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A Soviet film crew is producing a movie called Chekhov's journey, using a new method of hypnosis on the main actor to make him reincarnate Anton Chekhov.

How to Draw a Rhinoceros, the first book of poems by Canadian writer, scholar, and lawyer Kate Sutherland, mines centuries of rhinoceros representations in art and literature to document the histor

Would it be possible to compose a book that appears to be "about" its author, but is indirectly about something else, like identity or relationships or language?

In 1981 Jake Kennedy accidentally burnt down an abandoned house.

Mark, an intelligence officer, once an Auschwitz victim, is sent to Germany on assignment. The case involves neo-Nazism and anti-semitism. He once again meets the only woman he ever loved.

Maine, 1980. A utopian community is on the verge of collapse. The charismatic leader's authority teeters as his followers come to realize they've been exploited for too long.

There's a real fascination with fathers in Québécoise literature, and this recurring persona populates fiction, films, and the stories people tell of their families and themselves.

When Andy Warhol's a, A Novel was first published in 1968, The New York Times Book Review declared it "pornographic." Yet over four decades later, a continues to be an essential docu

A treasury of short stories that people of all ages will love - those who already are golden aged, and those who want to make their 'mature years' the best.

Beautiful Children with Pet Foxes, the new collection of poetry from Giller Prize–longlisted writer Jennifer LoveGrove, attempts to make sense of a difficult and unsettling world, where one need no

Deep Salt Water is an intimate memoir about abortion, expressed through a layering of language and imagery of the ocean.

Much of the language that makes up Better Nature—the first poetry collection by writer and academic Fenn Stewart—is drawn from a diary that Walt Whitman wrote while travelling t

Pulling from raw themes of grief and death, regret and discomfort, sadness and failure, Worth wears these poems down to their bones.

Famous novelist Gerald Candless dies of a heart attack. Before his death, his daughter had been commissioned to write his biography.

Although Lisa had reached the pinnacle of success in her career, she still longed for motherhood. Many problems needed to be overcome before her wish could be fulfilled.