Goose Lane Editions Winter 2019 Image: Paul Wallez, Unsplash.com 2018 Award Nominees 2018 A National Bestseller Winner, Best Atlantic-Published Book Award Winner, CMA Award 9781773100210 pb | $35 Shortlisted, Best Atlantic-Published Book Award English 9780864929747 hc | $45 French 9780864929754 hc | $45 Inuktitut 9780864929761 hc | $45 with The Rooms Corporation Shortlisted, Democracy 250 Award Shortlisted, Kobo Emerging Writer Shortlisted, Taste Canada Awards Prize Shortlisted, New Brunswick Book 9781773100050 pb | $18.95 Award for Non-Fiction 9781773100067 e | $18.95 9780864929945 pb | $22.95 CAN Longlisted, RBC Taylor Prize 9781773100074 k | $18.95 9780864929952 e | $19.95 CAN with the Gregg Centre 9780864929969 k| $19.95 CAN 9780864929617 pb | $24.95 CAN for the Study of War and Society 9780864929501 e | $19.95 CAN 9780864929518 k | $19.95 CAN 9781773100418 pb | $22.95 CAN 286 pages, 6 x 9 Index March 2019 Politics Rights held: Canada Also appearing as an eBook: 9781773100425 e | $19.95 CAN 9781773100432 k | $19.95 CAN • ARCs • National review copy and press release distribution • National advertising • National media relations • National speaking tour and in-conversation events • Pre-publication excerpts • Co-op available Too Dumb for Democracy? Why We Make Bad Political Decisions and How We Can Make Better Ones DAVID MOSCROP Brexit. Trump. Ford Nation. In this timely book, David Moscrop asks why we make irrational political decisions and whether our stone-age brains can process democracy in the information age. In an era overshadowed by income inequality, environmental catastrophes, terrorism at home and abroad, and the decline of democracy, Moscrop argues that the political decision-making process has never been more important. In fact, our survival may depend on it. Drawing on both political science and psychology, Moscrop examines how our brains, our environment, the media, and institutions influence decision-making. Making good decisions is not impossible, Moscrop argues, but the psychological and political odds are sometimes stacked against us. In this readable and provocative investigation of our often-flawed decisions, Moscrop explains what’s going wrong in today’s political landscape and how individuals, societies, and institutions can work together to set things right. DAVID MOSCROP is a political theorist with an interest in democratic deliberation and citizenship. He is a regular political commentator on television and radio. His writing has appeared in numerous newspapers and magazines including Maclean’s, the Washington Post, the Globe and Mail, and the National Post. Winter 2019 3 Cool Ideas, Hot Topics 9781773100388 pb | $22.95 CAN Shortlisted, Donner Prize 9780864928702 pb | $19.95 CAN 9781773100395 e | $19.95 CAN Shortlisted, Evelyn Richardson Non-Fiction 9780864927521 e | $19.95 CAN 9781773100401 k | $19.95 CAN Award 9780864928313 k | $19.95 CAN 9780864920751 hc | $32.95 CAN 9781773100463 pb | $22.95 CAN 9780864928023 e | $19.95 CAN 9780864925725 k | $19.95 CAN 9780864928986 pb | $22.95 CAN A National Bestseller 9780864929693 pb | $22.95 CAN 9780864929365 e | $19.95 CAN Winner, New Brunswick Book Award 9780864929709 e | $19.95 CAN 9780864929372 k | $19.95 CAN for Non-Fiction 9780864929716 k | $19.95 CAN Shortlisted, Arthur Ellis Crime Book Award 9780864929211 pb | $19.95 9780864929402 e | $19.95 9780864929419 k | $19.95 4 GOOSE LANE EDITIONS 9781773100630 pb | $22.95 276 pages, 6 x 9 Illustrated February 2019 Memoir | Aviation Rights held: World Also appearing as an eBook: 9781773100647 e | $19.95 9781773100654 k | $19.95 • ARCs • National review copy and press release distribution • National and specialty advertising • National media relations • Launch events and speaking tour • Pre-publication excerpts • Social media campaign • Co-op available Airborne Finding Foxtrot Alpha Mike JONATHAN ROTONDO In the sanctum of a tiny single-seat biplane, a DSA-1 Smith Miniplane, Antonio Rotondo discovered the miracle of flight. A farmer’s son from San Giacomo, Italy, Antonio took his first flight over Nairobi, Kenya, in 1970 at the age of 24. By 1976, he had become a commercial pilot. Then, in the early 1980s, he purchased a single-seat, open-cockpit, home-built Smith biplane, a throwback to leather flying caps, gauntlets, pencil-thin moustaches, and twinkling eyes behind oil-speckled goggles. More than three decades later, Antonio’s son, Jonathan, came across one of only three airworthy Smith biplanes and thus began a journey to retrace his father’s airborne life. He finds Antonio’s first flying instructor, an Australian ex-pat living in Kenya; the soft- spoken Swiss-Canadian who managed to get Antonio’s biplane into the air; the free- spirit dreamer who bought it to dogfight with his mates; and the air traffic controller who, as a teenager, bought the plans to build the biplane that Jonathan would fly 35 years later. In this story of a father and son, Jonathan catches fleeting glimpses of his father’s life in the air and rediscovers his own passion for flight. All the while he captures “the rush of speed, the exhilaration of the wind’s breath rushing through the cockpit and, along the fabric flanks, the surreal sensation of gravity’s pull and lift’s might.” JONATHAN ROTONDO is an award-winning writer, recovering journalist, and biplane pilot who spent his childhood hanging off airport perimeter fences across Ontario and Quebec — a passion that spilled over into adulthood. He lives in Ottawa. Winter 2019 5 9781773101224 hc | $40 120 pages, 10.25 x 10.25 Illustrated, index December 2018 Art Rights held: World with Art Gallery of Ontario • Digital ARCs • National advertising • National media relations • Social media campaign • Co-op available Käthe Kollwitz According to the Truth Edited by BRENDA RIX Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945), a leading 20th century German artist, was known for her drawings, prints, and sculptures. In a career spanning more than five decades in a largely male-dominated art world, Kollwitz developed powerful and emotional imagery based on her own experiences, her interactions with working-class women in Berlin, and her exposure to the horrors of two world wars. While her naturalistic style at first appeared to be out of touch with the currents of abstraction that were becoming dominant during her lifetime, her depictions of universal human experiences, the depth and emotional power of her dense networks of lines and light and dark contrasts, were a potent reflection of her time that continue to resonate today. Kollwitz’s compassion for those in need resulted in international renown. Today she is one of Germany’s best-known artists of the 20th century. Her name evokes images of bereaved mothers, ailing, fatherless children, and anguished parents, but her reputations rests on her artistic talent and drive for experimentation in a wide range of media. This extraordinary publication examines the richness and depth of Kollwitz’s work and features more than 100 colour and black-and-white reproductions of her engravings, drawings, and sculptures, largely drawn from the collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario, as well as essays by Brenda Rix on Kollwitz’s life and art and by Brian McCrindle on building the Kollwitz collection. BRENDA RIX is a curator at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Brian McCrindle donated the Käthe Kollwitz collection to the AGO. 6 GOOSE LANE EDITIONS | ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO Winter 2019 7 9781773101231 hc | $40 120 pages, 10.25 x 10.25 Mickalene Thomas Illustrated, index Femmes Noires April 2019 Art Edited by ANDREA ANDERSSON and JULIE CROOKS Rights held: World with the Art Gallery of Ontario Mickalene Thomas’s vivid paintings, collages, and photographs explode off the wall. Their larger-than-life women stare back and down at the viewer, confronting them head on. Over the course of her prolific career, Thomas has created a body of work that • Digital ARCs expands notions of beauty, gender, sexuality, and race, offering a complex vision of what • National advertising it means to be a Black woman. • National media relations • Pre-publication excerpts In Femmes Noires, Thomas moves breezily between pop culture and the long history • Social media campaign of Western and African art, inserting images of Black women into iconic paintings. • Exhibition tie-in At times she poses them nude; at other times, she draws on elements as diverse as • Co-op available 1970s black-is-beautiful images of women, Édouard Manet’s odalisque figures, the mise-en-scène studio portraiture of James Van Der Zee and Malick Sidibé, and her own collection of personal portraits and staged scenes. Her ability to detect and contain contradictions and to wrestle with stereotypes translates into powerful, self-possessed depictions of Black women that confront and subvert stereotypes. Femmes Noires is a bold examination of Thomas’s work and her artistic practise at an important moment in history. It blends writing from iconic Black writers and essayists (Alice Walker, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Edwidge Danticat, and Lorraine O’Grady) with 120 reproductions from Thomas’s œuvre (collages, paintings, film stills, and photographs). Original essays by Andrea Andersson, visual arts curator of the Contemporary Art Center of New Orleans; Julie Crooks, curator at the Art Gallery of above: Ontario; and writer-art critic Antwaun Sargent complete the book. MICKALENE THOMAS Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe: Les trois femmes noires, 2010 Mickalene Thomas: Femmes Noires accompanies an international touring exhibition Rhinestones, acrylic, and