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For more than a century, the vast lands of Northern Ontario have been shared among the governments of Canada, Ontario, and the First Nations who signed Treaty No. 9 in 1905. For just as long, details about the signing of the constitutionally recognized agreement have been known only through the accounts of … Read More >
What you may have missed this week at the MQUP…
Transatlantic Passages podcast – Global ideas on what it means to be Francophone
The Love Queen of Malabar on the Charles Taylor Prize Shortlist
Montreal's Writers' Chapel remembers John … Read More >
Bravo!News has interviewed Georges Leroux, author of Partita for Glenn Gould. Leroux's book explores the musician's life and art; it is an eloquent tribute to Gould that illuminates his versatile genius, his thinking, and our reasons for … Read More >
MQUP editor Mark Abley is today's guest blogger
In the fall of 2009 I joined a group of writers, artists, translators and teachers in a side chapel of St. James Anglican Church on Ste. Catherine St. in the heart of downtown Montreal. We were there for an odd, touching occasion – the … Read More >
The Love Queen of Malabar by Merrily Weisbord has been shortlisted for the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction.
The Charles Taylor Prize is awarded to Canadian authors whose books demonstrate "a superb command of the English language, an elegance of style and a subtlety of thought and perception."
The winner … Read More >
Authors of Transatlantic Passages Paula Ruth Gilbert and Miléna Santoro discuss how their book came to be in this Georgetown University podcast.
Their book presents essays, interviews, and images that address the often-neglected cultural commerce integral to understanding historical … Read More >
What you may have missed this week at the MQUP…
Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad and Tobago picked as one of Globe & Mail's best of 2010
The Weariness of the Self & The Language of the Inuit lands on Choice's 2010 … Read More >
Every year, Choice editors pick their favourite literary works. Their 2010 list of Outstanding Academic Titles features two MQUP books:
The Weariness of the Self: Diagnosing the History of Depression in the Contemporary Age by Alain Ehrenberg
Alain Ehrenberg investigates the history of depression and depressive symptoms across … Read More >
Montreal Serai reviews The Love Queen of Malabar: Memoir of a Friendship with Kamala Das by Merrily Weisbord.
What inspired Weisbord to undertake this circuitous literary journey? First it was Das’ work, which she found stunning, then her intriguing personality and finally the friendship born out of what prima … Read More >
The Globe and Mail recently enlisted 30 Canadian authors, editors, awards-givers to pick their best books of 2010. Contributor André Alexis, whose novel Childhood won the Books in Canada First Novel Award, picked Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad and Tobago as his 2010 (and perhaps the decade's) favourite: