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Le vaste monde: scènes d'enfance
Par Robert Lalonde. 1999
Québec 68: l'année révolution
Par Benoît Gignac. 2008
"De l'élection de Pierre Elliott Trudeau à titre de premier ministre du Canada jusqu'à la naissance du Parti Québécois en…
passant par "Les Belles-Soeurs", "l'Osstidcho", les batailles liguistiques ou étudiantes, le féminisme et le FLQ, ce livre chronique permettra au lecteur de survoler de façon divertissante un pan de vie politique, culturelle et sociale probablement inégalé dans l'histoire du Québec". -- 4e de couv25 mythes à déboulonner en politique québécoise
Par Michel Auger. 2018
" Si les États-Unis ont leur fake news , signe dun pays divisé où on a du mal à trouver…
le sens du compromis et le centre politique, au Québec, ce sont plutôt nos mythes dans les domaines identitaire, politique, social et économique qui tiennent lieu de fake news . Il s'agit d'idées reçues et d'exagérations de la vérité ayant pu être fondées dans un passé lointain, mais qui prennent encore de nos jours une place démesurée dans le discours public. Le but de ce livre est d'amener les lecteurs à déboulonner ces idées reçues en les soumettant à l'épreuve des faits. "Nous étions le nouveau monde: 1, Le feuilleton des origines (Nous étions le nouveau monde. #1.)
Par Jean-Claude Germain. 2009
Au croisement de l'histoire, de l'humour et de l'esprit, il y a Jean-Claude Germain, l'incontournable et inamovible chroniqueur de la…
Nouvelle-France. Il était là, dans les coulisses des forts, en marge des champs de bataille, tapi dans l'ombre des ruelles de Montréal et de Québec. Il a tout vu, tout entendu, tout lu, et il nous raconte tout. Vingt épisodes, consacrés à autant de personnages ou d'événements marquants [...]. On y croise Jeanne Mance, Maisonneuve, Frontenac, Madeleine de Verchères, Le Moyne, Montcalm, et plusieurs autres encore; on y rencontre aussi des Amérindiens de tout poil, et même des Américains, dont Benjamin Franklin et le général Washington lui-même. Grâce à sa plume espiègle et son immense culture, Jean-Claude Germain nous prouve une fois encore que la petite et la grande histoire sont indissociables. -- 4e de couvPirandello: biographie de l'enfant échangé
Par Andrea Camilleri. 2002
Biographie en forme de récit passionné, vu que l'auteur-écrivain est à la fois concitoyen et confrère de Pirandello. Le sous-titre…
insiste sur un caractère important de la vie du nouvelliste et dramaturge sicilien [SDMPassion politique
Par Jean Chrétien. 2007
"[...] Dans Passion politique, Jean Chrétien raconte, avec la complicité du journaliste Ron Graham et du romancier Daniel Poliquin, les…
dix ans qu'il a passés comme premier ministre du Canada. On retrouve dans ce livre le Jean Chrétien que tout le monde connaît : le politicien pragmatique, le Canadien farouchement attaché à l'unité de son pays. On découvre également un aspect de l'homme moins connu : le médiateur des grandes rencontres internationales. Mais, toujours, il étonne par l'acuité de son instinct politique et charme par le ton inimitable de son récit. Tout en nous dévoilant les rouages de l'exercice du pouvoir à Ottawa, Jean Chrétien nous propose une galerie de portraits croqués sur le vif et de savoureuses anecdotes." -- 4e de couvAu temps de la pensée pressée
Par Jean-Philippe Pleau. 2023
Composé des "éditos" avec lesquels Jean-Philippe Pleau termine son émission radiophonique, ainsi que des articles qu'il a publiés au fil…
des années, Au temps de la pensée pressée est un essai à la fois personnel, littéraire et sociologique. La pensée y vagabonde librement, s'abandonnant aussi bien à l'intuition qu'à la réflexion critique, nous révélant chemin faisant un auteur qui avoue être devenu fou, qui compare les Lego à des philosophes, qui interroge ses émotions et qui partage ses lectures ainsi que le souvenir de son amitié avec Serge BouchardParis en miettes (Liberté grande)
Par Yan Hamel. 2023
Des romanciers québécois ont parfois pris le risque d'emmener leurs personnages à Paris pour qu'ils essaient (désir, velléité, épreuve ?)…
d'y vivre. Yan Hamel, lisant ces romans que signèrent Anne Hébert, Marie-Claire Blais, Jacques Poulin, Michel Tremblay, Gail Scott, Jacques Godbout, Victor-Lévy Beaulieu, la Manitobaine Gabrielle Roy et l'Acadienne France Daigle, n'a pu que constater les tristes inappétences de ces émigrés romanesques, un mal-être nourri d'un sourd et profond sentiment de servitude culturelle. Il rage devant ce constat, il s'emporte et se fait, en héraut tocard, le ramasse-miettes de ces agapes ratéesExiste-t-il une littérature québécoise contre les chaises berçantes ?: pamphlet
Par Patrick Tillard. 2023
Aux "merdivals" et autres "merdias télévisuels", il oppose plusieurs paroles libres d'hérétiques à la recherche d'une littérature créative et poétique…
définie par son audace, par ses déchirures, par un écart salvateur d'avec les perspectives balisées de l'enclos culturel. La fausse conscience et la résignation portée par la littérature québécoise contemporaine, son conformisme, sa soumission aux lois du marché ou aux politiques du moment, les complaisances enfin de ses auteur·es sont bien entendu dénoncéesCrépuscules admirables: nécrologies (Collection Liberté grande)
Par Thomas Mainguy. 2022
Chaque être qui a commencé à croire en la possibilité de sa mort se réveille dans la mélancolie. Il se…
sent, quelque part au fond de lui-même où loge sa peine écrasante ou sa lucidité sereine, virtuellement dépossédé de ce qu'il est. L'ensemble des nécrologies qui suivent - c'est ainsi que j'appelle ces textes qui traitent d'écrivains disparus - fréquente ces profondeurs crépusculaires, mais avec des antennes permettant aussi d'attraper les clartés qui les pénètrent et parfois les déchirent, au point de nous éblouir admirablementRegard d'Annie Dillard (Contre jour)
Par Thomas Mainguy, Guillaume Asselin, Jean-François Bourgeault, Gabrielle Chevarier, Sara Danièle Bélanger Michaud. 2023
Dans Une enfance américaine, Annie Dillard se remémore sa jeunesse et discerne les étapes de construction de sa vie intérieure.…
Elle raconte avoir dessiné à répétition, durant un été, son gant de baseball. Cet exercice rappelle l'une des forces de son imaginaire, à savoir l'action du regard. Dessiner un objet, c'est se conduire à l'oubli de soi. Le présent ouvrage tente ainsi de cerner les vertiges que l'écrivaine explore depuis les années 1970Mythologies québécoises (Collection Palabres)
Par Sarah-Louise Pelletier-Morin. 2021
Je suis née entre le débat constitutionnel et le référendum de 1995 sur l'indépendance du Québec. J'ai grandi avec l'idée…
que le Québec était une société distincte, libre et capable d'assumer son destin. S'il a toujours été évident, à mes yeux, que le peuple québécois avait une identité forte et un caractère propre, il me semble encore aujourd'hui laborieux de décrire avec précision cette spécificité sans revenir inlassablement aux mêmes lieux communs: la langue française, le statut politique de la province, le Code civil, le passé catholique, l'hiver, le hockey60 songs that explain the '90s
Par Rob Harvilla. 2023
A companion to the #1 music podcast on Spotify, this book takes readers through the greatest hits that define a…
weirdly undefinable decade. The 1990s were a chaotic and gritty and utterly magical time for music, a confounding barrage of genres and lifestyles and superstars, from grunge to hip-hop, from sumptuous R&B to rambunctious ska-punk, from Axl to Kurt to Missy to Santana to Tupac to Britney. In 60 SONGS THAT EXPLAIN THE '90s, Ringer music critic Rob Harvilla reimagines all the earwormy, iconic hits Gen Xers pine for with vivid historical storytelling, sharp critical analysis, rampant loopiness, and wryly personal ruminations on the most bizarre, joyous, and inescapable songs from a decade we both regret entirely and miss desperatelyDiscover the inspiring, unknown, against-all-odds story of how the classic animated holiday special A Charlie Brown Christmas almost never made…
it on to television. Professor and cultural historian Michael Keane reveals much in this nostalgia-inducing book packed with original research and interviews. Keane compellingly shows that the ultimate broadcast of the Christmas special—given its incredibly tight five-month production schedule and the decidedly unfavorable reception it received by the skeptical network executives who first screened it—was nothing short of a miracle. Keane explains why the show, despite its technical shortcomings, has become an uplifting and enduring triumph embraced by millions of families every Christmas season, even more than fifty years after its premiere. This gripping and joyful behind-the-scenes story of how the creators of A Charlie Brown Christmas struggled to bring the program to life will also help readers (and loyal fans) understand how America's favorite Christmas special changed our popular culture forever. Keane masterfully weaves the momentous events of 1965 (the turbulent year of the program's production) into his story, providing critical context for a profound new understanding of the program's famous climactic scene, Linus's spot-lit soliloquy answering the question repeatedly posed by Charlie Brown—"Isn't there anyone who knows what Christmas is all about?"Oscar wars: A history of hollywood in gold, sweat, and tears
Par Michael Schulman. 2023
The author of the New York Times bestseller Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep returns with a lively history of the…
Academy Awards, focusing on the brutal battles, the starry rivalries, and the colorful behind-the-scenes drama. America does not have royalty. It has the Academy Awards. For nine decades, perfectly coiffed starlets, debonair leading men, and producers with gold in their eyes have chased the elusive Oscar. What began as an industry banquet in 1929 has now exploded into a hallowed ceremony, complete with red carpets, envelopes, and little gold men. But don't be fooled by the pomp: the Oscars, more than anything, are a battlefield, where the history of Hollywood—and of America itself—unfolds in dramas large and small. The road to the Oscars may be golden, but it's paved in blood, sweat, and broken hearts. In Oscar Wars, Michael Schulman chronicles the remarkable, sprawling history of the Academy Awards and the personal dramas—some iconic, others never-before-revealed—that have played out on the stage and off camera. Unlike other books on the subject, each chapter takes a deep dive into a particular year, conflict, or even category that tells a larger story of cultural change, from Louis B. Mayer to Moonlight. Schulman examines how the red carpet runs through contested turf, and the victors aren't always as clear as the names drawn from envelopes. Caught in the crossfire are people: their thwarted ambitions, their artistic epiphanies, their messy collaborations, their dreams fulfilled or dashed. Featuring a star-studded cast of some of the most powerful Hollywood players of today and yesterday, as well as outsiders who stormed the palace gates, this captivating history is a collection of revelatory tales, each representing a turning point for the Academy, for the movies, or for the culture at largeMonsters: A fan's dilemma
Par Claire Dederer. 2023
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK • A timely, passionate, provocative, blisteringly smart interrogation of how…
we make and experience art in the age of cancel culture, and of the link between genius and monstrosity. Can we love the work of controversial classic and contemporary artists but dislike the artist? "A lively, personal exploration of how one might think about the art of those who do bad things" — Vanity Fair " Monsters leaves us with Dederer’s passionate commitment to the artists whose work most matters to her, and a framework to address these questions about the artists who matter most to us." — The Washington Post "[Dederer] breaks new ground, making a complex cultural conversation feel brand new." —Ada Calhoun, author of Also a Poet From the author of the New York Times best seller Poser and the acclaimed memoir Love and Trouble, Monsters is "part memoir, part treatise, and all treat" ( The New York Times ). This unflinching, deeply personal book expands on Claire Dederer’s instantly viral Paris Review essay, "What Do We Do with the Art of Monstrous Men?" Can we love the work of artists such as Hemingway, Sylvia Plath, Miles Davis, Polanski, or Picasso? Should we? Dederer explores the audience's relationship with artists from Michael Jackson to Virginia Woolf, asking: How do we balance our undeniable sense of moral outrage with our equally undeniable love of the work? Is male monstrosity the same as female monstrosity? And if an artist is also a mother, does one identity inexorably, and fatally, interrupt the other? In a more troubling vein, she wonders if an artist needs to be a monster in order to create something great. Does genius deserve special dispensation? Does art have a mandate to depict the darker elements of the psyche? And what happens if the artist stares too long into the abyss? Highly topical, morally wise, honest to the core, Monsters is certain to incite a conversation about whether and how we can separate artists from their artOscar hammerstein ii and the invention of the musical
Par Laurie Winer. 2023
You know his work-Show Boat, Oklahoma!, Carousel, The King and I. But you don't really know Oscar Hammerstein II, the…
man who, more than anyone else, invented the American musical. Among the most commercially successful artists of his time, he was a fighter for social justice who constantly prodded his audiences to be better than they were. Diving deep into Hammerstein's life, examining his papers and his lyrics, critic Laurie Winer shows how he orchestrated a collective reimagining of America, urging it forward with a subtly progressive vision of the relationship between country and city, rich and poor, America and the rest of the world. His rejection of bitterness, his openness to strangers, and his optimistic humor shaped not only the musical but the American dream itself. His vision can continue to be a touchstone to this dayBottoms up and the devil laughs: A journey through the deep state
Par Kerry Howley. 2023
A wild, humane, and hilarious meditation on post-privacy America—from the acclaimed author of Thrown "At 25, [Reality] Winner—yoga teacher, beloved…
sister, AR-15 owner—was sentenced to five years in prison for leaking classified documents about a Russian election attack. Howley deftly analyzes the brutal, surreal conditions that underlie this drama and the way that they implicate all of us." —Glamour Who are you? You are data about data. You are a map of connections—a culmination of everything you have ever posted, searched, emailed, liked, and followed. In this groundbreaking work of narrative nonfiction, Kerry Howley investigates the curious implications of living in the age of the indelible. Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs tells the true story of intelligence specialist Reality Winner, a lone young woman who stuffs a state secret under her skirt and trusts the wrong people to help. After printing five pages of dangerous information she was never supposed to see, Winner finds herself at the mercy of forces more invasive than she could have possibly imagined. Following Winner’s unlikely journey from rural Texas to a federal courtroom, Howley maps a hidden world, drawing in John Walker Lindh, Lady Gaga, Edward Snowden, a rescue dog named Outlaw Babyface Nelson, and a mother who will do whatever it takes to get her daughter out of jail. Howley’s subjects face a challenge new to history: they are imprisoned by their past selves, trapped for as long as the Internet endures. A soap opera set in the deep state, Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs is a free fall into a world where everything is recorded and nothing is sacred, from a singular writer unafraid to ask essential questions about the strangeness of modern lifeDominion: The Railway and the Rise of Canada
Par Stephen Bown. 2023
Stephen R. Bown continues to revitalize Canadian history with this thrilling account of the engineering triumph that created a nation.In…
The Company, his bestselling work of revisionist history, Stephen Bown told the dramatic, adventurous and bloody tale of Canada's origins in the fur trade. With Dominion he continues the nation's creation story with an equally gripping and eye-opening account of the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway.In the late 19th century, demand for fur was in sharp decline. This could have spelled economic disaster for the venerable Hudson's Bay Company. But an idea emerged in political and business circles in Ottawa and Montreal to connect the disparate British colonies into a single entity that would stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific. With over 3,000 kilometers of track, much of it driven through wildly inhospitable terrain, the CPR would be the longest railway in the world and the most difficult to build. Its construction was the defining event of its era and a catalyst for powerful global forces.The times were marked by greed, hubris, blatant empire building, oppression, corruption and theft. They were good for some, hard for most, disastrous for others. The CPR enabled a new country, but it came at a terrible price.In recent years Canadian history has been given a rude awakening from the comforts of its myths. In Dominion, Stephen Bown again widens our view of the past to include the adventures and hardships of explorers and surveyors, the resistance of Indigenous peoples, and the terrific and horrific work of many thousands of labourers. His vivid portrayal of the powerful forces that were molding the world in the late 19th century provides a revelatory new picture of modern Canada's creation as an independent state.