(So far: songs 25-16, 15-12) While there are many great dance songs about breakups, they’re usually blissful or angry, not contemplative. Part of what ...

(From yesterday: songs 25-16) Last week, Vulture ran a piece comparing and contrasting Katy Perry and Ke$ha, positioning the former as a callback to ...

I’d be remiss if I let 2010 go by without recognizing the year’s accomplishments in music because, wow, what a year. I admit ...

Today, December 6, is a big day for Quebec's student movement. Across the province, approximately 60,000 university students are on strike, in protest ...

Not so very long ago, I was the arts editor of a university's student paper. A great thing about writing for young folk is ...

Rouge Cabaret: The Terrifying and Beautiful World of Otto Dix has one more month to go at Montreal's Museum of Fine Arts. This exhibition ...

Strangeness of the week. I find the song, and now this video, absolutely compelling. Unfortunately it's a trailer for a game...and as games ...

So much of our time is spent online that it's easy to forget which of the worlds we inhabit was only developed in the ...

Writing fiction based on yourself can be dangerous—it's not difficult to turn thoughtful introspection into full-blown navel-gazing. In Pitouie, Derek Winkler's first ...

  Thanks to attention from the Atlantic's Andrew Sullivan, the Browser, Metafilter and Give Me Something to Read, Kevin Patterson's wonderful essay "Diseases of ...

Here is Sarah Palin on her current reading habits: "There's nothing different today than there was in the last 43 years of my life ...

  Have you ever wondered what it's like to work in a tape factory? Of course you have. That's why C. Liam Brown decided ...

In all the recent media coverage of Gaspereau Press we haven't heard much from the people behind Gaspereau themselves. The small Nova Scotia press ...

Inspired by the Distriboto machines she'd seen in Montreal, Toronto poet Carey Toane dreamed up the idea of a machine that would dispense poems ...

Now in its thirteenth year, the Rencontres Internationales du Documentaire de Montréal, or RIDM (which you pronounce "riddim," like the Patois for "rhythm," which ...

Dear Maclean's, Thank you so much for publishing "'Too Asian'?" I was shocked—no, appalled—to read that Canadian universities are being overrun by ...

Suzanne Buffam is the author of two collections of poetry, Past Imperfect (Anansi, 2005) and The Irrationalist (Anansi / Canarium, 2010). She was born and raised ...

Photo courtesy of Tom Sandler I have not watched an awards ceremony on TV since whenever the first time Steve Martin hosted the Oscars (ah ...

Yesterday morning, the Ministère des Transports du Québec (MTQ) held a press conference during which Transport Minister Sam Hamad presented a revised, $3 ...

In its current issue, Matrix magazine has a thoughtful response to our Summer "Music We Hate" cover story by columnist Ian Orti. We hoped to ...