The Uncaged Voice

Edited by Keith Leckie
Contributions by Aaron Berhane, Gezahegn M. Demissie, Alexander Duarte, Ava Homa, Abdulrahman Matar, Ilamaran Nagarasa, Dishaly Ilamaran, Luis Horacio Nájera, Kiran Nazish, Pedro A. Restrepo, Maria Saba, Kaziwa Salih, Mahdi Saremifar, Bilal Sarwary, Savithri & Arzu Yildiz
Foreword by Mary Jo Leddy
Categories: Literary essays

Freedom, truth, and justice are taken for granted in some countries. In others, they are aspirational. And yet in others, they are deemed justification for persecution, punishment, and silence.

Through ...

River in an Ocean

Edited by Nuzhat Abbas
Foreword by Françoise Vergès
Contributions by Khairani Barokka, Yasmine Haj, Otoniya Okot Bitek, Suneela Mubayi, Iryn Tushabe, Gopika Jadeja, Rahat Kurd, Geetha Sukumaran, Norah Alkharashi, Lisa Ndejuru & Nedra Rodrigo
Categories: Literary Collections
Series: Essays

What are the histories, constraints, and possibilities of language in relation to bodies, origins, land, colonialism, gender, war, displacement, desire, and migration?

Moving across genres, memories, belongings, ...

An Anthology of Monsters

By (author) Cherie Dimaline
Categories: Biography: writers
Series: CLC Kreisel Lecture Series

An Anthology of Monsters by Cherie Dimaline, award-winning author of The Marrow Thieves, is the tale of an intricate dance with life-long anxiety. It is about how the stories we tell ourselves can help ...

Blue Portugal and Other Essays

By (author) Theresa Kishkan
Categories: Literary essays
Series: Wayfarer

Using the richness of braided essays, Theresa Kishkan thinks deeply about the natural world, mourns and celebrates the aging body, gently contests recorded history, and considers art and visual phenomena. ...

Tongues

Edited by Ayelet Tsabari, Eufemia Fantetti & Leonarda Carranza
Categories: Literary essays
Series: Essais Series

In this collection of deeply personal essays, twenty-six writers explore their connection with language, accents, and vocabularies, and contend with the ways these can be used as both bridge and weapon. ...

Permanent Revolution

By (author) Gail Scott
Foreword by Zoe Whittall
Afterword by Margaret Christakos
Categories: Literature: history and criticism

Finalist for the 2021 Grand Prix du livre de Montreal

"A writer may do as she pleases with her epoch. Rage accumulates."

From iconic feminist writer Gail Scott comes Permanent Revolution, a collection ...

Pictura

Edited by Juliana Pivato
Categories: Anthologies: general
Series: Essential Writers Series

How do you write about an artist who refused to be contained? Roy Kenzie Kiyooka was a Canadian artist and writer who gifted an extensive body of work that unfolded in nearly every dimension of media. ...

Alice Munro Country

Edited by J.R. (Tim) Struthers
Categories: Anthologies: general
Series: Essential Writers Series

This rich volume begins with a very good-humoured memoir by Munro’s renowned Canadian publisher, Douglas Gibson, followed by powerful autobiographical pieces by fiction writers, playwrights, poets, ...

Alice Munro Everlasting

Edited by J.R. (Tim) Struthers
Categories: Anthologies: general
Series: Essential Writers Series

This volume begins with a major new essay by renowned short story critic and theorist Charles E. May, followed by a major new essay by one of Munro’s most long-standing and most perceptive readers, ...

Are You Kidding Me?!

By (author) Lesley Crewe
Categories: Humour collections and anthologies

For the first time, bestselling novelist, columnist, and humorist Lesley Crewe’s finest columns are collected. Not merely razor sharp, Crewe’s wit is also ocean wide, taking in everything from the ...