A journalist and folklorist explores the truths that underlie the stories we imagineand reveals the magic in the everyday.Ive always felt that the term fairy tale doesnt quite capture the essence of these stories, writes Emily Urquhart. I prefer the term wonder tale, which is Irish in origin, for its suggestion of awe coupled with narrative. In a way, this is most of our stories. In this startlingly original essay collection, Urquhart reveals the truths that underlie our imaginings: what we see in our heads when we read, how the sight of a ghost can heal, how the entrance to the underworld can be glimpsed in an oil painting or a winter stormor the onset of a loved ones dementia. In essays on death and dying, pregnancy and prenatal genetics, radioactivity, chimeras, cottagers, and plague, Ordinary Wonder Tales reveals the essential truth: if you let yourself look closely, there is magic in the everyday.
Selected by editor Mark Anthony Jarman, the 2023 edition of Best Canadian Stories showcases the best Canadian fiction writing published in 2021. A collection that takes us into a firey near-future and a notorious feminist's personal past, from a near-drowning to a fake breakdown, through mothers who fail us to crummy jobs, to thieves, to grief, to revenge with a bottle of tabasco sauce. With work by established practitioners alongside that of lesser-known writers, this year's Best Canadian Stories shows how the short form can evoke the experience of a person on the brink. Including 2023 Metcalf-Rooke Award winner Caroline Adderson, and featuring, in tribute, two stories by the late Steven Heighton, this year's collection draws together beloved Canadian practitioners of the form and thrilling new voices to continue not only a series, but a legacy in Canadian letters. Featuring works by:Caroline Adderson * David Bezmozgis * Jowita Bydlowska * Kate Cayley * Tamas Dobozy * Omar El Akkad * Christine Estima * Naomi Fontaine * Sara Freeman * Steven Heighton * Philip Huynh * David Huebert * Alexandra Mae Jones * Carmelinda Scian
Selected by editor Mireille Silcoff, the 2023 edition of Best Canadian Essays showcases the best Canadian nonfiction writing published in 2021. âOur current, tumultuous ageâ? writes editor Mireille Silcoff, âis an important time for essayists, because in moments of great change, itâ¿s good to have chroniclers with the presence of mind to step back and assess.â? Silcoffâ¿s selections for Best Canadian Essays 2023 do just that. In examinations of identityâ¿personal, familial, racial, and culturalâ¿and investigations of the far-reaching shockwaves of war; in mediations on illness and health, belonging and alienation, parents and children; in unexpected arguments about novel-writing, Donald Trump, and the Filet-O-Fish sandwich, the essays gathered here chart all kinds of boundaries, comprising, as Silcoff terms it, âa small bid for understanding that a border, a line drawn, need not be only the beginning or the end of something. That a frontier can be a placeâ¿indeed is the best placeâ¿for a conversation between sides to begin.â?Featuring works by:Jamaluddin Aram ⢠Sharon Butala ⢠Kunal Chaudhary ⢠Christopher Cheung ⢠Emma Gilchrist ⢠Michelle Good ⢠Paul Howe ⢠Jane Hu ⢠Heather Jessup ⢠Chafic LaRochelle ⢠Stephen Marche ⢠Kathy Page ⢠Tom Rachman ⢠M.E. Rogan ⢠Allan Stratton ⢠Sarmishta Subramanian
Selected by editor John Barton, the 2023 edition of Best Canadian Poetry showcases the best Canadian poetry writing published in 2021. âMy goal,â? writes guest editor John Barton of his long career as a literary magazine editor, âwas always to be jostled awake, and I soon realized that I was being jostled awake for twoâ¿myself and the reader â¿ I came to understand that my job description included an obligation to expose readers to wide varieties of poetry, to challenge their assumptions while expanding their taste.â? In selecting this yearâ¿s edition of Best Canadian Poetry, Barton brings the same catholic spirit to his survey of Canadian poems published by magazines and journals in 2021. From new work by Canadian favourites to exciting new talents, this yearâ¿s anthology offers fifty poems to challenge and enlarge your sense of the power and possibility of Canadian poetry. Featuring:Leslie Joy Ahenda ⢠Billy-Ray Belcourt ⢠Bertrand Bickersteth ⢠Tawahum Bige ⢠Stephanie Bolster ⢠Susan Braley ⢠Moni Brar ⢠Jake Byrne ⢠Helen Cho ⢠Conyer Clayton ⢠Lucas Crawford ⢠Sophie Crocker ⢠Michael Dunwoody ⢠Evelyna Ekoko-Kay ⢠Tyler Engström ⢠Triny Finlay ⢠Elee Kraljii Gardiner ⢠Lise Gaston ⢠Susan Gillis ⢠Beth Goobie ⢠Patrick Grace ⢠Laurie D. Graham ⢠River Halen ⢠Eva H.D. ⢠Louise Bernice Halfeâ¿Skydancer ⢠Sarah Hilton ⢠Karl Jirgens ⢠MobólúwajÃdìde D. Joseph ⢠Penn Kemp ⢠Jeremy Loveday ⢠Randy Lundy ⢠Helen Han Wei Luo ⢠Colin Morton ⢠Jordan Mounteer ⢠Samantha Nock ⢠Kathryn Nogue ⢠Michelle Porter ⢠Rebekah Rempel ⢠Armand Garnet Ruffo ⢠Richard Sanger ⢠Nedda Sarshar ⢠K.R. Segriff ⢠Christina Shah ⢠Sandy Shreve ⢠Adrian Southin ⢠J.J. Steinfeld ⢠Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang ⢠Eric Wang ⢠Tom Wayman ⢠Jan Zwicky
An outrageously comic novel documents a middle-aged writer and mother's grappling with mid-life crisisher husband's and her own.Preoccupied with her fledgling literary career, intent on the all-consuming consolations of philosophy, and scrambling to meet the demands of her four children, the acutely myopic and chronically inattentive Vita Glass doesnt notice that herhouse and her marriage are competing to see which can fall apart fastest. Shecan barely find time for her writing career, and just when her newfound success in vegetable erotica is beginning to take off.Our heroines only tried and trusted escape is the blissful detachment of Keith's hairdressing salon, but when her husband leaves the country, unannounced, she decides to do likewisein the opposite direction, and with their children. Drawn from the pages of Vitas journal, this outrageously comic novel documents Vita's passage through a mid-life crisis and explores all the ways we deceive each other and ourselves.
The remarkable true story of the rise and fall of one of North America's most influential media moguls.When George McCullagh bought The Globe and The Mail and Empire and merged them into the Globe and Mail, the charismatic 31-year-old high school dropout had already made millions on the stock market. It was just the beginning of the meteoric rise of a man widely expected to one day be prime minister of Canada. But the charismatic McCullagh had a dark side. Dogged by the bipolar disorder that destroyed his political ambitions and eventually killed him, he was all but written out of history. It was a loss so significant that journalist Robert Fulford has called McCullaghs biography one of the great unwritten books in Canadian historyuntil now.In Big Men Fear Me, award-winning historian Mark Bourrie tells the remarkable story of McCullaghs inspirational rise and devastating fall, and with it sheds new light on the resurgence of populist politics, challenges to collective action, and attacks on the free press that characterize our own tumultuous era.
As apt to channel the confessionalism of Anne Sexton as the red-in-tooth-and-claw nature poetry of Ted Hughes, Patrick Warners voice ranges freely from the colloquial to the baroque. Over the past fifteen years, by harboring and honoring such fraught tensions. In Octopus we have him at his best.
The annual collection of the best Canadian short fiction, selected by an accomplished and influential guest editor.
A must-read for anyone with a stake in contemporary Canadian literature, or with curiosity about poetry on the world stage.
In this compelling whodunnit, Elaine Dewar reads the science, follows the money, and connects the geopolitical interests to the spin.When the first TV newscast described a SARS-like flu affecting a distant Chinese metropolis, investigative journalist Elaine Dewar started asking questions: Was SARS-CoV-2 something that came from nature, as leading scientists insisted, or did it come from a lab, and what role might controversial experiments have played in its development? Why was Wuhan the pandemic's ground zero-and why, on the other side of the Atlantic, had two researchers been marched out of a lab in Winnipeg by the RCMP? Why were governments so slow to respond to the emerging pandemic, and why, now, is the government of China refusing to cooperate with the World Health Organization? And who, or what, is DRASTIC?Locked down in Toronto with the world at a standstill, Dewar pored over newspapers and magazines, preprints and peer-reviewed journals, email chains and blacked-out responses to access to information requests; she conducted Zoom interviews and called telephone numbers until someone answered as she hunted down the truth of the virus's origin. In this compelling whodunnit, she reads the science, follows the money, connects the geopolitical interests to the spin-and shows how leading science journals got it wrong, leaving it to interested citizens and junior scientists to pull out the truth.
FINALIST FOR THE 2020 NELSON BALL PRIZE"e;In a dark time,"e; wrote Theodore Roethke, "e;the eye begins to see"e;-and with Braille Rainbow, Mike Barnes reveals both darkness and the light that shines beyond it. Beginning with a suite of poems completed before and immediately following his admission to a psychiatric unit as a young man, Barnes's quiet lyricism and formal sensitivity capture those moments of perception that remind us how to see.Please note that the text of this book is not produced in braille.
The storied annual collection of the best Canadian short fiction selected by accomplished and influential guest editors.
The twelfth installment of Canada's annual volume of essays showcases diverse nonfiction writing from across the country.
Shortlisted for the Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction PrizeHomage to Jean Genets antihero and a brilliant reimagining of the ancient form of tragedy,Querelle of Roberval, winner of the Marquis de Sade Prize, is a wildly imaginative story of justice, passion, and murderous revenge.As a millworkers strike in the northern lumber town of Roberval drags on, tensions start to escalate between the workersbut when a lockout renews their solidarity, they rally around the mysterious and magnetic influence of Querelle, a dashing newcomer from Montreal. Strapping and unabashed, likeable but callow, by day he walks the picket lines and at night moves like a mythic Adonis through the ranks of young men who flock to his apartment for sex. As the dispute hardens and both sides refuse to yield, sand stalls the gears of the economic machine and the tinderbox of class struggle and entitlement ignites in a firestorm of passions carnal and violent. Trenchant social drama, a tribute to Jean Genets antihero, and a brilliant reimagining of the ancient form of tragedy, Querelle of Roberval, winner of Frances Marquis de Sade Prize, is a wildly imaginative story of justice, passion, and murderous revenge.
The much-anticipated follow-up to From the Vault, Volume 1 draws on local archives to bring historic London, Ontario, to life.Welcome to 1950 in London, Ontario. The post-war boom is in full swing, fueled by jobs, babies, and the modern consumer. New buildings dot the landscape, marking the advent of suburbia and rise of the shopping mall. When the 401 cuts through town, London finds itself on the cultural map, bringing famous acts to town. Taken by the spirit of protest, Londoners hit the streets to make their voices heard. The Forest City is electric with change.From the Vault, Volume II: 1950 to 1975 explores what were among the most important and exciting years of London's history. From the opening of Wellington Square Mall to a Royal Visit, the demolition of Hotel London to anti-Vietnam protests, the book illustrates the era by featuring over 1,250 iconic images from the archives of the London Free Press, held at Western Archives.As London's paper of record for 170 years, the London Free Press remains the region's greatest source of historical photography and eyewitness testimony. Like its predecessor, the best-selling From the Vault, this book sets a new standard for Canadian excellence in regional history. Documenting landmark events, timeless memories, and unforgettable characters, it's a must-have for lovers of history.
The annual collection of the best Canadian short fiction, selected by an accomplished and influential guest editor.
Seth's newly illustrated version of a classic Christmas Ghost Story by horror master M.R. James.
"Award-winning Indigenous author Harold R. Johnson discusses the promise and potential of storytelling. Approached by an ecumenical society representing many faiths, from Judeo-Christians to fellow members of First Nations, Harold R. Johnson agreed to host a group who wanted to hear him speak about the power of storytelling. This book is the outcome of that gathering. In The Power of Story, Johnson explains the role of storytelling in every aspect of human life, from personal identity to history and the social contracts that structure our societies, and illustrates how we can direct its potential to re-create and reform not only our own lives, but the life we share. Companionable, clear-eyed, and, above all, optimistic, Johnson's message is both a dire warning and a direct invitation to each of us to imagine and create, together, the world we want to live in."--
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