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What you may have missed this week at MQUP
One of Montreal’s most prolific architects: Andrew Thomas Taylor
Best of the Best of university presses
For dessert / the waiter explains in his almost perfect / English that the purple flowers are violins
Mike Babcock, author of Leave No Doubt, will be Team … Read More >
Join us on Wednesday at Mahone Bay’s Biscuit Eater Cafe and Bookstore or on Friday at the Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia for the book launch of Wavelengths of Your Song by Eleonore Schönmaier.
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The following is excerpted from the Arc Poetry review of Wavelengths … Read More >
Now in its 15th year, the American Association of University Presses’ Best of the Best program marks university presses’ contribution to public and secondary school libraries. MQUP’s Warriors of the Plains: The Arts of Plains Indian Warfare by Max Carocci has been chosen by librarians as part of this year’s Read More >
What you may have missed this week at MQUP
Remembering a CanLit pioneer: Lorne Pierce
Lorne Pierce’s undergraduate hi-jinks
A conversation with Peter Swirski
Bilingual Being website launch
Out of the Basement author Miranda Campbell‘s blog
Pictures from the book launch of Garden Plots
Park or … Read More >
The following is excerpted from the Kingston Whig-Standard review of Both Hands: A Life of Lorne Pierce of Ryerson Press by Sandra Campbell.
Both Hands, a new biography of [Lorne] Pierce written by Kingston author Sandra Campbell and published by McGill-Queen’s Press, finally gives Pierce his due.
Until she retired this month, Sandra was a highly … Read More >
The following is excerpted from Highbrow, lowbrow: Conversation with Peter Swirski:
But what if we DID question all of these divisions that we build, the ones that separate, say, “KikoMachine” from “Noli Me Tangere”? What if we are able to conceive a middle ground between high and low culture? What if we are able to consider … Read More >
What you may have missed this week at MQUP
On leisure and consumption
Sexual Politics in North American Fiction and Film
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Judge rules: Apple conspired to fix e-book prices
The history of typography
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The following is excerpted from Reproductive Acts by Heather Latimer.
This chapter departs from the previous three by turning its focus to a film, Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men (2006), an adaptation of P.D. James’s novel, The Children of Men (1992). The film tells the story of a futuristic infertile world plagued by pandemics, … Read More >
The following is excerpted from Vancouver Weekly’s Garden Plots Preview:
Nature, wilderness, “wilderness,” the great outdoors – from painting to literature to photography, the Canadian landscape and human’s (or man’s, more accurately) relationship to it has been an ingrained theme in “Canadian” identity since the country’s birth. But there is a far more … Read More >
What you may have missed this week at MQUP
On the Canada-US border
What was it like to be young and sick in the past?
Pictures from Small Matters: Canadian Children in Sickness and Health, 1900-1940
What else?
Penguin and Random House finalize merger
Everything you need to know about the great Read More >