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Sound’s power: protest, creation, and survival in a world changing.

Sound--At the Interregnum

The Alchemy Lecture 2025

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  • Hardcover

    184 pages

  • Release Date

    20 October 2026

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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 …

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:138mm x 212mm
Series:The Alchemy Lecture
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About The Author

Canisia Lubrin

CHRISTINA SHARPE

Christina Sharpe is the organizer of THE ALCHEMY LECTURE, a partnership between York University and Knopf Canada. She is the Canada Research Chair in Black Studies in the Humanities at York University and the author of In the Wake: On Blackness and Being, Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects, and Ordinary Notes.

GLEN COULTHARD

Glen Coulthard is Yellowknives Dene, an associate professor in the First Nations and Indigenous Studies Program at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition and a co-founder of Dechinta Centre for Research and Learning, which operates on his traditional territories in Denendeh (Northwest Territories).

CANISIA LUBRIN

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. 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

Madeleine Thien is the author of the story collection Simple Recipes and four novels, including Do Not Say We Have Nothing. This novel 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 honors. She was a Cullman Fellow at The New York Public Library and received the Engel-Findley Award from the Writers’ Trust of Canada in 2024. Born in Vancouver, Madeleine lives in Montreal.

IMMANUEL WILKINS

Immanuel Wilkins is a saxophonist, composer, and educator. He gained recognition with his Blue Note debut, Omega, 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. His third recording, Blues Blood, co-produced by Meshell Ndegeocello, was released in 2024 and nominated for best international recording of the year. Wilkins was named best international jazz musician of the year by Jazz News and Jazz Magazine.

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