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In George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion, a phonetician believes the power of speech is such that he can introduce a Cockney flower girl to polite society after careful language and etiquette t

At four a.m.

These varied essays explore the language of racial misrecognition (a.k.a.

"Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing" tells another story of the mythical Wasaychigan Hill Indian Reserve, also the setting for Tomson Highway's award winning play The Rez Sisters.

Protrays the attempts of seven Indian women from a northern Ontario reserve to beat the odds and win the world's largest bingo in Ontario.

Guillermo Gómez-Peña has spent many years developing his unique style of performance-activism; his theatricalizations of postcolonial theory.

An essay on aesthetics by the Japanese novelist, this book explores architecture, jade, food, and even toilets, combining an acute sense of the use of space in buildings.

The Tony Award—winning play that soars at the intersection of science and art, Copenhagen is an explosive re-imagining of the mysterious wartime meeting between two Nobel laureates to discuss the a

Il y a Fanny, à l'aube de la soixantaine, qui a l'impression de flotter dans l'aquarium de sa vie.

Un fils qui fait ses premiers pas au théâtre est terrassé par le décès de son père.

How does life begin? What does it mean? What happens when we die? “All anyone can do is ask,” Lepore writes.

Freud swore by it. Heidegger swore at it. Kierkegaard swore off it. In our everyday lives we can't live without it. It's just talk. Before media, before the Internet there was talk.

A selection of non-fiction writings composed of essays and reviews written between 1968 and 1985.