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Crisis, what Crisis?

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Mid-Life, Drawn and Quarterly, by Joe Ollmann

by Heather Leighton
09.05.2011

On the fun scale, everyone in Montreal seems to have had a better time than sleep-deprived John, whose new parent role has created both a cranky husband and an absentminded employee, pushing him closer to the edge of an emotional and professional abyss.

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BOOKS

Out of Nowhere

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Bats or Swallows, Invisible Publishing, by Teri Vlassopoulos

by Mark Paterson
08.05.2011

“I learned early on that things don’t come out of nowhere,” says the narrator in “Baby Teeth,” one of eleven stories in Teri Vlassopoulos’s Bats or Swallows. “There is always a buildup.”

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BOOKS

The World According to Linda

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Writing in the Time of Nationalism: From Two Solitudes to Blue Metropolis, Signature Editions, By Linda Leith

by Gillian Lane-Mercier
24.04.2011

Yet when it comes to the larger cultural and political narrative, this exclusively subjective perspective ends up reinforcing the very motif of the Two Solitudes that Blue Metropolis sought to undermine.

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PODCAST

In Conversation: Gregory Reid & Writing in the Time of Nationalism

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Gregory Reid talks about Writing in the Time of Nationalism, by Linda Leith

by Marc Seltzer
24.04.2011

Université de Sherbrooke English professor Gregory Reid and Marc Seltzer of The Rover talk about Writing in the Time of Nationalism, by Linda Leith.

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Out of India

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On the Outside Looking Indian, by Rupinder Gill, McClelland & Stewart

by Leila Marshy
23.04.2011

At the age of 30, Rupinder Gill realized she never rode through Paris in a sports car with the warm wind in her hair. Ok, not exactly, but Disneyworld and summer camp were tied for a close second. On the Outside Looking Indian is Gill’s year of living dangerously, the year she decided to do [...]

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BOOKS

Memoir of a Difficult Fatherhood

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Bad Animals: A Father's Accidental Education in Autism, by Joel Yanofsky, Viking Canada

by B. A. Markus
28.03.2011

Understanding the author’s motivation is essential to a satisfactory memoir-reading experience. This is because once we know why the writer felt inspired to memorialize, we are better equipped to trace the narrator’s transformational trajectory as it is expressed between the front and back covers.

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BOOKS

Fear and Loathing in October

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Trudeau’s Darkest Hour, edited by Guy Bouthillier & Édouard Cloutier, Baraka Books

by Neil MacRae
14.03.2011

On October 5, 1970, British trade commissioner James Cross was abducted in Montreal by members of the FLQ as, five days later, was the Quebec Minister of Trade, Pierre Laporte. Ostensibly in response to these “political crimes,” the federal government of Pierre Trudeau invoked the War Measures Act during the night of October 16. That [...]

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