Humanitarians can’t afford to be neutral
Dr. James Orbinski’s memoir questions crimes of inaction
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Cinema on the edge
Marie Brassard’s provocative selections explore the fringe of German film
Get lost in a good bookstore
A guide to finding books with personality in Montreal
Infallible tests for year-end bests
Top album lists, music-mag behemoths, and folky goodness
Slice-of-life, served cold
Dave Lapp’s detached vignettes lack direction
The perks of being a pariah
Surviving high school is no mean feat in Mariko Tamaki’s Skim
Two wheels good, four wheels bad?
Leah Pires deconstructs the fraught relationship between cyclists and motorists
Kanye West: the centre of his own universe
Alexander Ostroff traces the meteoric rise of a hip hop superstar
AIDS policy lecture night features head of McGill AIDS Centre
Last Wednesday, Dr. Mark Wainberg outlined what he believes to be the key policy decisions the Canadian government should make to mitigate the impacts of… Read More »AIDS policy lecture night features head of McGill AIDS Centre
An exercise in melancholy
Alienation and loneliness ring hollow in Seven Openings of the Head
Highway to nowhere
David Adams Richards’s “great Canadian novel” is anything but
Culture Briefs
Alternative approaches Often more renowned for stifling creativity than supporting it, McGill has rarely been seen as the vanguard of artistic endeavour. But Professor Alanna… Read More »Culture Briefs
Democratic, expressive, expensive
Public art provides fodder for a thousand Facebook albums
Giving the students what they want
Redpath shawarma server moves his beacon of light to St. Laurent