As an anxious child, the Montreal writer Mark Abley ricocheted between feeling Harry Abley was "a nightmare of a father: depressive, self-absorbed, unpredictable, emotionally unstable," and "a dream ...

Mark Abley writes about a difficult parent, a renowned musician who was unable to teach him how to be a man When poet and author Mark Abley was around nine years old in the mid-1960s, his parents had ...

Our meeting in a Verdun café marked the first time Mark Abley had talked about his new book since it went public, and at times he was hesitant, as if still working out how to address a subject that ...

The Next Chapter"Conversations With a Dead Man: The Legacy of Duncan Campbell Scott" author Mark Abley (Extended interview) Who really was Duncan Campbell Scott? How could he be a celebrated poet and, ...

This week, Montreal columnist and author Mark Abley is my guest as we talk about his latest book, Conversations with a Dead Man: The legacy of Duncan Campbell Scott. 50-yr old Scott (L) and British ...

Can Duncan Campbell Scott’s literary reputation survive the stigma of supervising Canada’s residential school system? You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an ...

Journeys taken in our youth inform the rest of our lives—they are markers of change in us as well as in the world. In the spring of 1978, a 22-year-old Canadian poet named Mark Abley set out to travel ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Mark Abley, an energetic Canadian journalist, went all over the world in search of dying or threatened languages and those who still speak them. There were certainly plenty to choose from. Of the ...