Photo by MTLSkyline.It might seem absurd to compare Rob Ford to Bill de Blasio, the progressive who recently won a landslide victory to become mayor …

In 1998, a documentary called Frat House was shown at Sundance to great critical acclaim. The film followed a group of fraternity brothers as they …

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Every year, the Quebec Writing Competition seeks the best unpublished English-language short stories from around the province, and now, the ten shortlisted stories are available …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