Ancient Hindu scriptures proclaim that some "longing in the darkness" propelled our world.

In his satiric poem Don Juan, Lord Byron refigures the legend as a man easily seduced by women.

Dead Souls is a socially critical black comedy.

Man is just what he thinks himself to be; he is big in capacity if he thinks big thoughts; he is small if he thinks small thoughts.

In Contract with the World, the setting is Vancouver, and the time is the mid-1970s.

I have often been asked how I first came to be a regular opium-eater, and have suffered.

There is in every human being a sense which is not generally recognized as such, although nearly every person has had more or less experience regarding its workings.

Although society is becoming more tolerant of gay people, and even accepting of them in some places.

Neil Young is one of Canada's great exports, his contribution to rock music.

H. G. Wells' Ann Veronica, first published in 1909, looks at political and feminist issues.

What happens when would-be dyke moms or gay dads ask a friend or acquaintance to donate sperm.

Alien Invasion is the first critical look at the past eight years of Tory rule in Ontario.

A Treatise of Human Nature, first published between 1739 and 1740, is a philosophical text.

Sara Crewe's young but doting father sends her to a London boarding school when she is seven.