WINTER

New Yorker columnist Adam Gopnik has the distinction of delivering the 50th anniversary edition of the CBC Massey Lectures. He has chosen to address winter - the season, the space, the spirit, the cycle.

WINTER takes us on an intimate tour of the artists, poets, composers, writers, explorers, scientists, and thinkers, who helped shape a new and modern idea of winter. Here we learn how literature heralds the arrival of the middle class; how snow science leads to existential questions of God and our place in the world; how the race to the poles marks the human drive to imprint meaning on a blank space.

Deeply engaging and intellectual, Gopnik has created a stunningly beautiful meditation buoyed by his trademark gentle wit.

Adam Gopnik is the author of the international bestseller Paris to the Moon, and several other books. He has been writing for The New Yorker since 1986 and is a three-time winner of the National Magazine Award for Essays and for Criticism and the George Polk Award for Magazine Reporting.

WINTER: Five Windows on the Season will be produced as a deluxe 50th anniversary edition, including beautiful full-colour images printed on two 8-page inserts and with five different covers.