Etiket: Essay
The essay “Murdering Rage. Ending racism”, by bell hooks, is still cruelly relevant today
Throughout her versatile career as a committed essayist, bell hooks has worked hard to reflect on racism and patriarchy in America, particularly on psychological trauma among African-Americans. With this third…
The Quebec essay in five titles
Satin black Stanley Péan The new book of the prolific Stanley Paean is a salutary and fascinating spotlight on the destiny and career of around fifteen female jazz musicians who…
The essay “Montreal, Nest of Spies” by Barry Sheehy examines the links between the metropolis and the Confederate past of the United States.
Historian Barry Sheehy looks at the historical links between Montreal and the Confederate past of the United States. Did you know ? For 60 years, a commemorative plaque celebrating the…
Kévin Bideaux publishes the essay “Rose. A color struggling with gender”
Pink is for girls,” we often hear. Toys, clothes, accessories, cartoons… In fact, pink makes everything it colors feminine. Although this duo may seem immemorial, even natural, to us, the…
“People are in search of meaning”: Nicole Bordeleau looks at spirituality in her essay “Recovering the essential”
Nothing and no one can make us spiritual because we already are, writes Nicole Bordeleau in her new book, Find the essentials. This sentence summarizes the questioning about spirituality which…
Essay | These books that change lives
A journalist presents you with a recently published essay Updated July 23 Do you know why China once decided to allow science fiction and fantasy conventions to be held within…
Essay | save our saviors
Each week, one of our journalists brings you a recently published essay. Updated yesterday at 1:00 p.m. German forester Peter Wohlleben rose to worldwide fame in 2015 with the publication…
Essay | Putin’s strategy of chaos
In the wake of Yevgeny Prigojine’s failed mutiny in Russia, reading the latest book by essayist and MEP Raphaël Glucksmann is an instructive and captivating exercise. Updated July 2 “The…
“Joy, tears and dreams”, for the father of Romain Ntamack, author of the decisive essay
Led until the 79th minute in a hotly contested final, the Toulousains clung to the end to win against the Rochelais on Saturday. It was a try by Romain Ntamack…
Essay | The blind spot of COVID-19
Each week, one of our journalists brings you a recently published essay. Updated June 18 Difficult bet to publish a book on the COVID-19 pandemic in 2023. Who wants or…
Essay | War in the veins, a taste of blood in the mouth
Each week, one of our journalists brings you a recently published essay. Updated June 11 “The horror seeped into our blood vessels, our veins, our nerves, our bones, our muscles.…
Essay | Advocacy for Afghan women
Dialogue between a young Afghan prisoner in Kabul and a young free French woman in Paris. So that we do not forget the fate of women in Afghanistan. Updated June…
Essay | The excesses of the ultra-rich
One of our journalists brings you a recently published essay. Updated May 14 One of the attractions of the series Successionwhose final season is airing these days on HBO, is…
Essay | Live more together
One of our journalists presents a recently published essay Updated May 7 “Since the dawn of time… we have lived together,” says freelance journalist Gabrielle Anctil. Or rather, we lived…
Essay | When brown flirts with green
Each week, one of our journalists brings you a recently published essay. Posted at 1:00 p.m. In The ecofascist temptationPierre Madelin observes a disturbing political movement, which combines the environment…
[Critique] “Irrefutable essay on successology”, Lydie Salvayre
It is a book, we prefer to warn you, reader, which contains traces of second degree and corrosive humor. The author of The Ghost Company and of Not Cry (Seuil,…
Essay | (Beijing) desires are disorder
Each week, one of our journalists brings you a recently published essay. Posted at 1:00 p.m. What is the meaning of the Chinese regime’s interference in the political process of…
Essay | There will (still) be blood
Each week, one of our journalists brings you a recently published essay. Posted yesterday at 1:00 p.m. A macabre coincidence wanted my reading of the essay country of blood of…
Essay | Hope instead of despair
Each week, one of our journalists brings you a recently published essay. Posted yesterday at 12:00 p.m. What can philosophy do to get through these difficult times? Corine Pelluchon, a…
Essay | Advocate for the most vulnerable patients
The CHSLD Saint-Charles-Borromée scandal, the death of Joyce Echaquan, the Rivière-des-Prairies hospital affair, medical assistance in dying: lawyer Jean-Pierre Ménard was (almost) all major legal disputes on health in Quebec.…