.

Marcello Di Cintio first visited Palestine in 1999.

A New York Times bestseller and National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson, the acclaimed author of  Another Brooklyn, tells the moving story of her childhood