I listen to albums, start-to-finish. If you’re interested in this list, you might do the same on a regular basis. We’re not normal. In his …

It started with the new white curtains my girlfriend and I bought for our bedroom in Hong Kong. They’re opaque enough to block any potential …

(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 made …

(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 America’s …

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 that my …

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 of discussions …

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 that …

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, which …

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 go it …

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 last …

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 novel, the main …

  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 Affluence," …

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 since …

  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 to …

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 publishes …

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. When …

Now in its thirteenth year, the Rencontres Internationales du Documentaire de Montréal, or RIDM (which you pronounce "riddim," like the Patois for "rhythm," which never …

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 overachieving, nose-to-the-grindstone Asians. …

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

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, …