Best Canadian Essays 2022

The 2023 edition of "Best Canadian Essays" showcases the best Canadian nonfiction writing published in 2021, exploring identity, war, illness, health, belonging, and alienation. The essays chart boundaries and offer a place for conversation between sides.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 288 pages
Publication date: 26 January 2023
Publisher: Biblioasis

Selected by editor Mireille Silcoff, the 2023 edition of Best Canadian Essays showcases the finest Canadian nonfiction writing published in 2021. In her introduction, Silcoff notes that our current, turbulent age is an important time for essayists, as it is in moments of great change that we need chroniclers with the presence of mind to step back and assess.

Silcoff's selections for Best Canadian Essays 2023 do just that. The essays gathered here explore various aspects of identity, including personal, familial, racial, and cultural identities, as well as the far-reaching consequences of war. They also delve into topics such as illness and health, belonging and alienation, parents and children, and unexpected discussions about novel writing, Donald Trump, and the Filet-O-Fish sandwich.

As Silcoff puts it, the essays in this collection "chart all kinds of boundaries, comprising a small bid for understanding that a border, a line drawn, need not be only the beginning or the end of something. That a frontier can be a place—indeed is the best place—for a conversation between sides to begin."

The featured works in this edition are by a diverse group of authors, including Jamaluddin Aram, Sharon Butala, Kunal Chaudhary, Christopher Cheung, Emma Gilchrist, Michelle Good, Paul Howe, Jane Hu, Heather Jessup, Chafic LaRochelle, Stephen Marche, Kathy Page, Tom Rachman, M.E. Rogan, Allan Stratton, and Sarmishta Subramanian.

Overall, the 2023 edition of Best Canadian Essays offers a captivating and thought-provoking exploration of the human experience, showcasing the power of nonfiction writing to shed light on the complexities of our world and spark meaningful conversations between different perspectives.

Dimension: 209 x 133 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781771965033