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Beginning with seductive thoughts from Neruda's memorias, and brooding over the legends of the Haida people in British Columbia (the white raven) and Italian superstitions (the black cat), the

This powerful, beautiful book blends parables, aphorisms, dreams, fantasies, anecdotes, witticisms, puns, vignettes, and prose poems in a meditative and often passionate way.

This collection is a compelling examination and discussion of the work of Indigenous writer Daniel David Moses.

This book of essays examines the fictional work of Nino Ricci from a variety of critical perspectives.

No Safeguards, the first in a trilogy, follows Jay and his brother Paul from childhood to young adulthood.

Stone Woman is a saga of Blossom's unconventional family of five women, whose lives are bound by a Vietnam-War draft dodger David, immersed in the Yorkville subculture of the hippie daze of To

Centered around a young high school teacher, The King of the Sea Monkeys is a novel in two parts.

This collection was born of a conviction that Vassanji's contributions to the global literary scene merit more in-depth scholarly notice.

The characters in Holy Fools + 2 Stories are humble people who may seem mad. Burdened by delusion. Driven by irrational goals.

A novel about passions -- a passion for sex, a passion for America, and a passion for movie-making.

For 11 months Calvin White worked for Doctors Without Borders as a mental health specialist in the off-the-radar region of Karakalpakstan in western Uzbekistan.

A story of love and lust with philosophical overtones, Via Roma oscillates between joy and tragedy.

An ode to George Orwell's "1984" told in alternating male and female voices relates the stories of Aomame, an assassin for a secret organization who discovers that she has been trans

After an old man with a dark past smashes the guitar of private investigator Eliot Conte's adopted child Angel, the man is mysteriously killed. The violence-prone Conte becomes the chief suspect.

Daniel, a young French-Vietnamese man, lies dying in a Montreal hospital. Spurned by his family for contracting AIDS in Provincetown, Daniel spends his last months in despair.