Arsenal Pulp Press imprint: 223 books
Victims of Benevolence
The Dark Legacy of the Williams Lake Residential School
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2002
An unsettling study of two tragic events at an Indian residential school in British Columbia which serve as a microcosm of the profound impact the residential school system had on Aboriginal communities in Canada throughout this century. The book's focal points are the death of a runaway boy and the...
Lust Unearthed
Vintage Gay Graphics From the DuBek Collection
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2012
On the heels of his bestselling and award-winning book Out/Lines: Underground Gay Graphics From Before Stonewall, Thomas Waugh offers more historic and erotically charged drawings, depicting aspects of gay male sexuality that were once hidden from public view. The more than 200, never-before-published...
The Everyday Vegan
Recipes & Lessons for Living the Vegan Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2002
Dreena Burton demonstrates that anyone can prepare an array of delectable vegan dishes without compromising one’s health or sense of taste. The Everyday Vegan includes recipes as well as cooking and shopping tips, meal plan suggestions, and nutritional analyses.
by Fraser Nixon
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
In this fast and furious crime novel set in 1983, a sex worker named Irina absconds with a shipment of drugs and $300,000 in dirty money, setting into motion a wild chain reaction involving bounty hunters, corrupt cops, low-brow scammers, and her bewildered, straight-laced ex-husband. Add to this...
Out of the Darkness
Teens Talk About Suicide
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2004
Teen suicide has long been considered one of society’s darkest secrets; the idea of troubled young people driven to take their own lives was a tragedy too horrible to contemplate, let alone talk about openly. But the fact remains that teen suicide is an issue that refuses to go away so long as young...
Blood, Sweat and Fear
The Story of Inspector Vance, A Pioneer Forensics Investigator
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
Heralded internationally as "Canada's Sherlock Holmes," John Vance was an innovative and groundbreaking forensic investigator. Over 42 years beginning in the 1930s, Vance helped police detectives in British Columbia to determine murder from suicide as well as solve hit-and-runs, safecrackings, and some of the most sensational murder cases of the twentieth century.
Dead Reckoning
How I Came to Meet the Man Who Murdered My Father
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
A powerful and emotional memoir about a woman whose father was brutally murdered at home by an intruder. Twenty years later, she decides to contact his murderer in prison, and learns startling new information about the crime. Dead Reckoning follows the author’s determination to confront the man who destroyed her world in order to find peace.
Anarchy and Art
From the Paris Commune to the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
One of the powers of art is its ability to convey the human aspects of political events. In this fascinating survey on art, artists, and anarchism, Allan Antliff interrogates critical moments when anarchist artists have confronted pivotal events over the past 140 years. The survey begins with Gustave...
Seeing Reds
The Red Scare of 1918-1919: Canadas First War on Terror
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
At the end of World War I, Canada was poised on the brink of social revolution. At least that is what many Canadians, inspired by the Russian Revolution, hoped and others dreaded. Seeing Reds documents a turbulent period in Canadian history, when in 1918-19 a fearful government tried to suppress radical political activity by branding legitimate labor leaders as Bolsheviks.”
Fire
A Queer Film Classic
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
A Queer Film Classic: the 1996 film by Indian-born director Deepa Mehta, about the burgeoning relationship between the wives of two brothers; its unprecedented lesbian themes led to riots outside cinemas in India.
by Casey Plett
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
WINNER, Lambda Literary Award; Firecracker Award for Fiction; $60,000 Amazon Canada First Novel Award
When thirty-year-old trans woman Wendy Reimer comes across evidence that her late grandfather—a devout Mennonite farmer—might have been transgender himself, she dismisses this revelation,...
by Clint Burnham
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
A doll taped to the hood of a wedding car. A list of favorite cocktails from the eighties. Hide the drugs from your parents and your kids. Kevin Costner in Waterworld: hot or not? Smoke Show is a novel that will astound readers with its audacious, stripped-down narrative set in the mid-nineties about...
The Last Genet
A Writer in Revolt
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
The final decades of Jean Genet’s life were preoccupied with the struggles of the disenfranchised: the Black Panthers, Baader-Meinhoff, and the Palestinians. Laroche’s book is a careful philosophical and historical reading of these groups and Genet’s relation to them.
by Dina Del Bucchia
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
These funny, strange stories are populated by people trying to find ways to relate to the real world. Sometimes they succeed and sometimes they fail, and sometimes they end up in a slapstick sex scene that climaxes with a broken table. The book embraces characters who are flawed, emotional, and who care too much about things that are ridiculous.