Winter: Five Windows on the Season

Winter
Five Windows on the Season

Author	Adam Gopnik
Language	English
Genre	Nonfiction
Publisher	House of Anansi Press
Publication date	October 2011
Publication place	Canada
Media type	Print (Paperback), Audio
Pages	256 pp.
ISBN	978-0-88784-974-9
OCLC	732948892
Preceded by	Player 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.