Coach House Books (Imprint)

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No Place To Go

This book is Number One in addressing the politics of where we’re allowed to “go” in public. From pay potties to deserted alleyways, and in cities from London to San Francisco to Toronto, No Place ...

Hard To Do

Par (auteur) Kelli Maria Korducki
Catégories: Féminisme
Séries: Exploded Views

From Jane Austen to Taylor Swift, Hard to Do is a look at the surprising politics of romantic love and its dissolution. With perceptive, reported insights on the ways marriage and divorce are legislated, ...

Y

Par (auteur) Aaron Tucker
Catégories: Littérature générale

J. Robert Oppenheimer: reluctant father of the atomic bomb, enthusiastic lover of books, devoted husband, and philanderer. Engaging with the books he voraciously read, and especially the Bhagavad Gita, ...

The Doll's Alphabet

Par (auteur) Camilla Grudova
Catégories: Nouvelles

Short stories from an unholy marriage of Angela Carter, Sheila Heti, and H. P. Lovecraft.
Dolls, sewing machines, tinned foods, mirrors, malfunctioning bodies - by constantly reinventing ways to engage ...

Curry

Par (auteur) Naben Ruthnum
Catégories: Sociologie
Séries: Exploded Views

Curry is a dish that doesn’t quite exist, but, as this hilarious and sharp essay points out, a dish that doesn’t properly exist can have infinite, equally authentic variations. Following in the footsteps ...

The Island of Books

Par (auteur) Dominique Fortier
Traduit par Rhonda Mullins
Catégories: Littérature générale

A rich portrait of the beauty of words – painted by a 15th-century illiterate scribe.

A 15th-century portrait painter, grieving the sudden death of his lover, takes refuge at the monastery at Mont Saint-Michel, ...

Night & Ox

Par (auteur) Jordan Scott
Catégories: Poésie

bronchia think
form a bombsight
think periosteum singing
particle falconry workpiece
two lowcut hills seeking
what stone is
for body
is herd
alliterations

Night & Ox is a long poem working its interruptions to ...

Baloney

Par (auteur) Raymond Bock
Traduit par Pablo Strauss
Catégories: Anthologies

A Tristram Shandy–esque novella about failing memory and failed writing, from one of French Canada’s most exciting new voices.

A young, floundering author meets Robert ‘Baloney’ Lacerte, an older, ...

In on the Great Joke

Par (auteur) Laura Broadbent
Catégories: Poésie

In a blend of essayistic poetics, Broadbent wields alchemy, translation and necromancy to bring readers In on the Great Joke.

What do you get when you cross Lao Tzu and an application for a university ...

3 Summers

Par (auteur) Lisa Robertson
Catégories: Poésie

A grappling with time, form and embodiment.

Recite your poem to your aunt.
I threw myself to the ground.
Where were you in the night?
In a school among the pines.
What was the meaning of the dream?

Organs, ...