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By Sarah De Leeuw. 2017
A collection of personal essays, haunted by loss, evoking turbulent physical and emotional Canadian landscapes. Sarah de Leeuw's creative non-fiction…
captures strange inconsistencies and aberrations of human behaviour, urging us to be observant and aware. The essays are wide in scope and expose what--and who--goes missing. 2017. Uniform title: Essays.By Martin Warner. 1999
These essays offer reflection on the process of revelation and response. The title essay points not only to Mary's experience,…
but also to our own progress along the pilgrimage of faith, to our aptitude for reception of God's self-disclosure, and the many different levels, ways, and contexts in which we recognise and receive it. (Given by Guild of Church Braillists) 1999.By Irvin Studin. 2006
Studin approached leading Canadians from all walks of life - politics, the civil service, academia, literature, journalism, business, the arts…
- from both official language groups, and from all regions of the country, as well as from the Canadian diaspora, to tell us what they believe defines us. The answers to "What is a Canadian?" range from "someone who crosses the road to get to the middle" to "the citizen of a country badly in need of growing up" to "adaptable. To illustrate, consider the depth and breadth of the Canadian woman's wardrobe". 2006.By John Fowles, Jan Relf. 1998
A collection of non-fiction writing from John Fowles which includes articles written for magazines; book reviews from "The New York…
Times Book Review" and the "Irish Press"; various forewords and introductions; a tribute to William Golding; and some autobiographical pieces.The author, editor, and literary critic offers his William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in the History of American Civilization, which…
he delivered at Harvard in 1994. In a prologue and three essays, the author reflects on his experiences, especially in the field of literature, before, during, and after World War II. He discusses contemporary writers and literary trends of the time. 1995.By Woody Allen. 1975
By Calvin Trillin. 1985
Irreverent reflections on politics, bicycle accidents, investment opportunities (such as Publishers Clearing House Sweepstakes), foreign relations, and other crucial matters.…
Trillin claims he is "firmly committed to the proposition that whoever is in power is exceedingly silly." Some strong language. 1985.By Rudy Wiebe, Smaro Kamboureli. 2016
Collects forty years of essays and speeches that Wiebe crafted over his many years as an author. Wiebe provides a…
look behind the curtain, revealing his thought processes as he worked on many of his books. Throughout this selection, he dissects controversies that arose after publication of his early novels, meditates on words and their inherent power, explores the great Canadian North and the Canadian body politic, reckons with his family history and Mennonite faith, all while providing an engaging and enlightening commentary. 2016. Uniform title: Essays.By Susan Sontag. 2018
This collection features two decades of indispensable work by America's most important essayist--more than forty longer and shorter pieces that…
illustrate a deeply felt, kaleidoscopic array of interests, passions, observations, and ideas. 2018.By Stephen Henighan. 2002
A look at the evolution of Canadian writing in the 1990's, when it became a commercial enterprise, through the eyes…
of one Canadian writer. Topics include the Giller Prize, Toronto-centrism, and the literary languages of the Americas. 2002.By Marilynne Robinson. 2012
Pulitzer Prize winner and author of "Gilead" presents ten essays, six previously published and four new, on varying topics. In…
the title piece Robinson reminisces about growing up in Idaho and compares her experiences to the perceptions of being raised in the West. 2012.By Donna Bailey Nurse. 2003
By Camille Paglia. 1994
Essays on feminism and American culture since the 1960s. Paglia argues for a "revamped feminism" that removes barriers to women's…
advance, but not at the price of special protections for women. She opposes state regulation of art, of abortion, of prostitution, and of drug use. Strong language. 1994.By Susan Sontag. 2018
A collection of Susan Sontag's most important critical writings from 1972 to 1980. One of America's leading essayists, Sontag's writings…
are commentaries on the relation between moral and aesthetic ideas, discussing the works of Antonin Artaud, Leni Riefenstahl, Elias Canetti, Walter Benjamin, and others. 2018.By Amos Oz, N. R. M De Lange. 1995
Eighteen essays written between the early 1960s and the late 1970s consider Israeli policies toward the Palestinians and the revival…
of Hebrew, both as a spoken language and as literature. Oz examines the ethical dimensions of achieving peace within Israel and with the Arab world. 1995. Uniform title: Essays.By Rafaële Germain. 2016
Et si nous avions oublié les vertus de l'oubli? L'histoire de l'humanité, jusqu'à très récemment, a été une vaste entreprise…
d'archivage - une lutte contre la faillibilité de la mémoire humaine et les mâchoires oblitératrices de l'Histoire. Or, depuis quelques décennies, nous nous sommes dotés de technologies nous permettant de ne plus jamais oublier, voire de ne plus pouvoir oublier. Il y a de quoi se réjouir et c'est bien ce que nous faisons, en nous rendant plus inoubliables que jamais sur les réseaux sociaux et dans nos vies quotidiennes de plus en plus numérisées. Pourtant notre mémoire collective semble de plus en plus dispersée, de moins en moins enracinée. Et si nous avions perdu quelque chose en route? À travers de courtes adresses à son père, Georges-Hébert Germain, dont la mémoire s'est progressivement éteinte avant la fin, Rafaële Germain pose ces questions, et cherche des réponses. Il sera question de trains multicolores, d'une femme en sari mauve et d'un escalier roulant, de moines copistes et de Néandertaliens, et du sentiment d'appartenance à une époque donnée. De la transmission, aussi, et du besoin d'entretenir ses racines. 2016.By Jan Struther. 1938
In this collection of essays and sketches, part of the charm lies in the portraits of a vanished world -…
that of the upper-middle-class, lower-middle-aged Englishwoman with nannies, servants and children at boarding schools. 1938.By Marie Laberge. 2015
" Quels verbes sont essentiels si on veut explorer à fond celui de vivre? Il n'y avait que Marie Laberge…
pour avoir l'audace de poser la question et oser chercher dans l'action du verbe la définition de l'intensité. Avec cet essai original qui marque ses quarante ans d'écriture, la romancière expose ce qui lui semble indispensable pour amener le verbe et la vie à son sommet. Elle analyse ce qui fait de chacun de nous les vivants que nous sommes, contradictions et harmonies incluses. Elle ne se contente pas de disserter, elle fouille les verbes à fond et elle se mouille en passant en revue la place que chacun dentre eux prend dans sa vie personnelle. Quiconque a lu et aimé les romans de Marie Laberge y trouvera des clés pour mieux comprendre son univers intérieur si riche. Jamais moralisatrices, dune honnêteté réjouissante, ces réflexions à la fois sensées, justes et percutantes apportent un éclairage inusité sur cette écrivaine de fiction qui réussit à aborder ce nouveau genre sans pour autant perdre sa verve et son humour. " -- 4e de couv.By Martha Gellhorn. 1983
By Michel Onfray. 2005
Trois siècles après le triomphe des " Lumières " et un siècle après la loi de séparation de l'Église et…
de l'État, le politique et le religieux sont encore inextricablement mêlés dans nos sociétés prétendument laïques et démocratiques. Partout, observe Michel Onfray, Dieu, jadis chassé par la porte, revient par la fenêtre... 2005.