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Tue Jun 14 • 7:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral
Run Towards the Danger
with Sarah Polley
Play Now
Podcast
Non-Fiction
Memoir
Episode 04 • Tue May 10
Easy Beauty
with Chloe Cooper Jones
Podcast
Non-Fiction
History
Episode 03 • Tue May 10
The Nutmeg's Curse
with Amitav Ghosh
Podcast
Politics
Non-Fiction
Science
Episode 02 • Tue May 3
This Is Assisted Dying
with Dr. Stefanie Green
Live Online Event
Non-Fiction
Science
Tue Apr 26 • 7:00pm
The Power of Teamwork
With Dr. Brian Goldman
Live Online Event
Fiction
Politics
Non-Fiction
Science
History
Poetry
Memoir
Tue Apr 19 • 7:00pm
Spotlight on our Virtual Seasons: Keeping Connected While Maintaining our Distance
Live Online Event
Politics
Non-Fiction
History
Tue Apr 12 • 7:30pm
The Next Civil War
With Stephen Marche
Live Online Event
Non-Fiction
History
Tue Mar 29 • 8:00pm
What Would Freedom Look Like?
With Rinaldo Walcott, Clayton Thomas-Mueller and Mona Eltahawy
Live Online Event
Politics
Non-Fiction
History
Tue Mar 22 • 7:00pm
Who is Served and What is Protected?
With Desmond Cole and Brandi Morin
Live Online Event
Politics
Non-Fiction
History
Tue Nov 30 • 7:00pm
Writing and Activism: Words in Action
with Monia Mazigh
Live Online Event
Non-Fiction
Tue Nov 9 • 7:30pm
Me Tomorrow: Indigenous Views on the Future
with Drew Hayden Taylor, Norma Dunning and Darrel J. McLeod
Live Online Event
Politics
Non-Fiction
Mon Nov 1 • 7:30pm
Between Certain Death and a Possible Future
With Alexander McClelland, Eddie Walker, Kate Doyle Griffiths and Ryan Conrad
Live Online Event
Non-Fiction
Wed Oct 27 • 7:30pm
My Best Mistake
with Terry O’Reilly
Podcast
Non-Fiction
Episode 19 • Fri Oct 22
Nice White Ladies
with Jessie Daniels
Live Online Event
Fiction
Non-Fiction
Poetry
Wed Oct 20 • 6:00pm
THE OTTAWA BOOK AWARDS & PRIX DU LIVRE D’OTTAWA
Live Online Event
Politics
Non-Fiction
Mon Oct 18 • 7:30pm
The Class
with Chris Hedges
Live Online Event
Non-Fiction
History
Sun Oct 17 • 7:00pm
Books and Biryani: A Muslim History of the Americas
with Omar Mouallem
Podcast
Non-Fiction
Science
Episode 18 • Fri Oct 15
On the Origin of the Deadliest Pandemic in 100 Years
with Elaine Dewar
Live Online Event
Non-Fiction
Memoir
Thu Oct 7 • 7:30pm
An Embarrassment of Critch’s
with Mark Critch
Live Online Event
Non-Fiction
History
Memoir
Tue Oct 5 • 7:30pm
BOOK LAUNCH: Off the Record
with Peter Mansbridge
Live Online Event
Politics
Non-Fiction
Mon Oct 4 • 7:30pm
Out of the Sun: On Art, Race, and the Future
with Esi Edugyan
Live Online Event
Politics
Non-Fiction
History
Memoir
Wed Sep 29 • 7:30pm
Return
with Kamal Al-Solaylee
Live Online Event
Politics
Non-Fiction
Memoir
Thu Sep 23 • 7:30pm
"Indian" in the Cabinet
with Jody Wilson Raybould
Podcast
Non-Fiction
Science
Episode 5 • Fri Sep 3
How to Be Animal
with Melanie Challenger
Podcast
Non-Fiction
History
Memoir
Episode 2 • Fri Aug 20
Better Not Bitter
with Yusef Salaam
Live Online Event
Fiction
Non-Fiction
History
Poetry
Sun Jun 20 • 7:30pm
Gather
with Richard Van Camp
Live Online Event
Non-Fiction
Science
Fri Jun 18 • 7:30pm
The Menopause Manifesto
With Dr. Jen Gunter
Podcast
Non-Fiction
Memoir
Episode 28 • Fri Jun 18
The Bright Side
with Cathrin Bradbury
Podcast
Non-Fiction
Memoir
Episode 27 • Fri Jun 18
Likeness
with David Macfarlane
Podcast
Non-Fiction
Science
Episode 25 • Fri Jun 11
Change: How to Make Big Things Happen
with Damon Centola
Live Online Event
Non-Fiction
Thu May 27 • 7:00pm
One Page: The Window Seat
with Aminatta Forna
Live Online Event
Fiction
Non-Fiction
Poetry
Memoir
Thu May 13 • 7:00pm
One Page: Goodbye, Again
with Jonny Sun
Podcast
Non-Fiction
History
Episode 17 • Fri May 7
Elizabeth & Margaret
with Andrew Morton
Podcast
Non-Fiction
Science
History
Episode 16 • Fri Apr 30
On Time and Water
with Andri Snaer Magnason
Live Online Event
Politics
Non-Fiction
Mon Apr 26 • 7:30pm
Take Back the Fight
with Nora Loreto
Live Online Event
Politics
Non-Fiction
Science
Mon Apr 19 • 7:30pm
A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency
with Seth Klein
Live Online Event
Politics
Non-Fiction
Science
Mon Apr 12 • 7:30pm
The New Climate War
with Michael E. Mann
Live Online Event
Non-Fiction
History
Mon Mar 29 • 7:30pm
Peyakow: Reclaiming Cree Dignity
With Darrel J. McLeod
Podcast
Non-Fiction
History
Episode 10 • Fri Mar 26
Four Lost Cities
with Annalee Newitz
Live Online Event
Politics
Non-Fiction
Mon Mar 22 • 7:30pm
Neglected No More: The Urgent Need to Improve the Lives of Canada's Elders
with André Picard
Podcast
Politics
Non-Fiction
Episode 8 • Fri Mar 19
The Deficit Myth
with Stephanie Kelton
Live Online Event
Politics
Non-Fiction
History
Mon Mar 8 • 7:30pm
White Feminism
with Koa Beck
Live Online Event
Politics
Non-Fiction
History
Tue Mar 2 • 7:30pm
The New Age of Empire
with Kehinde Andrews
Live Online Event
Politics
Non-Fiction
Thu Feb 25 • 7:30pm
Can You Hear Me Now?
with Celina Caesar-Chavannes
Live Online Event
Politics
Non-Fiction
History
Mon Feb 22 • 7:30pm
On Property
with Rinaldo Walcott
Live Online Event
Non-Fiction
Thu Dec 10 • 7:00pm
One Page: Wow No Thank You
Samantha Irby
Podcast
Non-Fiction
Youth
Episode 29 • Fri Dec 4
Breathing Life into Art and Art into Life, The Art of Is
with Stephen Nachmanovitch
Podcast
Non-Fiction
Science
Youth
Episode 28 • Tue Dec 1
The Challenges Facing Canada in Protecting the Well Being of Children
Featuring Kim Hellemans and Jane Bertrand
Podcast
Politics
Non-Fiction
Youth
Episode 27 • Fri Nov 27
Student Activism and the Climate Crisis
Featuring Vidya Shah and Alexis Benns
Podcast
Non-Fiction
Youth
Episode 15 • Tue Nov 24
Education and Social Mobility
with Andy Hargreaves
Podcast
Politics
Non-Fiction
History
Memoir
Episode 23 • Tue Nov 17
Yes, It's Systemic
Featuring Eternity Martis and Tessa McWatt
Pre-Recorded Event
Non-Fiction
Music
Sun Nov 15
She Come By It Natural
with Sarah Smarsh
Podcast
Politics
Non-Fiction
History
Episode 21 • Wed Nov 11
Fighting for Peace
Featuring Tim Cook and Scott Anderson
Podcast
Non-Fiction
Memoir
Episode 20 • Fri Nov 6
A Life with Books, Writers and Virago:
Emma Donoghue in conversation with Lennie Goodings
Pre-Recorded Event
Non-Fiction
Science
Sun Nov 1
Entangled Life
with Merlin Sheldrake
Pre-Recorded Event
Politics
Non-Fiction
History
Memoir
Sun Oct 25
The Education of an Idealist
with Samantha Power
Pre-Recorded Event
Non-Fiction
Science
Poetry
Sun Oct 25
The Lost Spells
with Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris
Podcast
Non-Fiction
Memoir
Episode 15 • Tue Oct 20
Letting Go of Anxiety
with Tara Henley
Pre-Recorded Event
Politics
Non-Fiction
History
Sun Oct 18
War: How Conflict Shaped Us
with Margaret MacMillan
Live Online Event
Politics
Non-Fiction
History
Tue Oct 13 • 7:30pm
Ending Inequality
with Thomas Philippon
Pre-Recorded Event
Non-Fiction
Memoir
Sun Oct 11
One on One
With Pico Iyer
Live Online Event
Politics
Non-Fiction
History
Mon Oct 5 • 7:30pm
Missing from the Village
with Justin Ling
Live Online Event
Non-Fiction
History
Memoir
Mon Sep 28 • 7:30pm
Among the Volunteers and Refugees on Lesvos
with Steven Heighton
Pre-Recorded Event
Politics
Non-Fiction
Science
Sun Sep 27
Commanding Hope
with Thomas Homer-Dixon
Podcast
Non-Fiction
Science
Memoir
Episode 08 • Fri Sep 25
Neurodiversity and The Ever-Changing Brain
Featuring Sarah Kurchak and David Eagleman
Podcast
Non-Fiction
History
Memoir
Episode 06 • Fri Sep 18
Marathon of Hope
with Darrell Fox
Pre-Recorded Event
Non-Fiction
History
Sun Sep 13
Magdalena: River of Dreams
with Wade Davis
Live Online Event
Non-Fiction
Science
Tue Sep 8 • 7:30pm
Nerve
with Eva Holland
Pre-Recorded Event
Politics
Non-Fiction
History
Sun Sep 6
Twilight of Democracy
with Anne Applebaum
Pre-Recorded Event
Non-Fiction
Science
History
Sun Aug 23
Transcendence: How Humans Evolved through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time
with Gaia Vince
Pre-Recorded Event
Non-Fiction
History
Memoir
Sun Aug 23
A History of My Brief Body
with Billy-Ray Belcourt
Pre-Recorded Event
Non-Fiction
Science
Thu Jun 4
Virtual Book Launch: On Pandemics
With Dr. David Waltner-Toews
Live Online Event
Politics
Non-Fiction
Tue May 26 • 1:00pm
Ending Poverty
With Hugh Segal