Short Non-Fiction

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Barbarians Among Us

The Silent Strange Poetry of a Century at War

From: The Nothing That Is

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Celebration of Life

From: Be Scared of Everything

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The essay titled "Celebration of Life." 3 $0.30 Add
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Echoes in a Stranger Land

From: Blank

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Harbour

From: Before I Was a Critic I Was a Human Being

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The author briefly summarizes her life to contextulize the persepctive of her essays and her experiences as Asian woman living in a former British colony in the 21st century. 17 $1.70 Add
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II.

From: Cyclettes

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Abraham’s uses prose, images, and personal musings about the millennial experience and navigating the borderlands of adulthood against the backdrop of cycling. 48 $4.80 Add
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Introduction

Some Notes for You, Reading

From: Notes from a Feminist Killjoy

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The author introduces her work and the context that led her to writing a book about feminism as an academic, reading, and blogger. 38 $3.80 Add
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Keystone Ecotones

(earth)

From: Imminent Domains: Reckoning With The Anthropocene

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Includes the essays: Deforestation Rewilding and Lazarus Species. 41 $4.10 Add
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Makers of Our Lives

Chapter Two

From: A Friend Sails in on a Poem

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Personal essays on the friendship between Phillis Levin and author Mary Peacock. 17 $1.70 Add
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My Nights with the Generals

From: Touch Anywhere to Begin

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The essay “My Nights with the Generals Shanghai” reflects on the history of Shanghai, the Opium Wars, the People’s Liberation Army in the present day, Chairman Mao, and nostalgia. 9 $0.90 Add
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Part One: Let Us Live

From: I Hope We Choose Love

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Righteous Callings: Being Good Leftist Orthodoxy, and the Social Justice Crisis of Faith — you are allowed to leave — We Need to Confront a Culture of Enabling in Queer Community … 38 $3.80 Add
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Part Two

From: The Book of Grief and Hamburgers

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Ross discusses friendship, family, and grief. 21 $2.10 Add
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Prelude to a Fugue

From: Double Melancholy

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In the introduction, the author describes his goals for the book: as a performance of decolonization, and a description of his understanding and relationship with art. 8 $0.80 Add
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Rape Culture, CanLit, and You

From: Refuse

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Zoe Todd frames her critique of the UBCAccountable movement in terms of the intersecting and overlapping forces of rape culture, colonialism, and white supremacy. She particularly calls upon … 6 $0.60 Add
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Rereading Dr. Zhivago

From: Ordinary Paradise

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The Dog Was Fine

Part One: Time

From: Good Mom on Paper

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Part One: Time 9 $0.90 Add
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The Miracle of Life and Other Feats of Strength

From: Send Me Into the Woods Alone

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The essay "The Miracle of Life and Other Feats of Strength." 8 $0.80 Add