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In this award-winning collection from his Montreal Gazette city columns, Joe Fiorito reveals the true heart and soul of a large city.

Small Things is a book of mini-anti-essays, part of Sky Gilbert's project to dismantle and challenge the rigid classifications of genre.

This is a book about a small Southern Italian village and its offshoots in Toronto.

I open my eyes in the darkness, laying on my side, half my vision is of the earth and shadows; the other is of the sky, treetops, and stars. I should write Clifford's story.

Steve Reinke is one of the most intriguing artists we've got; his scope is enormous, his imagination absolutely singular.

The persistence of misconceptions about Italian-Canadian food culture raises many questions for us. Are we gluttonous, inebriate and too loud? Do we force-feed guests?

Archives are often depicted as musty repositories, museum cellars, warehouses shoring up retaining walls against forgetfulness and the inevitable erosions of time.

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

Illuminating African narratives for readers both inside and outside the continent.

Illuminating African narratives for readers both inside and outside the continent.

Illuminating African narratives for readers both inside and outside the continent.

Illuminating African narratives for readers both inside and outside the continent.

Illuminating African narratives for readers both inside and outside the continent.

Illuminating African narratives for readers both inside and outside the continent.

Illuminating African narratives for readers both inside and outside the continent.