The Imagining Toronto Project

This website offers news and commentary about the Imagining Toronto project and the Imagining Toronto book (Mansfield Press, Fall 2010).

Imagining Toronto book cover

Visit the Imagining Toronto Library for an extensive and regularly updated list of literary works engaging with Toronto.

The Imagining Toronto course syllabus, lecture notes and related materials are accessible by clicking here.

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Week 5: Class Fictions

Toronto is a city wrapped in the rhythms of work. All night vehicle lights surge and recede along the urban expressways, as fluid as arteries and pulsating as if propelled by the city’s beating heart. At dawn packed buses wallow in the curb lane, moving like migrating manatees. An hour later the subway is stuffed [...]