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What you may have missed this week at MQUP
On Quebec's Voting System
Bishop Receives his Due in New Scholarly Work
Remembering 9/11
Russian Literature, Flowers Bar & Restaurant, and Galya Diment
Canada Blames U.S. for Delay in Transferring Omar Khadr
Bill Leiss, author of Read More >
The following is excerpted from The London Free Press review of John Walsh's My Heart's Best Wishes for You.
It’s unlikely many Londoners would know much about John Walsh.
In fact, it’s arguable that few Catholics have ever heard or know much about the 19th-century Bishop of London who went on … Read More >
The following is excerpted from The Globe and Mail article Canada blames U.S. for delay in transferring Omar Khadr by Colin Perkel.
The Canadian government is defending itself against allegations it is deliberately dragging its feet in allowing Omar Khadr to return from Guantanamo Bay by arguing much of the delay is the fault of … Read More >
The following is excerpted from Seeing Ghosts: 9/11 and the Visual Imagination by Karen Engle:
The
winning memorial design for the World Trade Center site remembers the
significance of absence and failure to the events of September 11. Named Reflecting
Absence, the
plan takes advantage of the voids left by the towers’ collapses, transforming
them into deep reflecting pools. Visitors will descend … Read More >
The following is excerpted from The Gazette article Canada’s voting system has the potential to distort electoral outcomes, expert says
In Quebec, the distortions caused by the current winner-take-all voting system have sometime resulted in a government taking power with fewer votes than its nearest rival, said Matthew Hayday, an associate professor of history at the … Read More >
What you may have missed this week at MQUP
Blindfold by John Asfour has made it on the ReLit Awards' longlist for poetry
APSA Book Sale
A Jew D. H. Lawrence Loved and Ridiculed
What else?
The economics of an indie bookstore
Watchwords: Stripping headlines to the bare bones
In defense … Read More >
The following is excerpted from The Stranger's review of A Russian Jew of Bloomsbury by Galya Diment.
This is one of the pleasures of reading Diment's new book—her rigorous research into the life of Samuel Koteliansky, a Russian Jew who, by an accident … Read More >
The APSA conference might be cancelled but not our book sale!
20% off paperbacks and 30% off hardcovers
You may fill in this order form and mail it in, or you may order online using discount codes APSA2012 for paperbacks and APSA3012 for hardcovers. Only books listed on the Read More >
Blindfold by John Mikhail Asfour has made it on the ReLit Awards' longlist for poetry.
Blinded by a grenade in Lebanon as a teenager, poet John Asfour came to Canada armed with James Joyce's words, "For the eyes, they bring us nothing. I have … Read More >