Illustration by Maylee Keo
Maylee Keo is an illustrator and 2D animator based in Montreal. Her work is colourful, whimsical and lively, a bit like her. You can see her values through her work and she doesn’t hesitate to share her platform to those who might need it.
Fanny Britt brings her readers on a powerful journey through privilege, belonging, and the search for connection.
By Ashley Fish-Robertson
Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel and co-author Sean Carleton revisit the Oka Crisis in their new collaboration.
By Emma Dollery
Illustration by Maylee Keo
Maylee Keo is an illustrator and 2D animator based in Montreal. Her work is colourful, whimsical and lively, a bit like her. You can see her values through her work and she doesn’t hesitate to share her platform to those who might need it.
Arjun Basu's novel is is a love song to Montreal in all of its gritty complexity and contradictions.
By Ami Sands Brodoff
This collection examines how young people their families make sense of and navigate war and its aftermath.
By Taylor C. Noakes
Jacob Wren’s novel grapples with questions of violence, complicity, authority, collectivity, resistance, and doubt.
By H Felix Chau Bradley
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An in-depth look at the capitalist and corporate backdrop that informs sex and eroticism.
By Sruti Islam
Heather O’Neill’s own bold and bewitching words, steeped in symbolism, are as exciting to unpack as an epic dream.
By Kimberly Bourgeois
One of the sheer brilliances of Kwan’s book is turning migration into a love poem and love into a migration.
By Carlos A. Pittella
Crucially, the authors try to answer the million-dollar question: what is to be done about the far right in Canada?
By Nora Loreto
Cole Degenstein's graphic novel is an honest reflection on isolation, seasonal depression, the poetry in daily life.
By Sasha Khalimonova
Fiction
By Ashley Fish-Robertson
By Kimberly Bourgeois
By Phoebe Yì Lǐng
Non-fiction
By Taylor C. Noakes
By Sruti Islam
By Nora Loreto
Graphic Novels
By Sasha Khalimonova
By Emily Raine
By Billie Gagné-LeBel
Young Readers
Poetry
By Carlos A. Pittella
By Carlos A. Pittella
By Carlos A. Pittella
News and Announcements
For your enjoyment, here are the year's reviews, and feature interviews, that were our most popular in 2024.
The mRb launches its Fall 2024 issue on Wednesday, October 30th at P'tit Ours (formerly Ursa)! Join us for readings by Arjun Basu (The Reeds), Amal Elsana Alh'jooj (Hope is a Woman's Name) and Jacob Wren (Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim).
Robyn Fadden, a contributor to the mRb among countless other local cultural projects, died of cancer on September 23, 2024.