Sound--At the Interregnum
The Alchemy Lecture 2025
$47.53
- Hardcover
184 pages
- Release Date
20 October 2026
Summary
Four Alchemists. One book. A constellation of ideas. The fourth annual ALCHEMY LECTURE features award-winning fiction writers, a lauded scholar, and a prize-winning musician in an astonishing, immersive investigation of the meaning of sound in this moment in the world’s soundtrack.
Sound—at the Interregnum asks: What are the sounds you make? What are the sounds you want to make? What are the sounds you need to make? What are the sounds you need to leave to a world on the cusp…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781039059610 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1039059619 |
| Author: | Canisia Lubrin, Glen Coulthard, Madeleine Thien |
| Publisher: | Random House Canada |
| Imprint: | Knopf Canada |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 184 |
| Release Date: | 20 October 2026 |
| Weight: | 567g |
| Dimensions: | 131mm x 203mm |
| Series: | The Alchemy Lecture |
Canisia Lubrin
CHRISTINA SHARPE is a Canada Research Chair in Black Studies in the Humanities at York University. She is the author of In the Wake: On Blackness and Being; Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects; and Ordinary Notes.
GLEN COULTHARD is Yellowknives Dene, an associate professor in the First Nations and Indigenous Studies Program at the University of British Columbia, and the author of Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition. He is also a co-founder of Dechinta Centre for Research and Learning, operating on his traditional territories in Denendeh (Northwest Territories).
CANISIA LUBRIN is an acclaimed poet, editor, and fiction writer. Her poetry book The Dyzgraphxst won the Griffin Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award, and her fiction, Code Noir, won the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction and was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award. Lubrin is the Poetry Editor at McClelland & Stewart and coordinator of the University of Guelph Creative Writing MFA.
MADELEINE THIEN is the author of a story collection, Simple Recipes, and four novels, including Do Not Say We Have Nothing, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the Women’s Prize for Fiction, and the Folio Prize, and won the Governor-General’s Literary Award for Fiction, among other honours. She was a Cullman Fellow at The New York Public Library, and in 2024 received the Engel-Findley Award from the Writers’ Trust of Canada. Born in Vancouver, Madeleine lives in Montreal.
IMMANUEL WILKINS is a saxophonist, composer, and educator who burst onto the musical scene with his Blue Note debut, Omega, which was named the best jazz release of 2020 by the New York Times. In 2022, Wilkins released his sophomore album on Blue Note, The 7th Hand, which topped numerous year-end lists. In 2024 Wilkins released his third recording to date: Blues Blood, co-produced by Meshell Ndegeocello. It was nominated for best international recording of the year, and Wilkins was named by Jazz News and Jazz Magazine as the best international jazz musician of the year.
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