Winter is just dragging on and on, and every Montrealer knows from experience that February is the hardest month to
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In re-reading Jean Delumeau, I am drawn inevitably to the Bible, where some apocalyptic passages foretell the ultimate destruction of
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While researching my feature film The Blinding Sea, a friend suggested I study Historia de Gentibus Septentrionalibus (A History of
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Coming back to my reading of Jean Delumeau, and medieval/early modern myths of the Danse macabre or Dance of Death,
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In the Fall of 1977, I interviewed the Canadian literary critic Northrop Frye for a McGill history magazine I had
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I have magical-realist novels on my mind, so it is fascinating to consider how people in times past transformed real
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As I continue re-reading Jean Delumeau, I am struck by something new, and very odd. In his extraordinary volume on
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Having pursued eleven years of undergraduate and postgraduate study at McGill, Oxford and a few other places, then spent seven
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I occasionally get away to the desert (like the Sahara, in this photo I took near Zagora, Morrocco), and more
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My feature film The Blinding Sea is coming out soon. The final cut of chapters 1 to 5 is done.
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I recently posted a blog on my direct ancestor Mary Osgood, of Andover, Massachusetts (on my mother’s side). In 1692,
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One of my direct New England ancestors on my mother’s side was Mary Osgood née Clement, of Andover Massachusetts, who
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