Literary Nonfiction. How can a country at peace suddenly be plunged into war? What compels hitherto peaceable citizens to take up arms and kill one another? In FOR WANT OF A FIR TREE: UKRAINE UNDONE, Frédérick Lavoie tells Artyom, a four-year-old ch...
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Fiction. African & African American Studies. In the taxi rides you're about to take, you'll be in the company of some classic drivers and of a perspicacious and sharp-eyed passenger, the writer and broadcaster Stanley Péan. Veteran translator David ...
Fiction. Women's Studies. Translated by Alexandra Andresen Leitao. REBELLION is Portuguese literary celebrity Cristina Carvalho's international debut. Born a rebel, Lena escapes her provincial existence and heads for Lisbon as a young woman to make ...
Fiction. Jewish Studies. Translated by Judith Woodsworth. With one side in Mile End and the other in Outremont, Hutchison Street is inhabited by characters from many different backgrounds, including a community of Hasidim and a writer whose newest p...
Fiction. LGBTQIA Studies. Middle Eastern Studies. Nadia Eid doesn't know it yet, but she's about to change her life. It's the end of the '80s and she hasn't seen her Palestinian father since he left Montreal years ago to take a job in Egypt, promisi...
Fiction. Asian & Asian American Studies. Professor Nada Marjanovic has spent more than twenty years translating an obscure Sanskrit text on the vetala, a parasitic, vampire-like being that possesses the bodies of his victims. When her mentor and col...
Fiction. Women's Studies. Morgan Turner's grief over her sister's brutal murder has become a rut, an everyday horror she is caught in along with her estranged parents and chilly older brother. In search of a way out, she delves the depths of a facto...
Fiction. Asian & Asian American Studies. Xue Yiwei's life has been marked by that of the legendary Montréal surgeon Norman Bethune, who died in China in the cause of Communism. Like other Chinese of his generation — the generation that has turned Ch...
Literary Nonfiction. Women's Studies. Photography. In her new book, the feminist author Martine Delvaux links her own experience as a writer with that of the American photographer and installation artist Nan Goldin, whose life has been marked by the...
Fiction. Noir. Worlds collide when a naïve young heiress takes a tumble for a bootlegger with a murderous temper and his business partner falls in love with Montreal, the way Americans are prone to do. One world war has ended and a second is in the ...
Drama. Women's Studies. Mavis Gallant's only play, WHAT IS TO BE DONE?, which premiered at Toronto's Tarragon Theatre on November 11, 1982, is a comedy that opens in 1942, in the heat of the battle against Fascism, when it was possible for Canadians...