Winter: Five Windows on the Season

Winter
Five Windows on the Season
AuthorAdam Gopnik
LanguageEnglish
GenreNonfiction
PublisherHouse of Anansi Press
Publication date
October 2011
Publication placeCanada
Media typePrint (Paperback), Audio
Pages256 pp.
ISBN978-0-88784-974-9
OCLC732948892
Preceded byPlayer One: What Is to Become of Us 

Winter: Five Windows on the Season is a nonfiction book written by Adam Gopnik for the 2011 Massey Lectures. Each of the book's five chapters had been delivered as a one-hour lecture discussing artistic portrayals of winter: its impact on culture and societies, polar exploration, and winter recreation. Each lecture was held in a different Canadian city: Montreal on October 12, Halifax on October 14, Edmonton on October 21, Vancouver on October 23, and ending in Toronto on October 26. The book was published by House of Anansi Press while the lectures were broadcast on CBC Radio One's Ideas between November 7 and 11.

While Gopnik was raised in Montreal, by 2011 he worked as a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine in New York City. Gopnik selected 'winter' as his general topic and spent nearly a year preparing for the lectures.