Talonbooks: 174 books

In tribute to the surrealist narrative techniques of André Breton and Robert Desnos, Minor Episodes documents the serial adventures of Minor, the ubiquitous "everymogul" who embodies the economic one percent and keeps musically erotic quixotics on tap. Having entered a "rent in time"...

Rogue Cells / Carbon Harbour resumes The Chaos! Quincunx novel series and presents two ironically dystopic visions of the speculative future. In Rogue Cells, Oober Mann emerges from his cryobed on high alert in New Haudenosaunee, a "First" nation at war with the mysterious territory...

Since the debut of Garry Thomas Morse’s first collection deemed “experimental fiction,” Death in Vancouver has drawn fervid enthusiasm from many West Coast writers and artists. Set in Vancouver, B.C., this gathering of stories superimposes aspects of literary classics on local urban space to express...

Set in Calgary during World War II, five women work for the war effort while their men are away. Cast of 5 women.

A personal, idiosyncratic tour of the collective work of art we call Canada. “The Global Village” is nothing more than Canadian culture writ large – and here is the guide to Canadian style. John MacLachlan Gray’s tour-de-force answer to Hugh MacLennan’s Two Solitudes is full of wit, insight, and breathtaking discoveries about ourselves and the world.

Now in one volume, these three books (A Trip Around Lake Erie, A Trip Around Lake Huron, and A Trip Around Lake Ontario – published in the 1980s) have become funnier, sadder, more inter-connected, more spiritual, more sure of themselves. They sparkle from beginning to end with a new depth and resonance.

Go Figure is the hauntingly beautiful tale of a Montreal couple alienated from each other after suffering the miscarriage of twin girls. Mammy, the wife of Rémi Vavasseur, has gone away. Not because she no longer loves him but because she no longer loves herself. She is criss-crossing Europe and...

Upon graduation from an educational institution that provides free room and board and is dedicated to freshman tutorials in applied criminology conducted by its post-graduate students, Gordon aims to build an innovative business with his former cellmate Carl. Then there’s the question of pregnant,...

Scobie illuminates bpNichol’s relationship to Dadaism, contemporary French literary theory and the writing of Gertrude Stein, and argues strongly for Nichol’s importance as a writer of fiction. Other titles in The New Canadian Criticism Series: ABC of Reading the TRG Timothy...

A collection of eighteen original essays on contemporary Canadian theatre by scholars and drama specialists in Canada, Great Britain, Europe, Australia, Hungary, and Japan. The international scope of the volume, reflected in its co-editors (Sherrill Grace from Canada, Albert-Reiner Glaap from Germany), confirms the new importance of Canadian plays on the world stage.

Representing a substantial collection of bpNichol’s critical writing from the mid-1960s to the year of his death, 1988, Meanwhile puts him on the vanguard of Canadian literature and critical theory. This collection is essential to our sense of Nichol not only as a writer, but also as a person of exemplary generosity, imagination and intellectual range.

This volume is a collection of 38 pieces – essays, poems, extracts – unified by a combination of the playful, primitive aesthetic of literary modernism with the anti-authoritarian, anarchist praxis of radical democratic politics. This bi-polar sensibility permeates the work of Jerry Zaslove, to whom the book is dedicated.

These essays explore the troubling relationship between narrative meaning and representations of violence within Findley’s novels. Although Findley clearly admires the modernist texts which appear in his own fiction, his novels also reveal how the modernist search for metaphoric unity and meaning...

Crammed with humour, sorrow, folly, bravery and the richness of the everyday, Tulchinsky’s fictional treatment of the Lapinsky family and its remarkable fortunes-through the pivotal moment of the 1933 Toronto race riot, the Great Depression, the rise of fascism and its attendant social tensions, World War II, and the post-war era-brings to life the character of an entire community.