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Eating Like a Mennonite
Do You Want to Be Happy and Write?
Casa Loma
Doing Harm
Prophets of Love
Dirty Money
Conscripted to Care
Africanism
Untimely Bodies, Untimely Aesthetics
Statesman of the Piano
Murmuration
By Maureen Hynes
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New Releases: September 2023
This month we are pleased to release 14 new titles, just in time for the back-to-school rush. Covering a broad range of historical and contemporary topics, from Arab history in the Middle Ages to the COVID-19 response, these new books have something for everyone to kick off the school year. We also have three new additions to our Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series!
Check out the complete list of September releases below!
Eating Like a Mennonite
Food and Community across Borders
Marlene Epp demonstrates that the meaning of Mennonite food lies within the multiple identities of the eater. Spanning the globe, from the nineteenth century to present day, Eating Like a Mennonite concludes that Mennonite food identities develop from adoptions, adaptations, and attitudes in diverse times and places.
Do You Want to Be Happy and Write?
Critical Essays on Michael Ondaatje
This new collection on Michael Ondaatje’s work – the first in twenty years – offers an innovative analysis of the author’s oeuvre from 1967 to the present. In twenty essays, contributors explore Ondaatje’s poetry, novels, and work in film, highlighting the transnational, postcolonial, and diasporic issues apparent in his writings.
Casa Loma
Millionaires, Medievalism, and Modernity in Toronto’s Gilded Age
The first scholarly book dedicated to this Canadian landmark, Casa Loma brings to light a wealth of hitherto unpublished archival images and documentation of the house’s visual and material culture, weaving together a textured account of the design, use, and life of this unique building over the course of the twentieth century.
Doing Harm
How the World’s Largest Psychological Association Lost Its Way in the War on Terror
Doing Harm recounts a critical chapter in the recent history of psychology: the field’s enmeshment in the “war on terror,” and the ensuing reckoning over do-no-harm ethics during times of threat. Eidelson exposes the challenges that the American Psychological Association faced when government agencies called upon health professionals to assist with their abusive and sometimes torturous detention and interrogation operations.
Prophets of Love
The Unlikely Kinship of Leonard Cohen and the Apostle Paul
Reimagining Leonard Cohen and the Apostle Paul as spiritual siblings, Prophets of Love offers an introduction to some of the latest scholarship on Paul, combatting centuries of Christian anti-Judaism, and sheds new light on the biblical worldviews and language underlying every line of Cohen’s poetry.
Maurice
Maurice (1987), a British film based on the novel by E.M. Forster, follows an Edwardian man’s journey to self-acceptance as someone who loves and desires men. Rebutting its critical reception, this volume champions the film as a sympathetic adaptation, making a case for its underappreciated positive depiction of gay love.
Dirty Money
Financial Crime in Canada
Financial crime in Canada remains a mystery: omnipresent, but we know little about its operation. This distinctive volume aims to stem in-, out-, and through-flows of vast sums of dirty money by enhancing Canada’s capacity to detect, disrupt, deter, investigate, and prosecute domestic financial criminals and transnational organized criminal organizations.
Conscripted to Care
Women on the Frontlines of the COVID-19 Response
Drawing on interviews and focus groups with nearly 200 women from a range of backgrounds and occupations – including healthcare workers, educators, and parents – Conscripted to Care reveals how structural inequalities put women on the frontlines of the COVID-19 response, yet with inadequate resources and little voice in decision-making.
Africanism
Blacks in the Medieval Arab Imaginary
Investigating the history of anti-Black racism in several canonical texts of Arabic culture, Africanism explores how Black people are perceived, imagined, and represented in the Arab imaginary from the Middle Ages until the nineteenth century in works of religion, literature, and history.
Untimely Bodies, Untimely Aesthetics
Temporality, Relationality, and Intimacy in the Cinema of the Berlin School
Untimely Bodies, Untimely Aesthetics examines the fluidity of time in eight contemporary films by focusing on characters who struggle for connection in an environment shaped by heteronormative temporality and intimacies. The book proposes a model for viewing non-normative relationality through the concepts of “untimeliness” and queer time.
Statesman of the Piano
Jazz, Race, and History in the Life of Lou Hooper
Jazz pianist Lou Hooper (1894–1977), Paul Robeson’s first accompanist and teacher to Oscar Peterson, came to prominence near the end of his life for his exceptional career. Statesman of the Piano makes his unpublished autobiography widely available for the first time, with commentary from historians, archivists, musicians, and cultural critics.
aboutness
Set against a break-up with God, insomniac nights, and smoke-filled skies, aboutness is by turns wry, performative, and sober. Threads of self-making are juxtaposed with an ever-unfolding present exposing the limits and possibilities of convergence. Haunted by the ghost of the text not realized, this is poetry that refuses to stand still.
Murmuration
Marianne’s Book
In a photograph by James Crombie, a murmuration of starlings takes the shape of a giant bird. This is the metaphor that best describes the collection: individual poems moving together in liquid formation and, for perhaps a singular moment, assuming the outline of the author, helplessly ever-changing.
Take the Compass
By Maureen HynesA strong theme of journeys is threaded through Take the Compass. In a sense, every poem is itself a journey – through cities and their outskirts, to rivers, forests, and graveyards. They travel in time into the troubled present, across decades into childhood, and into our perilous collective futures, seeking guides for these explorations.
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