The Greatest City Grid: New York or Chicago?
Straight as an arrow: triptych along Lake Shore Drive, Chicago Last year, Manhattan celebrated the 200th anniversary of its vaunted grid street system, the rectilinear ...
Blog Archive
Why is the CBC Doing Such a Terrible Job of Covering the Quebec Student Strike?
The massive student demonstration on March 22 in Montreal. Photo by Yanick Crépeau. A week ago, my brother emailed me from his home in Prince ...
Margaret Wente Hates Herself
Image via the Globe and Mail. I wasn’t going to say anything. I was just going to keep my mouth shut. I spent the entirety ...
On Quebec's Student Strike
iPhone photo by Jesse Rosenfeld. Last night, I met my friend Jesse and we walked to downtown Montreal, to attend a demonstration against higher tuition ...
Another Hole in Montreal's Heart
The lower Main in 1997. Photo by Kate McDonnell One of the defining features of Montreal’s cityscape is the abundance of vacant lots. Weedy, gravelly ...
A Peek at Maisonneuve's Cover-Design Process
How do our covers wind up looking the way they do? Here's a quick look at a few ideas that didn't make the cut. For ...
The Sexist Backlash Against HBO's Girls
The internet is kicking and screaming in a colossal machismo tantrum and it's all Lena Dunham's fault. Her new HBO series Girls—the second episode aired ...
Why HBO's Girls is an Unfunny Vacuum of Pandering, Privileged Dross
On Sunday night, Lena Dunham's Girls made its debut on HBO. This really means it made its debut Monday, when everyone in the show's target ...
Pens and Lenses: Alturas de Macchu Picchu at the CCA
Martín Chambi, Partial view of the King's Group showing the courtyard, Macchu Picchu, Peru, 1927. CCA Collection © Archivo Fotografico Martín Chambi Alturas de Macchu ...
The Island President and a Nation Under the Sea
Sweep your eyes across any world map or globe and, unless you squint closely on the ocean expanse just west of India, they can be ...
How I Unexpectedly Became a Music Subscriber
“Given their obsession with control over making choices about playing music, why would music collectors choose to become subscribers to a music service that extinguishes ...
The Political Legacy of Argentina's Graffiti
Before Greece erupted into riots against austerity measures, before the sit-ins that convulsed public squares across Spain, long before 2011′s tumultuous protests against world financial ...
Bonobo Diaries: Are You a Bonobo or a Chimpanzee?
In Uganda, to avoid highway travel, I took a ferry across Lake Victoria. I spent two days on the Ssese Islands to compile notes from ...
n+1’s “So Many Feelings” and the Way We Talk About Feminism on the Internet
A FEW WEEKS AGO, the n+1 Review of Books published an essay by Molly Fischer titled "So Many Feelings," about the genesis of, and problems ...
The NDP Today: Malcolm Allen
In Maisonneuve's current Winter issue, Nick Taylor-Vaisey has a feature called "After Jack," a thoughtful assessment of the NDP's rocky past and uncertain future. Over the next ...
What Do We Want From Lana Del Rey?
Last Saturday, three weeks after her much-booed and -ballyhooed Saturday Night Live performance, singer Lana Del Rey was back on the show to apologize to ...
The NDP Today: Nettie Wiebe
In Maisonneuve's current Winter issue, Nick Taylor-Vaisey has a feature called "After Jack," a thoughtful assessment of the NDP's rocky past and uncertain future. Over the next ...
The Tiger and the Donkey: A Story From Palestine
In Bethlehem was Jesus born, and Zafir lost his home. I met Zafir in an alleyway behind a taxi garage while I was checking out ...
Bonobo Diaries: The Ravages of Development
Originally, I planned to fly from Paris to Kinshasa on January 6. There, I would meet Sally Jewell Coxe and Michael Hurley, a husband-and-wife team ...
The NDP Today: Al Ens
Chuck Strahl, above, is a former Tory MP first elected to office in 1993. Although his son now holds his seat, NDP organizer Al Ens ...
