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More Lost Massey Lectures
This second anthology of early CBC Massey Lectures features the work of George Grant, Claude Levi-Strauss, Frank Underhill, and Barbara Ward.
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{"id":6812116385851,"title":"Moving Targets","handle":"moving-targets","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe companion volume to the recently reissued \u003ci\u003eSecond Words\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMoving Targets\u003c\/i\u003e is an essential collection of critical prose by Margaret Atwood, now available in a handsome new A List edition. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe most precious treasure of this collection is that it gives us the rich back-story and diverse range of influences on Margaret Atwood’s work. 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Moving Targets
Moving Targets is an expansive and essential collection of critical prose by legendary novelist, poet, and essayist Margaret Atwood.
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Mr Selden's Map of China
Mr Selden’s Map of China unlocks the secrets behind a recently discovered map of China like no other of its time.
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Necessary Illusions
Noam Chomsky considers how a democratized media could give us more meaningful participation in social and political life.
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He has published numerous book chapters and journal articles, and is author of \u003cem\u003eMyth and Philosophy in Platonic Dialogues\u003c\/em\u003e, and is translator of Behrouz Boochani’s book \u003cem\u003eNo Friend but the Mountains: Writing From Manus Prison\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","ContributorRole_1":"Translated by","Contributor_0":"Boochani, Behrouz","Contributor_1":"Tofighian, Omid","Description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of Australia’s richest literary award, \u003ci\u003eNo Friend but the Mountains \u003c\/i\u003eis Kurdish-Iranian journalist and refugee Behrouz Boochani’s account of his detainment on Australia’s notorious Manus Island prison. Composed entirely by text message, this work represents the harrowing experience of stateless and imprisoned refugees and migrants around the world.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 2013, Kurdish-Iranian journalist Behrouz Boochani was illegally detained on Manus Island, a refugee detention centre off the coast of Australia. He has been there ever since. This book is the result. Laboriously tapped out on a mobile phone and translated from the Farsi. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is a voice of witness, an act of survival. A lyric first-hand account. A cry of resistance. A vivid portrait of five years of incarceration and exile. Winner of the Victorian Prize for Literature, \u003ci\u003eNo Friend but the Mountains \u003c\/i\u003eis an extraordinary account — one that is disturbingly representative of the experience of the many stateless and imprisoned refugees and migrants around the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Our government jailed his body, but his soul remained that of a free man.” — From the Foreword by Man Booker Prize–winning author Richard Flanagan\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781487006839","excerpt_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781487006839\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Height":"9","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"Anansi International","NumberOfPages":"416","OtherText_Accolades_0":"No Friend but the Mountains by Behrouz Boochani will always belong to the canon of literature written under great duress and courage. This unique book should be read by all who care about the stories of our time. No Friend but the Mountains reminds us that no matter how different we may be from one another, whether it’s the colour of our skin, the god we pray to, where we are born, or where we call home, that we have words, language, and literature in common. I celebrate the courage of Boochani, who has pursued this ideal, this love of writing, and the faith in words as a tool to inform, to be a doorway to new and unexpected worlds, challenge tyrannies, and seek justice.","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Jennifer Clement","OtherText_Accolades_0_Src":"Jennifer Clement","OtherText_Accolades_1":"Under atrocious conditions [Behrouz Boochani] has managed to write and publish a record of his experiences (experiences yet to be concluded), a record that will certainly leave his jailers gnashing their teeth . . . No Friend but the Mountains provides a wholly engrossing account of the first four years that Boochani spent on Manus, up to the time when the prison camp was closed and the prisoners resettled elsewhere on the island. Just as absorbing is his analysis of the system that reigns in the camp, a system imposed by the Australian authorities but autonomous in the sense that it holds the jailers as well as the prisoners in its grip . . . [No Friend but the Mountains is] the absorbing record of a life-transforming episode whose effects on his inner self the writer is still trying to plumb.","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"J.M. Coetzee","OtherText_Accolades_2":"No Friend but the Mountains deserves a place beside some of the world’s most famous prison narratives and testaments about living in a time of genocide, slavery, and state-sponsored oppression. It brings to mind various literary siblings: the ways in which The Diary of Anne Frank sketched the life of a young girl in the period leading up to her murder in the Holocaust; how Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl painted Harriet Jacobs’s life as a fugitive in the United States; the means by which One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn showed the daily oppression of a man living in a Soviet gulag; how The Autobiography of Malcolm X charted the movement of a man through prison life and into militancy as the most famous Black Muslim in America; and how Martin Luther King Jr. condemned arbitrary imprisonment and racial segregation in The Letter from Birmingham Jail . . . In a time of mounting hysteria and paranoia with regard to the arrival of migrants in developed countries, Behrouz Boochani reminds us that 68.5 million displaced people in the world today are the same as us. We could be them, tomorrow.","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Lawrence Hill","OtherText_Accolades_2_Src":"Lawrence Hill","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAN INTERNATIONAL SENSATION:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eBoochani’s story went global when \u003cem\u003eNo Friend but the Mountains\u003c\/em\u003e won the Victorian Prize for Literature, Australia’s richest literary prize. The book won both the prize for nonfiction, as well as the overall winner for literature. The publisher had to make a special request that his work be eligible, despite the fact that he is essentially stateless. His win is a clear political statement of the Australian literary community’s objection to its government’s continued exile of Boochani and other refugees on Manus Island and Nauru Island, the two notorious immigration immigration detention facilities.\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nAustralian sales are around 30K now (as of April 2019) but are projected to reach 50K before the end of the year. Rights have been sold in the following territories: Homeward in Taiwan, Add Editore in Italy, Random House in Germany, Picador UK, Hugo in France, Al Arabi in Egypt, Leya in Portugal and Jurgen Maas Uitgeverij in the Netherlands. In the coming months the agent expects to conclude deals in Japan, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, Brazil, Lithuania, Sri Lanka, Denmark, Greece and Sweden. Film rights have been sold to Aurora Australia.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTIMELY SUBJECT MATTER — REFUGEES AND FREE PRESS UNDER ATTACK:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe detainment of refugees is a hot-button issue. Boochani’s rare insider’s first-person account is beautifully and poetically told, and symbolic of the realities and circumstances tens of thousands of migrants are living in today. In addition, the reason for his flight from Iran — escaping persecution as a journalist — is more and more common with the increase of autocratic nations: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2019\/feb\/03\/observer-view-on-assad-regime-murder-marie-colvin?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRECENT TALK OF REOPENING THE DETENTION CENTRES:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe situation on Manus and Nauru Islands will continue to be in the news throughout the year. On February 13, 2019, the Australian prime minister, Scott Morrison, threatened to reopen the Manus Island detention centre after a medical evacuation bill — the new legislation sets out the conditions by which sick people on Nauru and Manus can be transferred to Australia for medical treatment. In the event there is medical advice from two or more treating doctors that a person needs to be evacuated, the home affairs minister has grounds for refusal.) passed in the Senate.\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nHere is information on the medical evacuation bill:\u003cbr\u003e\r\nhttps:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2019\/feb\/13\/nine-facts-about-the-medical-evacuation-bill\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nAnd Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s response, upping the rhetoric on fearing migrants and refugees:\u003cbr\u003e\r\nhttps:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2019\/feb\/13\/coalition-to-reopen-christmas-island-detention-centre-as-senate-passes-refugee-transfer-bill\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA PEN INTERNATIONAL WRITER:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003ePEN International has called on the Australian government for Boochani’s release. We will be approaching PEN International, PEN America, PEN U.K., and PEN Canada for support on this work, and through our efforts in publicizing the book we will also push for the author’s release.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDEMAND FOR IMMIGRANT STORIES:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eNever before has there been such interest in immigrant and refugee stories, as demonstrated by the success of story collections by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Djamila Ibrahim, Irina Kovalyova, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Ayelet Tsabari.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eACCLAIMED COMPANION FILM:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eBehrouz Boochani shot the feature-length documentary \u003cem\u003eChauka, Please Tell Us the Time\u003c\/em\u003e with Arash Kamali Sarvestani on a cellphone at the detention centre. It was acclaimed upon its release in 2018 and is available to watch on Vimeo: https:\/\/vimeo.com\/ondemand\/chauka.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFILM ADAPTATION IN THE WORKS:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eSweetshop \u0026 Green, Aurora Films, and Hoodlum Entertainment are producing a major motion picture adaptation of \u003cem\u003eNo Friend but the Mountains\u003c\/em\u003e. Filming is set to begin in Australia in mid-2021.\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nhttps:\/\/amp.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/24\/behrouz-boochanis-book-no-friend-but-the-mountains-to-be-made-into-a-film\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nhttps:\/\/www.screendaily.com\/news\/behrouz-boochanis-asylum-seeker-drama-no-friend-but-the-mountains-heads-to-big-screen-exclusive\/5147441.article?fbclid=IwAR3jcsIJTHbmAHuDmpFZLYft6En7RBnuY9Ae9XCZ4uUbjjUbIj6tjuAlQeQ\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBOOKSELLER INTEREST:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e“\u003cem\u003eNo Friend but the Mountains\u003c\/em\u003e tells a story those in power do not want you to know. In writing this improbable memoir, Behrouz Boochani has given voice to migrants and refugees across the world and reminds us that the struggle for freedom is an ongoing one. I’m grateful this book exists.” — Stephen Sparks, Point Reyes Books\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMedia Coverage on and by Behrouz Boochani\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nhttps:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/11\/14\/world\/australia\/behrouz-boochani-refugee.html\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nhttps:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2019\/nov\/14\/behrouz-boochani-free-voice-manus-island-refugees-new-zealand-australia\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nhttps:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/01\/31\/world\/australia\/behrouz-boochani-victorian-prize-manus-island.html\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nhttps:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/feb\/01\/behrouz-boochani-on-literary-prize-words-still-have-the-power-to-challenge-inhumane-systems\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nhttps:\/\/pen-international.org\/news\/on-human-rights-day-take-action-for-journalist-behrouz-boochani-stranded-on-manus-island\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nhttps:\/\/www.npr.org\/books\/titles\/634881611\/no-friend-but-the-mountains-writing-from-manus-prison\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nhttps:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2018\/oct\/29\/i-returned-to-my-prison-on-manus-island-and-was-stunned-by-what-i-saw\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nhttps:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2018\/aug\/31\/australia-needs-a-moral-revolution\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nhttps:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2018\/jun\/20\/our-lives-are-have-become-weapons-in-a-rugged-political-contest\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nhttps:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/national\/australia-s-barbaric-policy-confronted-by-boochani-s-prison-memoir-20180821-p4zyt7.html\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nhttps:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/entertainment\/books\/no-friend-but-the-mountains-review-behrouz-boochanis-poetic-and-vital-memoir-20180801-h13fuu.html\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nhttps:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2018\/aug\/02\/behrouz-boochani-manus-island-and-the-book-written-one-text-at-a-time\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nhttps:\/\/www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au\/news\/politics\/2017\/12\/09\/letter-manus-island\/15127380005617\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nhttps:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/programmes\/talktojazeera\/inthefield\/2018\/02\/behrouz-boochani-living-limbo-manus-island-180208113527825.html\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nhttps:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com.au\/author\/behrouz-boochani\/\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Description_for_R_0":"\u003cdiv \u003e\u003cstrong\u003eForeword by Richard Flanagan\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNo Friend but the Mountains\u003c\/em\u003e is a book that can rightly take its place on the shelf of world prison literature, alongside such diverse works as Oscar Wilde’s \u003cem\u003eDe Profundis\u003c\/em\u003e, Antonio Gramsci’s \u003cem\u003ePrison Notebooks\u003c\/em\u003e, Ray Parkin’s \u003cem\u003eInto The Smother\u003c\/em\u003e, Wole Soyinka’s \u003cem\u003eThe Man Died\u003c\/em\u003e, and Martin Luther King Jr’s \u003cem\u003eLetter from Birmingham Jail\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten in Farsi by a young Kurdish poet, Behrouz Boochani, in situations of prolonged duress, torment, and suffering, the very existence of this book is a miracle of courage and creative tenacity. It was written not on paper or a computer, but thumbed on a phone and smuggled out of Manus Island in the form of thousands of text messages.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe should recognise the extent of Behrouz Boochani’s achievement by first acknowledging the difficulty of its creation, the near impossibility of its existence. Everything has been done by our government to dehumanise asylum seekers. Their names and their stories are kept from us. On Nauru and Manus Island, they live in a zoo of cruelty. Their lives are stripped of meaning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese prisoners were all people who had been imprisoned without charge, without conviction, and without sentence. It is a particularly Kafkaesque fate that frequently has the cruellest effect — and one fully intended by their Australian jailers – of destroying hope.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThus the cry for freedom was transmuted into charring flesh as 23-year-old Omid Masoumali burnt his body in protest. The screams of 21-year-old Hodan Yasin as she too set herself alight.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is what we, Australia, have become.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe ignored begging of a woman on Nauru being raped.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA girl who sewed her lips together.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA child refugee who stitched a heart into their hand and didn’t know why.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBehrouz Boochani’s revolt took a different form. For the one thing that his jailers could not destroy in Behrouz Boochani was his belief in words: their beauty, their necessity, their possibility, their liberating power.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd so over the course of his imprisonment Behrouz Boochani began one of the more remarkable careers in Australian journalism: reporting about what was happening on Manus Island in the form of tweets, texts, phone videos, calls, and emails. In so doing he defied the Australian government which went to extreme lengths to prevent refugees’ stories being told, constantly seeking to deny journalists access to Manus Island and Nauru; going so far, for a time, as to legislate the draconian section 42 of the \u003cem\u003eAustralian Border Force Act\u003c\/em\u003e, which allowed for the jailing for two years of any doctors or social workers who bore public witness to children beaten or sexually abused, to acts of rape or cruelty.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis words came to be read around the world, to be heard across the oceans and over the shrill cries of the legions of paid propagandists. With only the truth on his side and a phone in his hand, one imprisoned refugee alerted the world to Australia’s great crime.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBehrouz Boochani has now written a strange and terrible book chronicling his fate as a young man who has spent \u003cem\u003efive years\u003c\/em\u003e on Manus Island as a prisoner of the Australian government’s refugee policies — policies in which both our major parties have publicly competed in cruelty.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReading this book is difficult for any Australian. We pride ourselves on decency, kindness, generosity, and a fair go. None of these qualities are evident in Boochani’s account of hunger, squalor, beatings, suicide and murder.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI was painfully reminded in his descriptions of the Australian officials’ behaviour on Manus of my father’s descriptions of the Japanese commanders’ behaviour in the POW camps where he and fellow Australian POWs suffered so much.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat has become of us when it is we who now commit such crimes?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis account demands a reckoning. Someone must answer for these crimes. Because if they don’t, the one certainty that history teaches us is that the injustice of Manus Island and Nauru will one day be repeated on a larger, grander, and infinitely more tragic scale in Australia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSomeone is responsible, and it is they, and not the innocent, to whose great suffering this book bears such disturbing witness, who should be in jail.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book, though, is something greater than just a \u003cem\u003eJ’accuse\u003c\/em\u003e. It is a profound victory for a young poet who showed us all how much words can still matter. Australia imprisoned his body, but his soul remained that of a free man. His words have now irrevocably become our words, and our history must henceforth account for his story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI hope one day to welcome Behrouz Boochani to Australia as what I believe he has shown himself to be in these pages. A writer. A great Australian writer.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Richard Flanagan, 2018\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv \u003e\u003cstrong\u003e*\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003eExcerpt from Chapter 5—\u003cbr\/\u003eA Christmas (Island) Tale \/ A Stateless Rohingya Boy Sent Away to Follow the Star of Exile\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey load us onto a bus. A few days ago in this exact area a bloody battle erupted, right in the place where we are now standing like submissive sheep. Lebanese refugees stood up to defy the guards who wanted to load them on board. But the guards smashed them and beat them down. They annihilated them, beat down on the arms and faces of a few of them. The guards dragged their battered and blood-soaked bodies over the concrete. They banished them to Manus Island. No matter how the refugees tried to resist, they couldn’t alter the political machinations of a government, a government that had just recently taken power, that had gone mad with the mere whiff of power.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe bus takes off. The path to the airport is surrounded by jungle. The conversation inside the vehicle is about the possibility of a particular scenario: that we will disembark at Darwin Airport and find out that all this talk is nothing but a ridiculous performance, the whole thing just a farce, that this whole thing doesn’t involve Manus in any way. However, talk of this kind comes from a place of weakness. At this point, faith in an occurrence that resembles a miracle comes across as ludicrous. We have to accept the reality. Within hours we will be descending on a remote island called Manus.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA few police vehicles follow our bus, and a few travel ahead. It is as though they are attending to our bus like a car transporting a president. We are so disempowered that we couldn’t do anything at all, even if we wanted to. Our baggy, cumbersome clothing weighs us down.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePandemonium breaks loose at the airport. Dozens of police officers stand by the plane in military mode. A few journalists have their cameras ready. All of them are waiting for us. The interpreters are there, also. That Kurdish woman has both her hands clasped behind her back. She just stands there, completely obedient. I can’t work it out; I can’t understand why they have to securitise that space. I am frightened by the journalists; I am frightened by the cameras they hold.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJournalists inquire into everything. They are always seeking out horrific events. They acquire fodder for their work from wars, from bad occurrences, from the misery of people. I remember when I used to work for a newspaper I would become agitated from listening to all the news about, for instance, a coup d’état, a revolution, or a terrorist attack. I would begin work with great fervour and scramble for that kind of research like a vulture; in turn, I fed the appetite of the people.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe journalists are staking out the situation like vultures: waiting until the wretched and miserable exit the vehicle; eager for us to come out as quickly as possible, to catch sight of the poor and helpless and launch on us —\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eClick, click \/\u003cbr\/\u003eWaiting to take their photos \/ Click, click.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e— and dispatch the images to the whole world. They are completely mesmerised by the government’s dirty politics and just follow along. The deal is that we have to be a warning, a lesson for people who want to seek protection in Australia.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Previous_review_q_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREVIEW COPIES:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eBooklist\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"A stateless Kurdish-Iranian asylum-seeker detained by the Australian government won the country’s highest-paying literary prize on Thursday. But he could not attend the festivities to accept the award. Behrouz Boochani, a writer, journalist and filmmaker who has been held in offshore detention on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea for more than five years, won the 2019 Victorian Prize for Literature for his book, No Friend but the Mountains . . . Typically, only Australian citizens or permanent residents are eligible for the award. But an exception was made in Mr. Boochani’s case because judges considered his story an Australia story, said Michael Williams, the director of the Wheeler Center, a literary institution that administers the award on behalf of the state government. ‘We canvassed the critical and broader literary reception of the book, and we made our decision on that basis,’ Mr. Williams said. ‘This is an extraordinary literary work that is an indelible contribution to Australian publishing and storytelling.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"New York Times","OtherText_Review_1":"Boochani tapped his book out in text messages to his friend Omid Tofighian, who translated the book from Persian. Before the book was published, Boochani filmed a movie, Chauka, Please Tell Us the Time, which was shot in secret, on his cell phone. He has written many articles and essays for Australian and international media. He now holds a non-resident appointment at the University of Sydney. In a different place, or at a different time, these professional recognitions, to say nothing of his many literary awards, would have signalled that Boochani is integrated into Australian society, and valued by it. But Australia’s extreme anti-immigrant turn, which preceded that of the United States by several years, has created a stark disjuncture between what the culture values and what the state allows. In an era when simply being a person in need of international protection makes a man a criminal, he cannot live in the society that has showered him with praise.","OtherText_Review_1_Auth":"Masha Gessen","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"The New Yorker","OtherText_Review_2":"No Friend but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison is an extraordinary insight into the life of several hundred men held in offshore prisons under the Australian policy of immigration detention.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Los Angeles Review of Books","OtherText_Review_3":"The winner of Australia’s richest literary prize did not attend the ceremony. His absence was not by choice. Behrouz Boochani, whose debut book won both the $25,000 non-fiction prize at the Victorian premier’s literary awards and the $100,000 Victorian prize for literature on Thursday night, is not allowed into Australia. The Kurdish Iranian writer is an asylum seeker who has been kept in purgatory on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea for almost six years, first behind the wire of the Australian offshore detention centre, and then in alternative accommodation on the island. 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No Friend but the Mountains
Kurdish-Iranian journalist and refugee Behrouz Boochani’s account of his detainment on Australia’s notorious Manus Island prison.
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It’s a definite must read for anyone who cares about women’s current reality, and women’s future in this country and beyond.","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Stacey May Fowles","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTIMELY SUBJECT:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThere’s a huge market for books on feminist literature and ongoing attention to women’s issues in popular media. \u003cem\u003eNo More Nice Girls\u003c\/em\u003e picks up where her 2017 book,\u003cem\u003e F-Bomb\u003c\/em\u003e, left off.\u003cem\u003e F-Bomb\u003c\/em\u003e looked at the supposed demise of the feminist movement, while this book reimagines the very concept of power itself. 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McKeon is very well connected in the media, and we will work with her to effectively market and promote the book to women’s long-lead magazines and national literary media (magazines, newspapers, radio, TV, podcasts, blogs) in addition to her spotlight in \u003cem\u003eThe Walrus\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAWARD-WINNING AUTHOR:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eLauren McKeon’s long-form writing has won her several Canadian National Magazine Awards. Her first book, \u003cem\u003eF-Bomb: Dispatches from the War on Feminism\u003c\/em\u003e (Goose Lane, 2017), was nominated for Rakuten Kobo’s Emerging Writer Prize. She contributed a chapter to the book \u003cem\u003eWhatever Gets You Through: Twelve Survivors on Life after Sexual Assault\u003c\/em\u003e. She holds an M.F.A. in Creative Nonfiction from the University of King’s College and has taught long-form writing at Humber College. She was the editor of Canada’s progressive, independent \u003cem\u003eThis Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e from 2011 to 2016, where she helmed one of the bestselling issues in recent years, “Why Canada Needs More Feminism.” She writes for \u003cem\u003eHazlitt\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eFlare\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eReader’s Digest\u003c\/em\u003e, and the \u003cem\u003eKit\u003c\/em\u003e. She is the digital editor at \u003cem\u003eThe Walrus\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTHE PRESTIGE AND SUCCESS OF THE WALRUS BOOKS IMPRINT:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe inaugural publication of Walrus Books, \u003cem\u003eBig Lonely Doug\u003c\/em\u003e, sold well and earned wide media coverage and prize attention. Lauren McKeon’s book follows Harley Rustad’s as a fine product of the same strong partnership between \u003cem\u003eThe Walrus\u003c\/em\u003e magazine, the Chawkers Foundation, and House of Anansi Press. The Walrus Books imprint publishes strong, rigorous works of narrative nonfiction that reflect the excellence of both \u003cem\u003eThe Walrus\u003c\/em\u003e and Anansi brands.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Description_for_R_0":"\u003cp\u003eOn November 8, 2016, I tried to pretend the TVs at my gym did not exist. I’d shown up that night to my weekly class expecting to walk out sweaty and exalted. If America elected a woman as its leader (as all the pundits and polls suggested the country would) then, surely, Canada would follow. Anything felt possible. I imagined a cascade of broken status quos — belligerent white men in crisp suits falling like dominos. But over the next hour disbelief replaced excitement. At one point, our class melted away from our workout stations to pool, lost, around the TV. Women muttered shit, what, no, over and over again. That night, I couldn’t sleep. I stayed seated on my bed, cross-legged, stunned. It didn’t matter that I wasn’t American, or that one of the wokest men on Earth supposedly ran my own country. Electing a blatant misogynist to one of the world’s most powerful positions symbolized something: we were fucked.\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eSince then, the question of women and power has undergone something of a renaissance — largely because we’ve been forced to confront, once again, how much of it women still don’t have. Quite literally overnight, many of us went from believing, with good reason, that we’d never been closer to equality — and power — to reckoning with just how far away from both women truly were. In response, women woke up, gathered, and demanded change. All around the world, they protested. The momentum from the Women’s March on Washington built into #MeToo and a very public reckoning with the everyday ways in which women’s power and autonomy are constantly undermined.\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eWatching it all, I was galvanized. But I also felt as though I was stuck in a not-so-fun house of magic mirrors. Come one, come all! Watch as the road to equality shrinks, stretches, distorts! Sometimes it seemed as if our fury, powerful in its own right, could propel us anywhere we wanted to go: into public office, into the C-suite, into a world in which we had bodily autonomy. Other times, as the anti-feminist backlash grew louder, bolder, and more expansive, it seemed as though women were in our most precarious spot yet. I began to think of feminist power as a paradox: from some vantages, we seemed closer than ever to achieving it; from others, we’d never been farther away.\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eI have spent the bulk of my journalism career investigating the ways in which women navigate, and in many cases push back against, the expectations of the world around them. In doing this, I now realize, what I’ve really been asking, consciously or not, is how women disrupt and reimagine power structures, how they gain power both in and over their lives. Many of the women I’ve interviewed are pioneers in their fields, often ones dominated by men, and you could say they are subverting from within. Others are pushing at established power structures from the outside, rallying from the grassroots. They are all inspiring and amazing. But is what they’re doing working? These past few years have illuminated some stark, and seemingly contradictory, truths. Despite immense progress, no amount of success can immunize women against the toxic, sexist environments around them, and it is not uncommon for women to be utterly alone: one of few in their field, the only woman in management at their company, or the only one breaking a certain convention.\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eThe more I heard their stories, the more I wondered: Even if a woman won the next American or Canadian federal election, what would that victory gain us? Or, put another way: Do we have the very concept of women and power all wrong? I’m not saying I want all the feminists to give up the fight, retreat to their kitchens, and let one pucker-mouthed man and his acolytes burn the planet. I want women to attain the same powerful positions afforded to men, in equal numbers. But it’s also dangerous to see that status, in and of itself, as a panacea to centuries of Western civilization, all built on foundational histories of sexism, misogyny, and violence against women. A woman prime minister certainly wouldn’t “cancel out” this seemingly new brand of misogyny, dredged up for all the world to see. In fact, the past few years have revealed that any woman, or member of another equity-seeking group, who stands where white, straight, cisgender men usually do is certain to face violent backlash. Or, as University of Cambridge classics professor Mary Beard argues in her short manifesto Women and Power, throughout time women have been placed in, or near to, positions of power simply to fail. To illustrate her point, Beard borrows from Greek mythology, referring to Clytemnestra, who rules over her city while her husband fights in the Trojan War, only to be murdered by her own children after she refuses to cede her new leadership upon his return (well, okay, she also killed her husband rather than go back down the patriarchal chain). Or more recently, Beard suggests, consider Theresa May or Hillary Clinton. For women, power is messy from every angle.\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003ePerhaps, then, it’s finally time to start rethinking feminism’s one-time end goals, to ditch our old checklists for equality. Yes, let’s not abandon our strategizing toward getting more women to the top, but let’s also examine a deeper, less considered problem: that is, what the view from “the top” looks like for women once they’re there. What if we could redefine not just women’s path to power but the very concept of power itself? Or more radical yet: What if we stopped focusing on playing the game better, ditched the rulebook, and refused to play their game at all? What would power even look like to us if we weren’t always visualizing it within the context of men?\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Previous_review_q_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREVIEW COPIES:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eBooklist\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"[Lauren McKeon’s] vital, keenly insightful work is a must-read.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Booklist","OtherText_Review_1":"McKeon uses plain language and an army of external sources to illuminate the puppet strings of power . . . No More Nice Girls avoids despairing, instead positing a hopeful roadmap toward a future wherein women will not just attain power, but will topple and rebuild it in their own image.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Foreword Reviews","OtherText_Review_2":"Through a wealth of examples of women and communities working to topple power structures in a variety of sectors, No More Nice Girls is a thoughtful, bold read that envisions a future in which women create new styles of leadership.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Rabble.ca","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003eTimely … [\u003cem\u003eNo More Nice Girls\u003c\/em\u003e] will open your eyes to a better way of doing things.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"I’ve Read This","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNo More Nice Girls \u003c\/em\u003eprovides a rallying cry for feminists of any age to once again challenge the current paradigm and institutions that continue to disempower women. McKeon’s book contains a healthy amount of outrage and antidote that will leave the reader with tools to do more than just get angry — it will also create for themselves and for future generations recipes for working toward systemic change … \u003cem\u003eNo More Nice Girls\u003c\/em\u003e belongs on the bookshelf alongside Susan Faludi’s Backlash, Susan Douglas’s Enlightened Sexism, Sylvia Bashevkin’s Women, Power, Politics, and Linda Trimble’s Ms. Prime Minister — all important contemporary books that lay out feminist issues. It adds to the conversation and stands upon the shoulders of these giants in terms of moving feminist thought ahead.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"An insightful novel that shows how women are disrupting the standard (very male) vision of power and ditching convention.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2020-03-03","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"An insightful novel that shows how women are disrupting the standard (very male) vision of power and ditching convention.","Subtitle":"Gender, Power, and Why It’s Time to Stop Playing by the Rules","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
No More Nice Girls
An insightful novel that shows how women are disrupting the standard (very male) vision of power and ditching convention.
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North America’s Lost Decade?
The eighth semi-annual Munk Debate asks will North America rebound from economic stagnation, or is the future more uncertain than ever?
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The stories and experiences that Marie Wilson shares are deeply personal, and they call us each to look within ourselves to find the ways we can be part of the important work of reconciliation.\" — \u003cstrong\u003eNora Sanders, former General Secretary, United Church of Canada\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_11":"\u003cp\u003e\"In \u003cem\u003eNorth of Nowhere\u003c\/em\u003e, Marie Wilson honours her vow to residential school Survivors to ‘do no harm’ and to bear witness to and honour their experiences ‘I see you. I hear you. I believe you. And I love you’—Marie’s words as a Commissioner to Survivors set the tone for this very important book.\" — \u003cstrong\u003ePerry Bellegarde, former National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_12":"\u003cp\u003e\"Truth must come before reconciliation; this book will empower Canadians to focus on what we can control today when it comes to implementing the Calls to Action. This book advocates for building awareness, understanding, and long-term relationships between Indigenous people and Canadians. If every Canadian reads this book, the Truth and Reconciliation Calls to Action can be achieved.\" —\u003cstrong\u003eCadmus Delorme, former chief of Cowessess First Nation\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_13":"\u003cp\u003e\"We ask and demand so much of our leaders and healers. And we expect that while they work, they also hold space for us. In that space is our healing. The Commissioners heard it all—an emotional snapshot, a glimpse of our collective history—and held it throughout and carried on, every day. Words like Marie Wilson's, from her beautiful soul, are the salve.\" — \u003cstrong\u003eSusan Aglukark, Juno Award–winning Inuk musician, author, and philanthropist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_14":"\u003cp\u003e\"Marie Wilson places her own life and story in the service of reconciliation, as an agent for truth and as a reporter for the TRC story, whose legacy has profoundly changed this country for the better.\" —\u003cstrong\u003eNatan Obed, president of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_15":"\u003cp\u003e\"TRC Commissioner Dr. Marie Wilson’s book, \u003cem\u003eNorth of Nowhere\u003c\/em\u003e, takes its reader on a six-and-a-half-year journey to Canada’s Indigenous communities. Here the reader experiences the sadness, courage, and resilience of Canada’s residential school Survivors. \u003cem\u003eNorth of Nowhere\u003c\/em\u003e combines the passion of a truth-teller with the objectivity and impartiality of a journalist, balanced with the heart of both a mother and grandmother. Dr. Wilson’s masterful work speaks for children whose voices have been silenced and whose stories have remained untold, allowing Survivors to continue their healing through the inspirational examples and words of many others. The reader is invited to bear witness to the heartbreaks, courage, and resilience of these Survivors. Dr. Wilson opens a doorway, allowing her readers to both witness and reconcile with this dark chapter in Canada’s history.\" — \u003cstrong\u003eJane Middelton-Moz, therapist, author, and founder of the MSW Indigenous Trauma and Resiliency (ITR) Program at the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_16":"\u003cp\u003e\"Journalist Marie Wilson brings us into the emotion-charged rooms, the sacred spaces of Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation hearings. She listens with the heart of a mother, looking into the souls of the adult Survivors standing before her and seeing the children they once were. Though she holds nothing back, in the end this is a triumphant, restorative narrative—a testament to the healing that happens when we share our deepest, darkest truths.\" — \u003cstrong\u003eJudy Rodgers, founding director of Images \u0026 Voice of Hope, board member of The Peace Studio\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_17":"\u003cp\u003e\"TRC Commissioner Marie Wilson beautifully centres the Survivors at the heart of her book\u003cem\u003e. North of Nowhere \u003c\/em\u003eincludes stories of heartbreak and of loss but also celebrates stories of resurgence and redemption. It powerfully ruptures the colonial myth-making and storytelling that has for so long suppressed Indigenous voices, languages, and cultures. Commissioner Wilson calls on everyone and, in particular, invites Canadians to bear witness and to promise in a sacred trust to never stop telling the stories of residential school Survivors. A trust that is binding upon us for as long as the river flows.\" — \u003cstrong\u003eTammara Soma, assistant professor at the School of Resource and Environmental Management, Simon Fraser University\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_18":"\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eNorth of Nowhere\u003c\/em\u003e is a must-read for public and private funders and philanthropists who share a sense of outrage at the intergenerational harms of residential schools. Marie Wilson’s deeply personal story gives new meaning to the work of Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission and what still urgently needs to be done to fill the glaring educational, economic, and sociopolitical gaps that continue to exist. She makes it clear that the tangible, specific, and urgent Calls to Action of the Commission are not limited to the federal government, but apply to all sectors of society. As such, she challenges us all as the inheritors of the history and harms of residential schools ‘to do more, to do differently, and to do better.’\" — \u003cstrong\u003eNancy MacPherson, former managing director, the Rockefeller Foundation; former acting chief impact officer, the Mastercard Foundation\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_19":"\u003cp\u003e\"Marie Wilson has the power to inspire people. This power emanates from deep inside her being. In \u003cem\u003eNorth of Nowhere\u003c\/em\u003e, she combines her rare insight with her ability to be a beacon of inspiration. She has turned the story of the Canadian TRC into a healing narrative for the whole world.\" — \u003cstrong\u003eSylvia Vollenhoven, South African journalist, managing director of Vision in Africa\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_2":"\u003cp\u003e\"Marie Wilson's remarkable memoir is a schooling in painful facts and brave reckonings.\" —\u003cstrong\u003eElizabeth Hay, author of \u003cem\u003eAll Things Consoled\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_20":"\u003cp\u003e\"Through vivid personal stories, Marie Wilson transmits both the tremendous technical challenges of the TRC journey, and even more importantly, the passion, courage, and heart that are needed to move towards reconciliation, one story at a time. \u003cem\u003eNorth of Nowhere\u003c\/em\u003e fills a crucial void in the literature on truth commissions and transitional justice: the heart element of this work.\" — \u003cstrong\u003eVirginie Ladisch, International Center for Transitional Justice\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_21":"\u003cp\u003e\"During Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, I watched Marie Wilson listen so deeply to so many Survivors who shared their terrible truths, and I wondered: How could she bear to witness it all? We find out in this heartfelt book, crafted from the careful observations of a seasoned journalist, mother, and grandmother. An insider’s look at the TRC, a meditation on love, and a timely reminder that we as a country cannot ignore our painful past if we hope to move forward together.\" — \u003cstrong\u003eDuncan McCue, professor of Indigenous journalism and (story)telling at Carleton University, author of \u003cem\u003eDecolonizing Journalism: A Guide to Reporting in Indigenous Communities\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_22":"\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eNorth of Nowhere\u003c\/em\u003e is both a necessary call and a collaborative invitation for all Canadians. A beautiful blend of both a heartbreaking account and an inspiring call to rise, told with the care and empathy of a mother. Even in the midst of residential school despair, there are glimpses of hope in seeing how sport could briefly lift the spirits of struggling children, serving as a powerful reminder of the importance of sport in reconciliation.\" — \u003cstrong\u003eLizanne Murphy, Canadian women’s basketball Olympian\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_23":"\u003cp\u003e\"This amazing, compelling, and moving book from former journalist, Commissioner, and Warrior Marie Wilson, is not only a testimony of the stories, the tears, the smell, the ache, and the hopes heard during the TRC, and the behind-the-scenes camaraderie between the three Commissioners. It is a real gift to humanity to immortalize the spirit of the TRC hearings, a call for a new beginning, and a special blessing bringing the circles of truth and light to healing. I cried. I got angry. I felt ashamed. I smiled. I laughed. I got inspired. I am hopeful for the future. Thank you, Marie, for your openness and authenticity in sharing those stories so that they become our stories for generations to come.\" — \u003cstrong\u003eDenise Amyot, former president of Colleges Institutes Canada and former ADM and CEO of a federal Crown corporation in the Government of Canada\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_24":"\u003cp\u003e\"Marie Wilson's book, \u003cem\u003eNorth of Nowhere\u003c\/em\u003e, is a tour de force. It's that rare thing: both an intimate memoir and a compelling portrait of a crucial part of Canada's past and present. The only woman, northerner, and non-Indigenous member of the three TRC commissioners, Wilson brought a unique combination of journalism skills and cross-cultural experience as a member of a Dene family to the most revealing and far-reaching inquiry into Indigenous peoples' individual and collective experiences with the country's residential school system. Told with nuance, deep insight, and power, this book offers the reader a unique chance for understanding Canada's past and present, all told in an intimate, illuminating, and compelling story.\" — \u003cstrong\u003eCynthia Reyes, author of \u003cem\u003eA Good Home\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eAn Honest House\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_3":"\u003cp\u003e\"Marie Wilson elicits emotional and insightful responses that move us along our journeys of understanding the truth of Canada.\" —\u003cstrong\u003eShelagh Rogers and Monique Gray Smith\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_4":"\u003cp\u003e\"Beautifully written, Marie Wilson’s \u003cem\u003eNorth of Nowhere\u003c\/em\u003e is a stunning work of truth, power, and wisdom. An imperative read for all Canadians to understand the layers of shrapnel left by the residential school system that will leave you with emotion and hope. Wilson is an incredibly brilliant and gifted writer.\" — \u003cstrong\u003eAngela Sterritt, author of \u003cem\u003eUnbroken: My Fight for Survival, Hope, and Justice for Indigenous Women and Girls\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_5":"\u003cp\u003e\"I hope everyone reads this and finds their way to support Survivors, their families, and their communities as they continue to reclaim so much of what was stolen. What a profound and riveting read.\" —\u003cstrong\u003eRichard Van Camp, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Lesser Blessed\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eGodless but Loyal to Heaven\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_6":"\u003cp\u003e\"Canada needs this book. \u003cem\u003eNorth of Nowhere\u003c\/em\u003e brings us face-to-face with our buried past; it will make us stronger for the future. As a Truth and Reconciliation Commissioner, Marie Wilson walks with us, guides us, and helps us see, hear, and accept the difficult truth of our country. With beautiful writing, superb insights, and sensitivity, she leaves readers not guilty or damaged but optimistic for a shared future as we travel a national road to reconciliation.\" —\u003cstrong\u003eWhit Fraser, Vice Regal Consort of Canada\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_7":"\u003cp\u003e\"Profoundly moving and surprisingly optimistic.\" —\u003cstrong\u003eCharlotte Gray, (CM), author of \u003cem\u003ePassionate Mothers, Powerful Sons: The Lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_8":"\u003cp\u003e\"The long-matured work of a true elder, this magnificent book is a sober masterpiece of sacred activism.\" —\u003cstrong\u003eAndrew Harvey, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Hope: A Guide to Sacred Activism\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_9":"\u003cp\u003e\"A powerful, readable, personal, and uniquely informed review of the historic damage done to Indigenous people in Canada and a compelling reminder of how and why we can change that legacy. I strongly recommend this book.\" —\u003cstrong\u003eThe Right Honourable Joe Clark\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003ePrior to her work in reconciliation, Marie Wilson spent more than twenty years with CBC\/Radio-Canada as an award-winning journalist and broadcaster in Canada’s North and in Quebec.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWilson was the only woman among the three TRC commissioners; however, it should be noted that she is a non-Indigenous person. She spent six years criss-crossing the country as a commissioner.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe work of truth and reconciliation in the wake of the residential school system and other destructive effects of colonization on Indigenous Peoples is ongoing. There is still much to discuss and learn about moving relations between Indigenous Peoples and settlers forward in a good way.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCanada can offer both positive and negative examples for other settler-colonial nations reckoning with their treatment of their Indigenous populations (Australia, New Zealand, the US).\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWilson lives in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSimultaneous audiobook (read by the author).\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Long_description_1":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003ePrior to her work in reconciliation, Marie Wilson spent more than twenty years with CBC\/Radio-Canada as an award-winning journalist and broadcaster in Canada’s North and in Quebec.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWilson was the only woman among the three TRC commissioners; however, it should be noted that she is a non-Indigenous person. 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The incomparable first-hand account of the historic Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada told by one of the commissioners who led it.
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Nostalgia for the Absolute
George Steiner considers the decline of formal religious systems and the consequent moral and emotional emptiness in Western culture.
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In 2018, Heberlein debuted as a fiction writer with the novel \u003cem\u003eEverything Is Going to Be All Right\u003c\/em\u003e. Heberlein has researched and taught at the Department of Practical Philosophy at Stockholm University and at the Faculty of Theology, Lund University.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","ContributorBio_1":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eALICE MENZIES\u003c\/strong\u003e is a freelance translator based in London. 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Well, the short answer may be: to love the world so much that we think change is possible.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe life of Hannah Arendt spans a crucial chapter in the history of the Western world, a period that witnessed the rise of the Nazi regime and the crises of the Cold War, a time when our ideas about humanity and its value, its guilt and responsibility, were formulated. Arendt’s thinking is intimately entwined with her life and the concrete experiences she drew from her encounters with evil, but also from love, exile, statelessness, and longing. This strikingly original work moves from political themes that wholly consume us today, such as the ways in which democracies can so easily become totalitarian states; to the deeply personal, in intimate recollections of Arendt’s famous lovers and friends, including Heidegger, Benjamin, de Beauvoir, and Sartre; and to wider moral deconstructions of what it means to be human and what it means to be humane.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOn Love and Tyranny \u003c\/i\u003ebrings to life a Hannah Arendt for our days, a timeless intellectual whose investigations into the nature of evil and of love are eerily and urgently relevant half a century later.\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781487008116","excerpt_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781487008116\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Height":"8.5","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"Anansi International","MetaKeywords":"amor mundi;Stalinism;violence;responsibility;forgiveness;xenophobia;autocracy;democracy collapse;political refugee;Cold War;heinrich Blucher;Kurt Blumenfeld;Bertolt Brecht;Karl Jaspers;Hans Jonas;Mary McCarthy;Anne Mendelsohn Weil;Gerson Scholem;Rahel Varnhagen;German Jewish","NumberOfPages":"272","OtherText_Accolades_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOn Love and Tyranny\u003c\/em\u003e is a stunning biography of Hannah Arendt, one of the most important thinkers of the last century. Heberlein shows us how the personal and the political, living and thinking, are woven together in a tapestry of threads that we cannot and should not tease apart.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Janice Gross Stein, political scientist and founding director, Munk School of Global Affairs","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eSince the 2016 U.S. election, Hannah Arendt and her works have experienced a major rise in popularity. Her writings on how democracies collapse into autocracies and why populations support totalitarian governments have found an interested audience as authoritarians take power across the globe. In the months following the election, \u003cem\u003eThe Origins of Totalitarianism\u003c\/em\u003e was selling at sixteen times its normal rate and was selling out at bookstores around the world.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eIt’s important not to understate what an iconic figure Hannah Arendt has become. In 1961, she reported for \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e on the war-crimes trial of Nazi SS officer Adolf Eichmann, after which she famously coined the phrase “the banality of evil.” Thus “evil” is juxtaposed with “love” as a major current in her philosophy. This period of her life is the subject of a 2013 German biopic, \u003cem\u003eHannah Arendt\u003c\/em\u003e, directed by Margarethe von Trotta.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eIn this book, Dr. Ann Heberlein presents an utterly unique approach to Arendt’s thinking, by demonstrating how major themes in her work are intimately connected to her lived experiences. By relating Arendt’s theoretical reflections to her life, Heberlein paints a dramatic and compelling portrait of this major period in Western history (Arendt lived from 1906 to 1975). \u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Description_for_R_0":"\u003cp\u003eIn Hannah’s \u003cem\u003eDenktagebuch\u003c\/em\u003e, her intellectual diary, there is a reflection on love and evil. Taking the concept of \u003cem\u003eamor mundi\u003c\/em\u003e as her starting point, she muses on the difficulty of loving the world. Why is it so hard, and why must we love the world? The love Hannah discusses here is not love in the conventional sense. To love the world means reconciling oneself with it, in all its imperfection and weakness — because this reconciliation is necessary for its continued existence. For Hannah Arendt, it was a case of “understanding and accepting what really happened.” How could anyone love the world after the Holocaust? In what world is something like the Holocaust even possible?\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eHannah links love for the world, \u003cem\u003eamor mundi\u003c\/em\u003e, to responsibility, reflection, and judgement. A love that presupposes reflection over one’s own actions and an understanding of their consequences. In this approach, there are parallels to her thoughts on evil. Indifference can, according to Hannah, be fertile ground for evil, and the opposite of indifference is reflection. As a result, everyone has a responsibility to reflect on their own actions, a responsibility to choose, a responsibility not to simply obey orders and follow the crowd.\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eYet the argument Hannah would come to call the \u003cem\u003ebanality of evil\u003c\/em\u003e aroused strong disgust and anger in many of her contemporaries. Hannah’s description of Adolf Eichmann, one of the architects of the Holocaust, as an unimaginative bureaucrat who was simply doing his job shocked the world. Critics saw Hannah’s argument as a diminishment of Eichmann’s guilt, and the book was slated everywhere. Friends and colleagues turned their backs on her. In an infamous interview with Günter Gaus on West German TV, just after the publication of \u003cem\u003eEichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil\u003c\/em\u003e (1964), Hannah is asked whether she wishes she had never written the book. Does she believe that, despite all the negative reactions — all the hate — she did the right thing by writing the book the way she did?\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eHannah, a middle-aged woman by the time of the interview, listens to Gaus’s question with a frown. She is wearing a dark dress, and her once-black hair, though thick as ever, is flecked with grey. She has one leg nonchalantly crossed over the other, her dark eyes guarded yet alert, and she is holding a cigarette in one hand. Gaus, clean shaven in a white shirt and thick rimmed glasses, seems almost breathless as he waits for her reply.\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eHannah leans back in her armchair, studies Gaus intently, and takes a deep drag on her cigarette before she speaks. Her answer paraphrases Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I’s motto, \u003cem\u003efiat iustitia, et pereat mundus: fiat veritas, et pereat mundus\u003c\/em\u003e — let truth be done, though the world may perish. She raises her free hand and points at Gaus, as though to stress the importance of her words: “The truth must be told, regardless of the consequences of that truth.” A worthy motto for someone who put their life on the line on more than one occasion in their steadfast belief in what is true and right.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"\u003cp\u003eCombines rigorous biographical research with a novelistic story of Arendt’s passion … This book should be required reading for serious scholars and anyone who wants to be immersed in an intercontinental epic romance.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"St. Louis Jewish Light","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"In an utterly unique approach to biography, On Love and Tyranny traces the life and work of the iconic German Jewish intellectual Hannah Arendt.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2021-01-05","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"In an utterly unique approach to biography, On Love and Tyranny traces the life and work of the iconic German Jewish intellectual Hannah Arendt.","Subtitle":"The Life and Politics of Hannah Arendt","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
On Love and Tyranny
In an utterly unique approach to biography, On Love and Tyranny traces the life and work of the iconic German Jewish intellectual Hannah Arendt.
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On the Eve of the Millennium
In his 1994 CBC Massey Lectures, Conor Cruise O'Brien considers threats to the Enlightenment tradition from which modern society derives.
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On Writing
Readers will have in this book almost everything they need to know about the complexities of researching, writing, and publishing fiction.
