U Of R Press imprint: 37 books
Reading from Behind
A Cultural Analysis of the Anus
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
Since we all have one and use it every day, why is it that people squirm when the anus is mentioned? In Reading from Behind, Jonathan Allan addresses this question in a playful, yet scholarly exploration of everything from porn to poetry, from Brokeback Mountain to Myra Breckinridge, democratizing the anus as a site of necessity and as a location of pleasure.
Fists upon a Star
A Memoir of Love, Theatre, and Escape from McCarthyism
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
Fists upon a Star is the hard-hitting memoir of Florence James, a pioneering American theatre director, whose devastating experience with McCarthyism led her to flee to Canada. The memoir is as epic as America itself. Born in 1892 in the frontier society of Idaho, she became a suffragette in New York...
Antigone Undone
Juliette Binoche, Anne Carson, Ivo van Hove, and the Art of Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2018
In 2015 Will Aitken journeyed to Luxembourg for the rehearsals and premiere of Anne Carson’s translation of Sophokles’ 5th-century BCE tragedy Antigone, starring Juliette Binoche and directed by theatrical sensation Ivo van Hove. In watching the play, he became awestruck with the plight of...
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An Excerpt from Deadmonton: Crime Stories from Canada's Murder City
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
Two young girls take an after-school shortcut in a wooded ravine. One walks off, seemingly in a trance, and is never again seen alive. This short ebook is an excerpt from a book by journalist Pamela Roth: Deadmonton: Crime Stories from Canada's Murder City. In Deadmonton, Roth takes a look at some...
Northern Trader
The Last Days of the Fur Trade
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
With previously unpublished photographs, this new edition of Northern Trader is a vivid personal memoir and valuable primary account of the last days of the fur trade. Harold Kemp recounts the routines and rhythms of that long-lost way of life and paints a portrait of the north as a "vast region...
by Trevor Herriot
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2016
Towards a Prairie Atonement addresses this question by enlisting the help of a Metis Elder and revisiting the history of one corner of the Great Plains. Set on a prairie remnant seven thousand years old, this book's lyrical blend of personal narrative, prairie history, imagery, and argument begins...
Hell and Damnation
A Sinner's Guide to Eternal Torment
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2019
In Hell and Damnation, bestselling author Marq de Villiers takes readers on a journey into the strange richness of the human imaginings of hell, deep into time and across many faiths, back into early Egypt and the 5,000-year-old Mesopotamian epic of Gilgamesh. This urbane, funny, and deeply researched...
Virgin Envy
The Cultural (In)Significance of the Hymen
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016
Contributors to Virgin Envy examine everything from the medieval romance to Bollywood films to True Blood and Twilight, to destabilize the many "certainties" about sexual purity. In particular, the hymen is called into question. How is virginity determined for those without a hymen? How...
Children of the Broken Treaty
Canada's Lost Promise and One Girl's Dream (New Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2017
In this new edition of Charlie Angus's award-winning and bestselling book, he brings us up-to-date on the unrelenting epidemic of youth suicides in Indigenous communities, the Thunder Bay inquiry into the shocking deaths of young people there, the powerful impact of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's...
Human on the Inside
Unlocking the Truth About Canada's Prisons
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
In Human on the Inside Gary Garrison takes readers out of their comfort zones and into some of Canada's most notorious and violent prisons, introducing us to a menacing yet vibrant subculture of inmates, guards, and staff. Through personal stories, Garrison illuminates a criminal justice system that...
Deadmonton
Crime Stories from Canada's Murder City
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
In Deadmonton, former Sun reporter Pamela Roth takes a look at some of the city's most notorious murders, both solved and unsolved. With testimony from victims' relatives, these stories serve as a reminder of the horror that humans are capable of inflicting upon one another, and highlight the pain...
Otto & Daria
A Wartime Journey Through No Man's Land
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
A poignant memoir of lives cleaved by war, Otto and Daria is the first-hand account of Eric (or Otto) Koch. As a Jewish refugee from WWII Germany, Otto first left his country for England, and later arrived in Canada, where he was for a time imprisoned in a camp. The counterpoint to Otto's recollections...
The Education of Augie Merasty
A Residential School Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2015
"Heartbreaking and important… brings into dramatic focus why we need reconciliation." - James Daschuk, author of Clearing the Plains This memoir offers a courageous and intimate chronicle of life in a residential school. Now a retired fisherman and trapper, the author was one of an estimated...
Where Once They Stood
Newfoundland's Rocky Road towards Confederation
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2019
Coming on the 70th anniversary of Newfoundland joining Confederation, as well as the 150th anniversary of its first rejection of Canada, Where Once They Stood challenges popular notions that those who voted against Confederation in 1869 and for union with Canada in 1948 were uninformed, incompetent,...