Samantha Irby explodes onto the printed page with her debut collection of brand-new essays about trying to laugh her way through failed relationships, being black, taco feasts, bouts with Crohn's disease, and more. Every essay is...
Essays
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Author:Irby, SamanthaSummary: - Author:Tortell, Philippe, Turin, Mark, Young, MargotSummary:
This book examines the character and relevance of remembrance, inviting readers to think creatively and deeply about the ways that memories are transmitted, recorded, and distorted through time and space. Ranging from molecular genetics...
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The North is changing at an unprecedented rate as industrial development and the climate crisis disrupt not only the environment but also long-standing relationships to the land and traditional means of livelihood. Memory and Landscape...
- Author:Des Rosiers, JoëlSummary:
Métaspora essai sur les patries intimes J’appelle métaspora la perversion digitale de la nostalgie. En plus d’être une expérience du don et de l’émotion, la métaspora est aussi une catégorie esthétique, un emblème du Beau. La métaspora...
- Author:Fagell, Phyllis L.Summary:
A counselor and popular Washington Post contributor offers a new take on grades six through eight as a distinct developmental phase, and the perfect time to set up kids to thrive.
- Author:Malek, Ghadeer, Moussa, GhaidaSummary:
Min Fami: Arab Feminist Reflections on Identity, Space, and Resistance is an anthology that cradles the thoughts of Arab feminists, articulated through personal critical narratives, academic essays, poetry, short stories, and...
- Author:Jacobsen, MikkaSummary:
Modern Fables is a darkly funny, feminist collection of essays about love and place. In this darkly funny book about love in the digital age, Mikka Jacobsen challenges the notion that a single woman in her thirties writing about love is...
- Author:von Sothen, JohnSummary:
A hilarious, candid account of what life in France is actually like, from a writer for Vanity Fair and GQ Americans love to love Paris. We buy books about how the French parent, why French women don't get fat, and how to be...
- Author:Forrie, AllanSummary:
Canada is a vast country defined by its untamed wilderness, diverse ecologies, and natural beauty. It is a country associated with nature and exploration on the most fundamental level, whose people each have a story to tell of their...
- Author:Hustvedt, SiriSummary:
Feminist philosophy and family memoir merge in this new essay collection from award-winning author Siri Hustvedt, an exploration of the shifting borders that define human experience, including boundaries we usually take for granted-...
- Author:Steinem, GloriaSummary:
With cool humor and rich intellect, Gloria Steinem strips bare our social constructions of gender and race, explaining just how limiting these invented cultural identities can be. In the first of six sections, Steinem imagines how our...
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Municipal Boundary Battles explores the motivations, land use effects, and financial implications of municipal boundary adjustments across Canada, focusing mainly on annexations and amalgamations - the most frequent means to adjust...
- Author:Murakami, HarukiSummary:
The international literary icon opens his eclectic closet: Here are photographs of Murakami’s extensive and personal T-shirt collection, accompanied by essays that reveal a side of the writer rarely seen by the public. Considered "...
- Author:Ratajkowski, EmilySummary:
A deeply honest investigation of what it means to be a woman and a commodity from Emily Ratajkowski, the archetypal, multi-hyphenate celebrity of our time Emily Ratajkowski is an acclaimed model and actress, an engaged political...
- Author:Maracle, LeeSummary:
My Conversations With Canadians is the book that "Canada150" needs.Harkening back to her first book tour at the age of 26 (for the autobiographical novel Bobbi Lee: Indian Rebel), and touching down upon a multitude of experiences she's...
- Author:Nye, MichaelSummary:
My Heart Is Not Blind: On Blindness and Perception is a collection of stunning portraits of blind and visually impaired people taken by photographer Michael Nye. Each image is accompanied by an intimate story told by the subject...
- Author:Lippman, LauraSummary:
In this collection of new and previously published essays, author Laura Lippman shares her take on a woman's life across the decades. Covering her childhood and school years, her newspaper career, and her experiences as a novelist...
- Author:Pritchett, GeorgiaSummary:
When comedy writer Georgia Pritchett found herself lost for words, she turned to a therapist, who suggested she write down some of her worries. But instead, Georgia wrote this book on living, and thriving, with anxiety.
- Author:Kemper, EllieSummary:
Comedian and star of The Office and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Ellie Kemper delivers a hilarious and uplifting collection of essays about one pale woman's journey from Midwestern naIf to Hollywood semi-celebrity to outrageously...
- Author:Hodgins, Bruce W., Hobbs, MargaretSummary:
A rich history of Canadian wilderness travel, "an utterly compelling collection," said The Globe and Mail, and "a gem -- it absolutely sparkles," according to Canadian Geographic. Declared by the Canadian Historical...
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