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To mark the holiday season, MQUP presents to you a poem by Mona Gould:
Small Christmas Tree (For F. G.)
Stand very straight, small Christmas tree! Put on your tallest dignity,Wear your tinsel bright and bravely, Carry your candles like holy things.In the heart of a … Read More >
Visual arts: Canadian history through 17th-century eyes from The Montreal Gazette
What is something called the Codex Canadensis doing in a museum in Tulsa, Okla.?
It doesn’t really matter, because this 17th-century illustrated natural history of eastern North America – centred on present-day Quebec – is now … Read More >
A Knight in Politics: A Biography of Sir Frederick Borden by Carman Miller has been awarded the 2010 C. P. Stacey Award for the Best Book in Canadian Military History.
The jury states, "In chronicling the 69-year life of a remarkable Canadian, Miller has done what only the best biographers … Read More >
What you may have missed this week at the MQUP
Stan Persky reads the mood of our millennium
Newfoundland Modern
Selected New Books on Higher Education
Kerry Clare recommends Outside the Box
What else?
Take part in a word experiment as part of an international study
Watchwords: Blitzed on … Read More >
The following is excerpted from Kerry Clare’s list of Favourite New Books of 2011
Outside the Box by Maria Meindl
This is the book I can’t stop talking about, and I’m pleased that I’ve managed to win it at least a few readers. As noted in a … Read More >
The following is excerpted from the Telegraph-Journal article, 21st Century Man:
In a time like this, when reading is at an all-time low and criticism seems to be a dying art, Stan Persky's Reading the 21st Century was a comforting companion.
From Sept. 11 to the … Read More >
Excerpted from the Scope's article Newfoundland Modern
When you think of Newfoundland architecture, what comes to mind? Chances are you are thinking of colored rowhouses and saltboxes. Well, this new book by Robert Mellin questions the popular notions of architecture in Newfoundland, and demonstrates that … Read More >
Join Sherry Olson and Patricia Thornton at their book launch at Concordia University on December 15th.
Many North American cities trace their population booms to the nineteenth century when immigrants and migrants flooded emerging industrializing urban centres in search of better lives. Peopling the North American … Read More >
What you may have missed this week at the MQUP
David Wilson on Thomas D'Arcy McGee
The Globe & Mail features The Book of the Wind in their 2011 gift guide
Le concept de liberté au Canada à l'époque des Révolutions atlantiques wins the Prix Lionel-Groulx Fondation-Yves-Saint-Germain
McGill-Queen's University Press is pleased to announce the release of Life After Forty, Après quarante ans edited by Jack Jedwab and Rodrigue Landry.
Life After Forty, Après quarante ans includes English and French essays from several of the country's leading experts, who assess the effectiveness of Canada's Official … Read More >