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The F-Word

How politics and language mix

In the Human Frame

Memories of the baffled king

Balance the Books

The case for Canadian publishing

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…