The 2015 Oxford Dictionaries 'word of the year' is an emoji. Does that make it fair game for essays?

An evening of thrilling prose, poetry and talk

Frankenstein Friday: ‘I can’t get that monster out of my mind’

Louise O'Neill confronts the 'insidious sexisms of our culture'

VIDEO: The works and words of Mordecai Richler

From a Man Booker nominee: ‘I can’t say I lost what I didn’t have’

Ann-Marie MacDonald is named Concordia’s first Richler writer-in-residence

Fiction: Bridges We Build

Writers Read: 15 poets, playwrights and novelists

Explore the archival treasures in Concordia’s Special Collections

Windmills, giants and the zombie apocalypse

'When we go to theme parks, what are we trying to escape?'

Rattlesnakes, word creatures and PoEMMs you can touch

'This was not supposed to happen': excerpts from Stephanie Bolster's Long Exposure

'Every last vein crammed with absence': poet Sina Queyras on grief

Summer book list: 15 great reads

'Joyceans are the Star Trek fans of the book world'

The private (digital) life of plants

The top 5 things to do in Montreal: April 30 to May 13

Performance + migration at Blue Metropolis

The top 5 things to do in Montreal: April 16 to 29

The top 5 things to do in Montreal: April 2 to 16

Infographic: Jonathan Goldstein and Erica Lehrer at Thinking Out Loud

Assia Djebar remembered

Infographic: William Gibson and Fenwick McKelvey at Thinking Out Loud

Holiday book list: 16 great reads

Notes from a Concordia author

'Like Pop Rocks on the tongue' — readings from My Paris, and more

Fiction: excerpt from The Roof

Summer book list: 18 great reads