House Of Anansi Press imprint: 152 books
The Return of History
Conflict, Migration, and Geopolitics in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2016
#1 National Bestseller
Part of the CBC Massey Lectures Series
In 1989, as the Berlin Wall crumbled and the Cold War dissipated, the American political commentator Francis Fukuyama wrote a famous essay, entitled “The End of History.” Fukuyama argued that the demise of confrontation...
In Search of A Better World
A Human Rights Odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2017
A work of memoir, history, and a call to action, In Search of a Better World, the 2017 CBC Massey Lecture, is a powerful and essential work on the major human rights struggles of our times.
In February of 2017, Amnesty International released their Annual Report for 2016 to 2017, concluding...
The Triumph of Narrative: Storytelling in the Age of Mass Culture
Storytelling in the Age of Mass Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2011
Narrative has been central to human life for millennia, and the twentieth century has been preeminently the age of the story. Mass culture and mass leisure have enabled us to spend far more time absorbing stories, real and imaginary, than any of our ancestors. Whether or not this has been to our benefit...
by Karen Solie
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2011
Karen Solie launched to prominence with her first collection of poems, Short Haul Engine (2001), finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize and winner of many other awards and citations. She continued her upward trajectory with Modern and Normal (2005), and is now considered one of Canada's best poets....
by David Sharpe
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2019
Toronto’s Rochdale College began as an experiment in living and learning, and ended as a symbol of the flower-child sixties, a financial and social controversy. In his well-researched and entertaining account, David Sharpe tells the fascinating story of the college’s seven-year rise and fall.
Sharpe...
by Ken Babstock
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
Shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Trillium Book Award
Marooned in the shiftless, unnamed space between a map of the world and a world of false maps, the poems in Methodist Hatchet cling to what’s necessary from each, while attempting to sing their own bewilderment. Carolinian...
Spin
Politics and Marketing in a Divided Age
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2014
In the tradition of Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers and Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking Fast and Slow, Clive Veroni’s Spin is a fascinating investigation of how the techniques of political strategists are being applied to the world of consumer marketing.
In the early twentieth century political...
Staking Claims to a Continent
John A. Macdonald, Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, and the Making of North America
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2016
Three political leaders presided over the reshaping of the North American continent during the fiery 1860s. Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln were both born in Kentucky, Davis in June 1808 and Lincoln the following February. John A. Macdonald was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in January 1815. All were...
Are Men Obsolete?
The Munk Debate on Gender
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2014
For the first time in history, will it be better to be a woman than a man in the upcoming century? The twelfth semi-annual Munk Debate pits Hanna Rosin and Maureen Dowd against Caitlin Moran and Camille Paglia to debate one of the biggest socio-economic phenomena of our time — the relative decline...
by Jacqueline Park
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
A sweeping saga of intrigue and romance set during the Italian Renaissance and told through the eyes of Grazia dei Rossi, a young Jewish woman torn between duty and forbidden romance, who wins our hearts with her recorded secrets of love.
Grazia dei Rossi, private secretary to the world-renowned...
Winter: Five Windows on the Season
Five Windows on the Season
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
The 2011 CBC Massey Lectures celebrates fifty years with bestselling author, essayist, cultural observer, and famed New Yorker contributor Adam Gopnik, whose subject is winter -- the season, the space, the cycle. Gopnik takes us on an intimate tour of the artists, poets, composers, writers, explorers,...
Blood
The Stuff of Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2013
In this year’s CBC Massey Lectures, bestselling author Lawrence Hill offers a provocative examination of the scientific and social history of blood, and on the ways that it unites and divides us today.
Blood runs red through every person’s arteries and fulfills the same functions in every...
The Universe Within
From Quantum to Cosmos
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
The most anticipated nonfiction book of the season, this year's Massey Lectures is a visionary look at the way the human mind can shape the future by world-renowned physicist Neil Turok.
Every technology we rely on today was created by the human mind, seeking to understand the universe around...
by Mark Lavorato
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2014
From one of Canada’s brightest emerging writers comes an unforgettable tale of love, art, and life. Set in the vividly imagined streets of 1920s Montreal, Serafim and Claire is the beautiful, moving, and compulsively readable story of two dreamers whose worlds become forever connected.
Claire...