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What you may have missed this week at the MQUP
Reading the 21st Century, Part 4: Stan Persky on The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein.
Paul Lin was a navigator between two cultures
Pictures from In the Eye of the China Storm
Digitizing Read More >
Excerpted from The Tyee's review of Roderick and Sharon Stewart's Phoenix: The Life of Norman Bethune
Thanks to his months in 1930s wartime China, Norman Bethune is probably the most famous Canadian in the world. He was also a jerk: a drunk, a womanizer, a bigot, an … Read More >
Over the past couple of weeks MQUP has been presenting Stan Persky's recommendations from Reading the 21st Century.
The first decade of the twenty-first century was noteworthy for war, terror, religious revival, economic collapse, and a technological revolution that prompted countless … Read More >
Maria Meindl, author of Outside the Box: The Life and Legacy of Writer Mona Gould, the Grandmother I Thought I Knew, is Canadian Bookshelf's latest guest blogger.
My desk is awash in receipts. Recently unfolded from the depths of my wallet, … Read More >
Excerpted from The Montreal Gazette's review of In the Eye of the China Storm.
In 1965, upon returning to his native Canada after 15 years in China, Paul Lin drew the attention of Canadian intelligence. Investigators interviewed his friends and associates, telling them that he was an “enigma.” … Read More >
What you may have missed this week at the MQUP
Reading the 21st Century, Part 3: Stan Persky on Death with Interruptions by José Saramago.
Brian Busby at the 2011 John Glassco Prize Gala
Book designer Glenn Goluska remembered with a typeface
A review of The Solitary Self
The … Read More >
This past august, McGill-Queen's University Press lost a dear friend and colleague. Glenn Goluska was a book designer, typographer, and letterpress printer who designed many of our books.
Long-time friend Rod McDonald has payed tribute to Goluska through a newly designed typefaced named after him. The typeface will be making its debut in the upcommig issue … Read More >
Brian Busby will be speaking at the Literary Translators’ Association of Canada’s John Glassco Prize Gala this Sunday, September 25th.
Brian Busby is the author of A Gentleman of Pleasure: One Life of John Glassco, Poet, Memoirist, Translator, and Pornographer.
A Gentleman of Pleasure not only spans Glassco’s … Read More >
Over the past couple of weeks MQUP has been presenting Stan Persky's recommendations from Reading the 21st Century.
The first decade of the twenty-first century was noteworthy for war, terror, religious revival, economic collapse, and a technological revolution that prompted countless critical responses … Read More >
What you may have missed this week at the MQUP
Reading the 21st Century, Part 2: Stan Persky on Against All Enemies: Inside America’s War on Terror
Satanic Purses: Money, Myth, and Misinformation in the War on Terror
The Life and Legacy of Writer Mona Gould
Thomas D'Arcy McGee's Read More >