***SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 STEPHEN LEACOCK MEMORIAL MEDAL FOR HUMOUR* *LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE* *LONGLISTED FOR THE FOREST OF READING EVERGREEN AWARD* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 ALBERTA LITERARY AWARDS GEORGES BUGNET AWARD FOR FICTION*“A sharp, funny take on capitalism, climate change, and our lifelong mission to be loved.” —PeopleA funny, poignant, and page-turning debut novel that skewers billionaire-funded space travel i...

**LONGLISTED FOR THE 2017 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZEWinner of the 2018 Western Canada Jewish Book Awards—Fiction—The Diamond Foundation PrizeNominated for the 2018 OLA Evergreen AwardEnergized, irreverent, novelistic stories full of longing, strange humour, and the complications of human entanglement from Governor General’s Award nominee Deborah Willis**The characters in these thirteen masterful and engaging stories exist on the edge of danger, where landscapes...

"The book aims to bring these stoic portraits of black soldiers to life . . . It's what Willis calls the African American experience, as well as resilience." — The GuardianThough both the Union and Confederate armies excluded African American men from their initial calls to arms, many of the men who eventually served were black. Simultaneously, photography culture blossomed—marking the Civil War as the first conflict to be extensively docu...

Vanishing and Other Stories explores emotional and physical absences, the ways in which people leave, are left, and whether or not it's ever possible to move on. Readers will encounter a skinny ice-cream scooper named Nina Simone, a vanishing visionary of social utopia, a French teacher who collects fiancés, and a fortune-telling mother who fails to predict the heartbreak of her own daughter. The characters in this collection will linger in the imagination, proving that nothing is...

The essays in this book chart how women’s profound and turbulent experiences of migration have been articulated in writing, photography, art and film. As a whole, the volume gives an impression of a wide range of migratory events from women’s perspectives, covering the Caribbean Diaspora, refugees and slavery through the various lenses of politics and war, love and family.The contributors, which include academics and artists, offer both personal and critical points of view on the ar...

An incredible treasure trove of more than 150 illustrations detailing a small nation of African Americans prepared to make their mark on America

The Real Jamie Dornan. This book is your ultimate resource for Jamie Dornan. Here you will find the most up-to-date 52 Success Facts, Information, and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Jamie Dornan's Early life, Career and Personal life right away.A quick look inside: Shadows in the Sun (2009 film) - Plot, 2014 British Academy Television Awards - Leading Actor, Marie Antoinette (2006 film) -...

Women and Migration(s) II draws together contributions from scholars and artists showcasing the breadth of intersectional experiences of migration, from diaspora to internal displacement. Building on conversations initiated in Women and Migration: Responses in Art and History, this edited volume features a range of written styles, from memoir to artists’ statements to journalistic and critical essays. The collection shows how women’s experiences of migration have been articulated through a...

Through 150 striking color photographs, Obama: The Historic Campaign in Photographs charts the road to Barack Obama's nomination as the first African American to lead the presidential ticket of a major party. Announcing his campaign in Springfield, Illinois, on February 10, 2007, Obama stood on the grounds of the Old State Capitol, where Abraham Lincoln delivered his famous "House Divided" speech against slavery in 1858. During an eighteen-month campaign, from the snows of Iowa to...

As a young South African woman of about twenty, Saartjie Baartman, the so-called “Hottentot Venus,” was brought to London and placed on exhibit in 1810. Clad in the Victorian equivalent of a body stocking, and paraded through the streets and on stage in a cage she became a human spectacle in London and Paris. Baartman’s distinctive physique became the object of ridicule, curiosity, scientific inquiry, and desire until and after her premature death. The figure of Sarah Baartman was reduced ...

**TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY EDITIONThe acclaimed collection of Black photography, now featuring more than one hundred photographs from twenty-first-century artists, fundamentally redefines our understanding of American history.“If a picture truly is worth a thousand words, then Deborah Willis has given us nothing less than an epic history of Homeric proportions. Taken together, Willis’s magnificent gathering of images accompanied by her powerful narrative overturns many comm...

Featuring more than 100 artists, this landmark book charts the intricate connections between photography and the Black Arts MovementThe Black Arts Movement brought together writers, filmmakers, and visual artists who were exploring ways of using art to advance civil rights and Black self-determination. This book examines the vital role of photography in the evolution of the Black Arts Movement, revealing how photographs operated across art, community building, jour...