NONFICTION
How Artists Make Money and How Money Makes Artists
How artists make a living and how money changes art
It may not be the worst time in history to get paid to make art, but it certainly is the strangest. The institutions and markets that have been supporting ...
The Silence of Falling Snow
From an innovator of autofiction comes a meditation on grief, care, Buddhism, and artmaking.
'This is a story. It is a story about someone accompanying another to the last gate.'
Years ago, Kristjana Gunnars ...
Messy Cities
Can messiness make our cities more liveable, lively, and inclusive?
Crowded streets, sidewalk vendors, jumbled architecture, constant clamour, graffitied walls, parks gone wild: are these signs of a poorly ...
Encampment
ONE OF THE GLOBE AND MAIL'S BEST BOOKS OF 2025
WINNER OF THE 2025 TORONTO BOOK AWARD
"Striking, elegant." – Publishers Weekly, ★ STARRED Review
An activist priest provides sanctuary for an encampment of ...
Steamy
Menopause: so many symptoms, so few remedies, so many years, so few heads-ups.
In Steamy, you’ll find forty-five of the ever-expanding list of things people can encounter when going through The Change, i ...
Hypochondria
"Everyone must read this book." – Lucia Osborne-Crowley
"Extraordinary and utterly compelling." – Adam Phillips
"An almost impossible balancing act." – Merve Emre
“Part philosophical treatise, part memoir, p ...
Bread and Milk
From one of Sweden's most loved authors, an essayistic memoir about women and food, translated by Saskia Vogel.
Bread and Milk traces a life through food, from a bag of tangerines devoured in one sitting ...
No Jews Live Here
WINNER OF THE 2025 CANADIAN JEWISH LITERARY AWARD FOR MEMOIR
NOMINEE FOR THE HERITAGE TORONTO 2025 BOOK AWARD
A stolen sign, ‘No Jews Live Here,’ kept John Lorinc’s Hungarian Jewish family alive during the H ...
Living Disability
How can we build more accessible cities? Living Disability brings together vibrant perspectives on disability justice and urban systems.
From sidewalks to the climate crisis, Living Disability brings ...
Stroll, updated edition
THE TORONTO STAR'S "30 BOOKS WE CAN'T WAIT TO READ THIS SPRING"
The updated edition of a Toronto favourite meanders around some of the city’s unique neighborhoods and considers what makes a city walkable ...