Canadian Store (CAD)
You are currently shopping in our Canadian store. For orders outside of Canada, please switch to our international store. International and US orders are billed in US dollars.
This month we are pleased to publish eight new books, including the latest additions to our Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series, Queer Film Classics Series, History of Ideas Series, and Iberian and Latin American Cultures Series. Check out the complete list of March releases below!
Beyond Intimacy explores the relationship between art and justice through an analysis of works by three Mexican poets: Abigael Bohórquez, Myriam Moscona, and Gloria Gervitz. Establishing lyricism as an invitation to social dialogue, the book recognizes poetry’s potential for justice through the radicalization of the concept of intimacy.
Chatty Cathy, while not the first talking doll, was certainly the most widely known, and the only one elevated to idiom. The Decline and Fall of the Chatty Empire chronicles her later career and luridly illustrates the perils of reaching such linguistic heights with so very little to say.
Widely accepted at the time of the First World as a redemptive sacrifice on behalf of the nation, the soldier’s death is increasingly regarded as an unacceptable tragedy. Blending military history with the history of culture and mentalities, Dying for France shows how patriotic models of the soldier’s death have evolved over centuries.
In the Maelstrom is the first study of the Fourteenth Waffen-SS “Galicia” Division that covers both the military formation’s wartime experience and its postwar fate. It explores the lives of the Division’s veterans, controversial ongoing debates surrounding the motivation of recruits, and accusations of wartime criminality.
An iconic and controversial film, Midnight Cowboy is given its due as a classic of queer cinema. By shifting the perspective away from interpretations of Midnight Cowboy as homophobic, Jon Towlson argues for a new interpretation of the film as a proto-queer buddy movie and portrait of a friendship.
Religion and the Post-Revolutionary Mind demonstrates the central place religion occupied in the intellectual life of post-revolutionary France. Arthur McCalla gives nuance and context to the debates over the role of religion between Idéologues, Catholic Traditionalists, and Liberals.
Firmly rooted in frostbitten, fire-haunted landscapes that are at once psychological, emotional, and fiercely real, Patrick James Errington’s first poetry collection traces the brittle boundaries between presence and absence, keeping and killing, cruelty and tenderness.
While widely considered an endangered language, Yiddish has emerged as a vehicle for young people to engage with their heritage and identity, and as a site for creative renewal in the Jewish world and beyond. Yiddish Lives On explores diverse stories and strategies of resistance to language decline.
No comments yet.