Writing stories with a personal narrative is nothing new for Toronto author Tim Falconer. Take, for example, "Face the Music", his 2012 Maisonneuve piece about ...

Former president and photographer Rudolf Schuster with Jitka Klett at her fashion show in Kosice. Photos by Nadja Sayej. It was half past seven when ...

There’s a comedian named Jeremy Woodcock who got slightly famous for considerably less than fifteen minutes this summer with a video about finding Bessarion station, ...

The mayor's comical idiocy has given cover to his abusive behaviour.On January 1, Rob Ford registered to run for re-election in a race which, in ...

Our fifth annual round-up of the most-read pieces, from cover stories to blogs, posted on the Maisy site. Here are 2013's top reads. 1. "In ...

Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, author of Mo' Meta Blues. For the fifth year in a row, Maisonneuve asked contributors to send us a few words on ...

After the Second World War, modernist architecture had to adapt a new global perspective—one that traded Western-centric notions of urban planning for a system that ...

Illustration by Anna Minzhulina. This winter, Maisonneuve will publish its fiftieth issue. To celebrate, we asked past editors to choose five favourite pieces from their ...

In 1967, the Partisan Review published a symposium by sixteen public intellectuals called "What is Happening in America?" The editors began by stating, “There is ...

Illustration by Anna Minzhulina. This winter, Maisonneuve will publish its fiftieth issue. To celebrate, we asked past editors to choose five favourite pieces from their ...

For anyone awake to contemporary Canadian fiction, assumptions loomed over the recent production of Sheila Heti's All Our Happy Days Are Stupid at Toronto's Videofag. ...

Amtrak's Adirondack east coast observation car is scheduled to run from New York to Montreal on certain fall days: Thursdays, Saturdays, Mondays going north. Fridays, ...

Watching a parent spiral through the cycles of alcoholism feels relentless. Not the slow decline of so many other tragedies, it's an ever-changing nightmare ride ...

Every year, the Quebec Writing Competition seeks the best unpublished English-language short stories from around the province, and now, the ten shortlisted stories are available ...

Lou Reed's high school yearbook photo. Lester Bangs once interviewed Lou Reed in the dining room of a Holiday Inn. At the time, the musician ...

In September, at the height of the furor over the Quebec government's proposed "Values Charter," Humera Jabir wrote a blog post for Maisonneuve taking on ...

Ada Lovelace In 1994, when our family got a desktop computer and a dial up internet connection, my mom was mostly a stay-at-home mom. Though ...

On the inside cover of my edition of Alice Munro’s The Love of a Good Woman, there is the following line of text: “Alice Munro ...

This week, we travelled to the oddly Twin-Peaks-esque studio of Kaufman & Spry, a Montreal-based online radio show about culture, politics and sports. Joined by ...

A wolfish Stephen Harper in Calgary. Photo by Jean Gagnon. Ron Graham has an essay about Stephen Harper in the 10th anniversary issue of The ...