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Midnight Cowboy at the Cabaret on The Main:
A Queer Film Classics Interview
With Jon Towlson, Mikhel Proulx, Julie Vaillancourt
Interview by Matthew Hays and Thomas Waugh

Setting the Stage

The relaunched Queer Film Classics series has added a handful of films from the so-called Stonewall era to its miscellany of more recent queer films from the period between … Read More >

Published in 2021, What Ails France? is a provocative but constructive critique of the French model of technocratic, elite leadership. Amidst the ongoing protest over pension law and retirement age in France today, Brigitte Granville’s book remains as relevant as ever.  In What Ails France? Granville views the malaise as a peculiarly French symptom of the … Read More >

The co-editor of the Queer Film Classics series, Thomas Waugh, engages two authors of new books in the series about their sense of the state of queer cinema

by Thomas Waugh, Maria San Filippo and Russell Sheaffer

Two of the most recent titles in McGill-Queen’s University Press’s ongoing Queer Film Classics series are on the films Read More >

In an era of increasing social division and inequality, From Charity to Change by Hilary Pearson is a timely contribution to the current debate on the legitimacy of organized philanthropy. The book draws on interviews with foundation leaders from across Canada and the author’s personal experience from within Canadian foundations to make a compelling … Read More >

Ian Garner’s new book, Stalingrad Lives: Stories of Combat and Survival, tells the hidden story of how Russia’s greatest wartime epic was created at the front.  Garner brings together a selection of short stories written at and after the battle. They reveal, for the first time in English, the real Russian narrative of Stalingrad … Read More >

This October, Dr. Tammy Gaber will be speaking at the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto about her research and new book on Canadian mosques. This is a particularly meaningful venue as the Aga Khan Museum is the only one in North America dedicated to Islamic arts and architecture, and it sits across from the … Read More >

In Cecilia Morgan’s forthcoming book, Sweet Canadian Girls Abroad, the little-known lives of late-nineteenth-century Canadian actresses take center stage. In this era, many Canadian women left their homes at young ages with hopes of becoming successful in the theatre circuits of the United States, Britain, Australia, and New Zealand. While only a handful of … Read More >

Heirs of an Ambivalent Empire by Scott Berthelette explores how French-Indigenous interactions in the Hudson Bay watershed area led to the rise of the Métis Nation. The recently-published book follows French-Canadian (Canadien) fur traders across the Northwest as they navigated relationships between sovereign Indigenous nations and the French government. Over time, the Canadien’s ties with the French … Read More >

In Autobiography of a Garden, Patterson Webster recounts her twenty-five-year gardening journey on the 750-acre property called Glen Villa in Quebec. The recently-published book explores the meaning of a garden, the ways in which we can learn from the land, and how we might preserve and present its history and the history … Read More >

“Do you know my most beautiful memory? It was New Year’s Eve. To celebrate the new-year there were traditions.  One of my mother’s traditions was she would open the door at midnight. All the surrounding factories would sound their whistles, the sounds of the factories. All the whistles would go off together, all the CNR … Read More >