Emily Pauline Johnson, the mother of Canadian poetry
Whenever I find myself homesick I read poetry, and in particular, there is one poet that I always find myself returning to. Emily Pauline Johnson, also known as Tekahionwake, a Mohawk Princess who wrote several books in high Victorian style at the start of the 1900s…
With the Unión Nacional Sinarquista in Mexico City
Last year while living in Mexico City I had the opportunity to visit the Unión Nacional Sinarquista (UNS) headquarters in Mexico City and meet with several of their leaders to discuss ideology and the history of their movement.
The Rise and Fall of Pierre Drieu la Rochelle
Pierre Drieu la Rochelle’s suicide marked the end of an epoch in French publishing, and world politics more generally. While many in his class were able to deftly manouver the rapidly changing political and economic landscape of their time, Drieu la Rochelle’s decision to collaborate with the occupying regime lead to his untimely death.
The trial of F.T. Marinetti
F.T. Marinetti’s first novel, Mafarka the futurist, was initially published in Paris to broad critical acclaim. When it was later translated into Italian and published in Milan however, Marinetti was quickly brought before court and charged with obscenity and distributing pornography.
Aldus Manutius and the Aldine Press
Through his tireless effort, Aldus would revolutionize the publishing industry and lay the necessary groundwork for the Renaissance, modern democracy, and the bourgeoisie revolutions of the 18th and 19th centuries.
Alexis de Tocqueville’s notes on Islam
The following is a series of notes that Alexis de Tocqueville wrote about the Islamic religion. They were written in 1839 during the ongoing French colonization of Algeria, and describe Tocqueville’s attempts to understand Islam from a western-european perspective.
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