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Among Europe’s major contemporary poets, Estonia’s Jaan Kaplinski offers a rare vision of human advancement and fulfillment: the less we intervene the more we flourish.
But how then can we remain involved in what evolves of its own accord? How can we move away from a life forged by human design towards a quietly attentive … Read More >
To Build a Shadowy Isle of Bliss, edited by Michelle Weinroth and Paul Leduc Browne, casts new light on the political radicalism and social thought of nineteenth-century artist, author, and revolutionary, William Morris.
Balancing variety and unity, this collection reappraises Morris’s concept of social change and asks how we might think beyond the … Read More >
Christopher Risso-Gill’s Routines and Orgies is the biography of value investor Peter Cundill – marathon runner, world-traveler, philosopher, cultural enthusiast, and playboy.
Supported by four decades of Cundill’s meticulously kept daily journals, which are intimate, frank, self-admonishing, and confessional, the biography all aspects of what Cundill referred to as his “wonderful life” – commercial, artistic, romantic, … Read More >
Join us next Wednesday for a book launch at Cinémathèque Québécoise for
INSIDE THE HISTORICAL FILM
By Bruno Ramirez
5:30 PM – cocktail and book signing
7:30 PM – lecture and screening
From cinema’s beginnings filmmakers have turned to the past for their stories, so much so that in many ways our historical culture is shaped more … Read More >
Jan Beveridge’s new release, Children into Swans: Fairy Tales and the Pagan Imagination, opens the door on some of the most extraordinary worlds ever portrayed in literature – worlds that are both starkly beautiful and full of horrors. In the spirit of this week’s festivities, the following excerpt looks at the Celtic roots of Hallowe’en, formerly … Read More >
Susan Schwartz wrote a feature in the Montreal Gazette on Second World War resistance figures Magda and André Trocmé, and their daughter Nelly Trocmé Hewett’s Montreal speaking events this month.
As mentioned in the Gazette article, Trocmé Hewett’s “presentation will include a short version of the award-winning 1989 documentary Weapons of the Spirit, made by … Read More >
Judith Cowan, author of The Permanent Nature of Everything, participated in the most unique interview we’ve ever seen! Part of a special event to kick off the literary season with Culture Mauricie, Cowan rode in a bike rickshaw through Trois-Rivières to discuss her memoir with Anne-Marie Lemay of Radio-Canada’s Chez nous le matin.
The Honourable Donald S. Macdonald’s new memoir, Thumper, offers a behind-the-scenes account of his political career that spanned four decades and included posts as House leader, minister of national defence, minister of energy, and minister of finance.
Drawing on extensive archival resources and contemporaneous personal diaries, Macdonald insightfully details his friendship with Trudeau, fascinating encounters with world leaders, … Read More >
We are delighted to have Erika Behrisch Elce, editor of As affecting the fate of my absent husband: Selected Letters of Lady Franklin Concerning the Search for the Lost Franklin Expedition, 1848-1860, as our guest blogger today!
Just last week, Prime Minister Stephen Harper was elated to announce the discovery of one of Sir John Franklin’s ships, … Read More >
John Dunning’s memoir, You’re Not Dead until You’re Forgotten, is getting lots of buzz leading up to the Toronto book launch at Ben McNally Books this Thursday! Quill & Quire gave the memoir a starred review:
The best filmmaker memoirs are the ones that feel like movies themselves, whether it’s the epic, melodramatic sweep … Read More >