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The Treaties

Ottawa negotiated in bad faith

Making a Scene

Experimental film is ready for its close-up

A More Sentimental Man

Michael Ondaatje’s late style

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…