Essays

From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad comes a powerful reckoning with what it means to live in the heart of an Empire which doesn’t consider you fully human....

A poetic and intimate essay collection on the lives of plants and their entanglement with our human worldsA seed slips beyond a garden wall. A seaweed drifts through an ocean....

Essays at the Crossroads of RaceTwo-time Booker Shortlistee and internationally bestselling author Esi Edugyan delivers a searing analysis of the relationship between race and art.History is a construction. What happens...

A memoir of a fundamentalist Muslim childhood and of redefining faith, belonging and family in adulthood This is the story of a child raised in Canada by parents who embraced...

A Pathway to ReconciliationReconciliation belongs to all of us. In this book, drawing from the lessons that he has learned along his pathway from residential school to the leader of...

Dazzling collection of personal essays from internationally acclaimed First Nations Canadian writer Billy-Ray Belcourt, who mines his own personal history to reconcile the world he was born into with the...

Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs In The Future Is Disabled, Leah Laksmi Piepzna-Samarasinha asks some provocative questions: What if the majority of people will be disabled in the near...