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Where to Buy Maisonneuve

by Maisonneuve Staff Having trouble finding the magazine? Here’s a list of stores that carry us, organized by province.

Maisonneuve is carried at fine bookstores and magazine shops all across Canada. Below, you’ll find a list of stores, organized by province, where you can find the magazine.

Maisonneuve is also carried at most Chapters-Indigo locations in Canada. Use the store locator to find one near you.

You can also order the current issue of Maisonneuve online. And remember …

Interview With David Balzer

by Chandler Levack The author of Contrivances discusses Fleetwood Mac, sublimation and writing from a woman’s perspective.

This week marks the launch of Contrivances, a debut collection of short stories from writer and art critic David Balzer. The e-book, published by Brian Joseph Davis and Emily Schultz’s ECW imprint Joyland Books, relays the tragic comedy of women wrestling with muses and musings, from a blonde nudist retiring in the woods in “The Poncho” to the mannered …

Interview With Joshua Clover

by Ian Beattie The poet, academic and activist discusses maps, protest movements and why art isn’t politically effective.

Joshua Clover is a respected American poet and writer based in California, where he teaches at UC Davis. His first collection, Madonna Anno Domini, won the Walt Whitman award for American poetry; Judith Butler called his most recent collection, The Totality for Kids, “a stunning collection” with “an enormous clarity of language in the service of a poetics that brilliantly …

Anatomy of an Occupation

by Paul Gettlich What really happened at Occupy Toronto?

Photograph by Ana Lee Smith.

While surfing the web in late September 2011, a Humber College student named Bryan Batty comes across footage of the New York Police Department pepper-spraying protesters at Occupy Wall Street. Batty once considered himself a social democrat, but he was caught up in a mass arrest during Toronto’s anti-G20 protests in 2010, and he …

Maisy’s Selena Ross Wins CAJ Award

by Maisonneuve Staff The Canadian Association of Journalists picks “Getting Plowed” as the year’s best investigative magazine story.

On April 28, Selena Ross’ “Getting Plowed,” from Maisonneuve’s Winter 2011 issue, won a Canadian Association of Journalists award for investigative reporting in the Magazine category. “Getting Plowed” exposed collusion, bid-rigging and violence in Montreal’s snow-removal industry, and it was also recently nominated for a National Magazine Award for Investigative Reporting. Congrats to Selena!

Maisonneuve Nominated for 9 National Magazine Awards, Including Mag of the Year

by Maisonneuve Staff We’re once again one of the top ten most-nominated magazines.

We’re thrilled to announce that Maisonneuve received nine National Magazine Award nominations today, including for the coveted Magazine of the Year prize. That also puts Maisonneuve among the top ten most-nominated magazines (tied for tenth this year with Cottage Life) for the fourth year in a row. Congratulations to all our contributors and editors, as well as to all …

Tenth Anniversary: Spring

ISSUE 43 Tenth Anniversary: Spring 2012

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also in this issue:

  • Face the Music

    by Tim Falconer How can someone who passionately loves music also be a terrible singer? Tim Falconer takes up voice lessons—and discovers the surprising science of tone deafness.

  • The Big Job

    by Deni Y. Béchard As a teenager, Deni Y. Béchard went to Vancouver to live with his father, an ex-con with a penchant for telling tall tales. He met a man desperate to forget the past.

  • The Homesickness of Astronauts

    by Johanna Skibsrud "She felt a great sadness. She would remember next to nothing of this, even soon."
  • [see full issue contents]