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GUEST BLOG – How Darwin Made Monkeys of Us All, by Mark Cwik

GUEST BLOG – How Darwin Made Monkeys of Us All, by Mark Cwik

Upon first reading Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, the great 19th-century biologist Thomas Henry Huxley—later to be known as “Darwin’s Bulldog”—is reported to have told friends, “How extremely stupid not to have thought of that!” Huxley’s quote captures the essence of why I love to read the Origin. […]

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GUEST BLOG – Lisa Pasold on why September is best for visiting Paris’s glittering Belle Epoque

GUEST BLOG – Lisa Pasold on why September is best for visiting Paris’s glittering Belle Epoque

Paris is beautiful at any time of year, but autumn is my favourite season for conjuring the glittering world of the Belle Epoque. In September, the early fall light turns the city’s streets into scenes worthy of Degas and Monet. The Belle Epoque encompasses wonderfully diverse creative energies: composer Debussy, […]

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GUEST BLOG – Craig Walley invites you to explore ga·lore  /gəˈlôr/ Adjective – in abundance

GUEST BLOG – Craig Walley invites you to explore ga·lore /gəˈlôr/ Adjective – in abundance

While I cannot invite you to Newfoundland, I can invite you to do the next best thing — journey imaginatively with me and fellow travellers for a week (July 14-19, 2013) to Michael Crummey’s fictitious rugged outport of Paradise Deep, the setting for his epic novel Galore. In 2011, my […]

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