Editorial note: Charles William Johnson shares some of his intriguing and controversial research into ancient art forms, with special reference […]
The Literature Issue: Intersections between science and art
Vol 32 No 4

The Bad Hamlet: from Shakespeare’s quill, through Bunbury’s library, to Dawson’s theatre
Along the south bank of the River Thames strode a sunken-faced man carrying a small book. The man, […]

Intersections between science and art
Perhaps scientific understanding and artistic imagining are different aspects of the same impulse. And humanity’s great understanders and […]

Scientifically fantastic creatures: the animated engravings of Amanda Woolrich
Montréal Serai editor Claudia Itzkowich visited Amanda Woolrich in her studio to prepare this piece. An etching press […]

The Shape of Yearning
Call of the Loon Come back. It’s cold here without you. When I bend my neck to drink […]

An Ecology of Death
My father’s death defeated me; I felt robbed by it. It didn’t come as a surprise because he […]

The Problem of Joy
Mitochondrial Eve A plague of poppies: salmon, tomato, apricot. Some years I save the seeds, audible in upright […]

First Principles and Aesthetics
When we say first principles, we claim we are going down to the basics. To a fundamental truth. Being […]

Touching on Tangents
Turbulence it’s not the breath, in or out not quite breath’s only the boundary sneaks past smooth ebbs on […]

Science versus Art: A Medical Practitioner Ruminates
One reason to go to medical school can be a letter from a university congratulating you on a successful […]

Gratia Plena: An essay on dementia and love
I I find her hunched in her chair a wizened crow wrapped in a food-smeared bib porridge drying on […]

Where Science Meets Art and Becomes One
The zeitgeist of our times is characterized by creativity and innovation, particularly in the fields of art and […]

Cardinal Flower
Cardinal Flower Red flash— a few sprigs puncture the monotony of brown-green bog, never-ending evergreens and skeletons of cedar. […]

Art’s Longing, Medicine’s Ways
ODE TO HIPPOCRATES Who’s Hippocrates, I know, in Crete or someplace else – calling out to the Sirens, the […]

Science and Art: Two Faces of the Truth
“In its encounter with Nature, science invariably elicits a sense of reverence and awe. The very act of understanding […]

Snow Is Falling
Snow Is Falling Snow is falling. The earth turns white. Its new skin is as smooth as silk. The […]

Summernote V, Chernobyl, and Totenwald
Summernote V Call her goddess of heath and yellow gorse. Tell her you have left the moon unlit. […]

South Asian Film Festival: Montréal 2019. Portraits of Cultural Decline and Resilience in Films from Pakistan
The South Asian Film Festival of Montréal (SAFFM) was launched in 2011. Since then it has established a […]

Cheeky Mathematics
Cheeky Mathematics He and she fuse their cells with the sticky glue of their warm juices Two cells […]