The Empathy Exams of health anxiety: a personal, literary, and cultural examination of hypochondria from Kafka to Seinfeld.

A free-wheeling philosophical essay, Hypochondria combines incisive contemporary ...

From translator Saskia Vogel and one of Sweden's most loved authors, an essayistic memoir about women and food

Bread and Milk traces a life through food from carefully restricted low-fat margarine to ...

A stolen sign, ‘No Jews Live Here,’ kept John Lorinc’s Hungarian Jewish family alive during the Holocaust.

From pre-war Budapest to post-war Toronto, journalist John Lorinc unspools four generations ...

For bpNichol’s 80th birthday, a selection of 80 pieces from his 1980s notebooks, an astounding trove of never-before-seen work.

One of Canada’s most beloved poets, bpNichol (1944–1988), left a huge ...

Cowboy erotica meets Kathy Acker in this smart, raunchy look at a queer sexual awakening

Steacy Easton grew up Mormon, queer, and Autistic in the West. This book traces the people and spaces that made ...

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Martha Baillie’s richly layered response to her mother’s passing, ...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE QWF MAVIS GALLANT PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION

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From LAMBDA Literary Award winner Sina Queyras, Rooms offers a peek into the defining spaces a young queer ...

A profound meditation on race, inheritance, and queer mothering at the end of the world.

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In a letter to her six-year-old daughter, Julietta Singh ventures toward a tender ...

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Fairy tales shape how we see the world, so what happens when you identify ...

YOLT explores two artists’ lives before and after transitions: from female to male, and from near-dead to alive.

The unspoken promise was that in our second life we would become the question to every ...