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The Ancient Mythology of Modern Science
MQUP Founder Robin Marlatt Farr
Omar Khadr's transfer to Canada nears approval
TLS reviews The Russian Jew of Bloomsbury
Architecture and Craft in Postwar Canada
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Samuel Koteliansky (1880-1955) fled the pogroms of Russia in 1911 and established himself as a friend of many of Britain's literati and intellectuals, who were fascinated by his homeland's more civilized side: the Ballets Russes, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov. Kot, as he was known, soon became an indispensable guide to … Read More >
In 2002 Omar Khadr, a fifteen-year-old Canadian citizen, was captured in Afghanistan for allegedly killing an American soldier. Khadr was transferred to Guantánamo where he would remain without trial until October 2010 when a military commission admitted evidence considered tainted by Canadian courts. A plea bargain and guilty plea initiated … Read More >
Robin Farr, founder of McGill-Queen's University Press, has died at the age of 85. The following is excerpted from his Quill & Quire obituary.
Robin Farr, a builder of Canadian publishing and one of its true gentlemen, died last week in Oakville, Ontario, at the age of 85. Farr excelled as both a publisher … Read More >
The following is excerpted from The Ancient Mythology of Modern Science: A Mythologist Looks (Seriously) at Popular Science Writing by Gregory Schrempp.
“It’s just matter”: this comment has stayed in my mind for over three decades now. I and a favourite uncle (a researcher at a pharmaceutical firm, and also the … Read More >
What you may have missed this week at MQUP
Marion: The Story of an Artist's Model
New author Mike Babcock eyes another chance at coaching Olympic team
Mike Babcock talks about his new book on … Read More >
Mike Babcock is the only hockey coach in the history of the game to lead teams to victory in the Stanley Cup, the World Championship, and the Olympic Games. Currently head coach for the Detroit Red Wings, he is arguably the best coach in the game today. In Leave No Doubt, against the … Read More >
The following is excerpted from Ulster's Men: Protestant Unionist Masculinities and Militarization in the North of Ireland, 1912-1923 by Jane G.V. McGaughey.
Importantly, these correlations between manliness and militarization were reserved for men only; women were cast as supporters, comforters, and loved ones, but not as combatants. Full citizenship within … Read More >
The following is excerpted from the introduction to the new edition of Marion: The Story of an Artist's Model by Winnifred Eaton.
In April 1916, Hearst’s magazine began serializing the novel Marion: The Story of an Artist’s Model by “the Author of ‘Me.’” For eight months, readers followed the tale of Marion Ascough, … Read More >
What you may have missed this week at MQUP
Canada’s connection to the first PC
These women paved the way
The sound of the word "cilantro"
The Jewish Public Library had humble beginnings
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