Prose: Non-Fiction

Selected by editor Mireille Silcoff, the 2023 edition of Best Canadian Essays showcases the best Canadian nonfiction writing published in 2021.Our ...

In Seven Stages: A Flying Trap Around the World (1891) is a travel narrative by American journalist Elizabeth Bisland. When Blys journeyinspired by...

Ariel (1922) is an essay by José Enrique Rodó. Originally published in Spanish in 1900, Ariel was translated into English just five years after the...

The last major interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono, conducted by New York Times bestselling author David Sheff, featuring a new introduction th...

A fiercely personal and startlingly universal essay collection about the mysteries of gender and desire, of identity and class, of the stories we t...

A fiercely personal and startlingly universal essay collection about the mysteries of gender and desire, of identity and class, of the stories we t...

These highly original essays illuminate Virginia Woolf and a selection of other twentieth-century writers and artists. Based on detailed research a...

My fellow irrelevant Australians. Never, in the history of our democracy, has Australian political life been in such a parlous state. There are peo...

The Spirit of Japan (1916) is a speech by Rabindranath Tagore. Published after he received the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature, The Spirit of Japan ...

Art honours the world, and criticism honours art, even perhaps especially when the critic sets out to destroy. The bad review is hardly ever writ...

Imagine a life of adventure, set in the world of second-hand books: finding a valuable first edition gathering dust on a Parisian pub shelf, openin...