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Country Music

Please stand and remove your cynicism

Bountiful Diversity

A leading Québécois scholar’s appreciative look at Canada’s biggest province

Rinkside Reading

What does hockey’s literature say about the sport?

Mark Abley

Mark Abley is the author of several books, among them Conversations with a Dead Man: Indigenous Rights and the Legacy of Duncan Campbell Scott.

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Mark Abley

From Manners to Manhood

A comic novel about the difference between being proper and being decent September 2010
The literary map of Montreal includes a few neighbourhoods in which every street, every block, almost every house has been filtered through a prism of writerly attention: the Plateau Mont-Royal, Mile End and Outremont, to begin with. It also contains large expanses that remain nearly entirely blank in both official languages. The lawn-filled suburbs of the West…