What do the words “vanilla,” “testify,” “porcelain,” “daisy,” and “tutu” have in common? Etymologically speaking, ...
By Mélanie Grondin
Non-Fiction
The Indian Act is the iconic statute that defines the relationship between First peoples and everyone else ...
By D.L. Daigneault
In his most recent book, A Place in Mind: The Search for Authenticity, Montreal architect and McGill ...
By Maria Schamis Turner
Countries, like people, can go a long way on their reputations. But according to Yves Engler, Canada’s reputation ...
By Leila Marshy
The flight of European artists from Hitler dramatically altered cultural life on both sides of the Atlantic. The ...
By Brian McMillan
Long before our present-day global thaw would make it feasible, western nations dreamed of trading with the Far ...
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The attacks of September 11, 2001 changed the way people from many countries viewed their place in the world. ...
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"History will record that the criminal instigators to riot and bloodshed … had the shameless effrontery … to ...
By Kate Forrest
In The Empire Within, Sean Mills describes and analyzes a period of social turmoil in Montreal (from 1963 ...
By Eric Shragge
When does casual bedside reading qualify as legitimate Buddhist practice? How should devout spiritual ...
By Sarah Fletcher
In the memoir Italy Revisited: Conversations with My Mother, Mary Melfi takes up a daunting task: she sets ...
By Gina Roitman
Erin Mouré is known as a "difficult" poet. Her tendency to "push words forward and make them tumble" rarely lulls ...
By Anna Leventhal