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"All men, everywhere, have asked the same questions: Whence we come, what kind of thing we are, and at least some intimation of what may become of us..." So begins Nobel Prize-winning sci

For two decades, first at Wellesley and then at Cornell, Nabokov introduced undergraduates to the delights of great fiction.

"May you live in interesting times." So goes the ancient Chinese curse. In Quebec, we are always living in "interesting" times.

To date, Canadian poet, novelist, and essayist David Helwig has published close to fifty books and edited numerous others.

"You're telling me I'm being sensitive, and students looking for safe spaces that they're being hypersensitive.

"Our country is now as close to crossing the line from democracy to autocracy as it has been in our lifetimes." - E. J. Dionne, Jr.

Bill Moyers Journal: The Conversation Continues includes the very best of Bill Moyers's conversations from the celebrated weekly PBS broadcast Bill Moyers Journal, with luminaries ranging from

Ever since quitting her job teaching pediatrics at Harvard Medical School in 1980, Helen Caldicott has worked tirelessly for a safe, sustainable, nuclear-free planet, most recently by hosting a wee

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

Here is a lifetime's worth of reflection, of illumination, by one of North America's finest contemporary writers of fiction, autobiography, and nonfiction, founder of the graduate program in Creati

The first real look at the Canadian West Harmon's Journal-the first published English-language journal written in B.C.-is a lively, engaging story that, unlike other early journals, captures the ro

Scottish doctor and explorer John Rae is a controversial figure in the history of the Arctic.

Although Arctic explorer and Hudson Bay Company surveyor John Rae (1813–1893) travelled and recorded the final uncharted sections of the Northwest Passage, he is best known for his controversial di

If Frederick Scott is remembered at all today, it is as minor Victorian poet or as the father of his illustrious son F.R. Scott.

Laura Holland and Mildred Forbes, an inseparable duo, set off from Montreal in June 1915 to serve as nursing sisters in the Great War.