In this day and age, when art has become more of a commodity and art school graduates are convinced that they can only make a living from their work by attaining gallery representation, it is more important than ever to show the reality...
Essays
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Living the Changes explores the nature and extent of women's changing realities. The contributors include writers, artists, academics, street kids and social workers, and range in age from nine to seventy-three. Their topics...
- Author:Driedger, DianeSummary:
This important and ground-breaking collection brings together the diverse voices of women with various disabilities, both physical and mental. Here, Canadian women speak frankly about the societal barriers they encounter in their...
- Author:Pilon, MarySummary:
“It's easy to do anything in victory. It’s in defeat that a man reveals himself.” —Floyd Patterson Twenty-two notable writers—including Bob Sullivan, Abby Ellin, Mike Pesca, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Louisa Hall, and Gay Talese—...
- Author:Brooks, ColetteSummary:
How do we make sense of the modern world' Science is a profoundly affecting aspect of contemporary life, and yet the gulf between experts and everyone else is widening. Colette Brooks bridges the gap by playing the role of curious...
- Author:Fisher, M. F. K.Summary:
Whether the suB.J.ect of her fancy is the lowly, unassuming potato or the love life of that aphrodisiac mollusk the oyster, Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher writes with a simplicity that belies the complexities of the life she often muses on...
- Author:Van Ness, JonathanSummary:
In this candid and curious essay collection, Jonathan takes a thoughtful, in-depth look at timely topics through the lens of his own personal experience. These stories speak to doing the work to challenge internalized beliefs, finding...
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Twenty-six writers in Canada were asked to contribute pieces of original work describing how they see writing today. From Atwood's opening, through writing from Indigenous writers, the reader is given a sense of how twenty-seven of...
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Twenty-seven writers in Canada were asked to contribute pieces of original work describing how they see writing today. From Atwood's opening, through writing from Indigenous writers, the reader is given a sense of how twenty-seven of...
- Author:Melville, StephenSummary:
This volume examines the force of art history's attraction to particular objects and the corresponding rhythms of attachment and detachment that animate the discipline.
- Author:Sayed, AsmaSummary:
This collection was born of a conviction that Vassanji's contributions to the global literary scene merit more in-depth scholarly notice. The articles herein, most of which are comparative in focus, provide various interpretations of...
- Author:MacMillan, Ernest, Morey, CarlSummary:
In addition to his activities as conductor, administrator, educator, composer, and organist, Sir Ernest MacMillan (1893-1973) found time to write more than one hundred essays and lectures on music. Always ready to use his enormous...
- Author:Coates, ColinSummary:
On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of Queen Elizabeth’s accession to the throne, the Centre of Canadian Studies of the University of Edinburgh hosted its annual conference on the theme "Majesty in Canada". The essays...
- Author:Berg, ElizabethSummary:
This is a collection of Elizabeth Berg's most-loved Facebook posts. She was asked by many to put these short essays into book form, to create, as one reader said, something to "take to the beach, or bed, or on an airplane." Elizabeth...
- Author:Driver, MinnieSummary:
A charming, poignant, and mesmerizing memoir in essays from actor and natural-born storyteller Minnie Driver, chronicling the way life works out even when it doesn't.
- Author:Armstrong, JoleneSummary:
Born near Park Valley, Saskatchewan, on Crown land, often referred to by locals as a road allowance community, Maria Campbell is the oldest of 8 children. Much of her early years are revealed in Halfbreed, the book which would...
- Author:Hooft, Gerard T.Summary:
Human curiosity has led us to explore our solar system, landing on the moon and sending spacecraft to study distant planetary objects. The next step in our great adventure is putting humans on Mars, but what will it really take to...
- Author:Sedaris, DavidSummary:
Creative nonfiction writer David Sedaris presents a humorous, yet touching collection of personal essays. As featured in The New Yorker and Esquire as well as read aloud on National Public Radio, this collection relates to listeners...
- Author:Kingwell, MarkSummary:
Mark Kingwell is as at home discussing 'Battlestar Galactica' as he is civility, can find the Plato in popular culture, and sees in idleness a deeply revolutionary gesture. In 'Measure Yourself Against the Earth', he brings his heady...
- Author:League of Canadian PoetsSummary:
A society without poetry and the other arts would have broken its mirror and cut out its heart.--"Margaret Atwood. So boldly insists one of our greatest writers in Measures of Astonishment, a refreshing and eclectic mix of both deeply...
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