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What you may have missed this week at the MQUP…
Maclean's reviews The Strange Demise of British Canada and highlights the long history of courting the ethnic vote
John Glassco as style icon
Poetry month at the MQUP continues
William St-Hilaire. Picture courtesy of the Globe and Mail
According to the Globe and Mail, William St-Hilaire, president and executive director of the international literary festival Blue Metropolis, currently counts The Love Queen of Malabar as one of her bedtime books.
In honour of poetry month we bring you weekly excerpts of some of our favourite poetry books. This week's entry comes from Blindfold by John Mikhail Asfour.
One fifth of the worldshifts,turns into imagesand the sight you once hadis replaced by a metaphor.The vision you scanned the world with … Read More >
John Glassco makes an appearance in this month's Men's Fashion:
John Glassco's Memoirs of Montparnasse is a classic in the literature generated by Paris in the 1920S, a time when Glassco, born in Montreal in 1909, got to hang with Ernest Hemingway and James Joyce. … Read More >
Maclean's reviews The Strange Demise of British Canada and highlights the long history of courting the ethnic vote.
In the late 1950s and 1960s, Champion writes, the party with the greatest success among new Canadians was the Conservatives, and it was the Liberals who needed to catch … Read More >
What you may have missed this week at the MQUP…
Booktryst reviews A Gentleman of Pleasure
Author Arthur Milnes on Jimmy Carter and Fukushima on CNN.com and The Economist
Author of Highway of the Atom, Peter van Wyck, on … Read More >
In Jewish Roots, Canadian Soil, Rebecca Margolis shows that Montreal’s vibrant Yiddish culture is the legacy of a driven group of the city’s Jews who devoted themselves to the revitalization of the Jewish community, creating a long-lasting infrastructure and institutions that have bolstered Yiddish identity.
The Gazette’s Peggy Curan sat down … Read More >
In honour of poetry month we'll be bringing you weekly excerpts of some of our favourite poetry books. The first entry comes from Particles by Michael Penny.
Your body absorbs a blowmakes a bruiseand the technicolour skin effect of it all.
How does it know it must heal?The body is … Read More >
The Economist recounts how Jimmy Carter's experience in Chalk River, Canada relates to Japan's current nuclear crisis.
Three weeks after Japan's earthquake and tsunami crippled the Fukushima nuclear power plant, spewing radiation as far as Iceland, clean-up crews have been working around the clock to bring the reactor under … Read More >
A Gentleman of Pleasure by Brian Busby is the first biography of Canada's most enigmatic literary figure, a self-described "great practitioner of deceit."
Booktryst reviews A Gentleman of Pleasure: One Life of John Glassco, Poet, Memoirist, Translator, and Pornographer:
He was, by his own admission, “an accomplished liar” … Read More >