Spring 2017

Accordéon

Accordéon

Kaie Kellough's Accordéon is a smart experimental novel with a timely message about culture and diversity in the city of Montreal.

By Sara Spike

Arabic for Beginners

Arabic for Beginners

Arabic for Beginners, a shape-shifting fictional narrative by Ariela Freedman, is a nuanced and penetrating exploration of life in Israel today.

By Claire Holden Rothman

Tumbleweed

Tumbleweed

In Tumbleweed, Josip Novakovich is equipped with a deep writer’s arsenal – a sharp eye for the telling detail, a subtly rhythmic prose style, and deadpan humour.

By Ian McGillis

In on the Great Joke

In on the Great Joke

“Right words sound wrong,” Laura Broadbent opens in her latest book, In on the Great Joke. Borrowing Lao Tzu’s words, Broadbent explores this “wrongness” of language, its limits, mistranslations, and shortcomings.

By Gillian Sze

Black Writing Matters

Black Writing Matters

Inspired by the Black Lives Canada Syllabus, activist Robyn Maynard explores the past, present, and future of Black writing and resilience in Montreal.

By Robyn Maynard

Spring 2017 Cartoon

Spring 2017 Cartoon

Lisa Czech is a Montreal illustrator and the creator of the comic Punk Village.

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The Lonely Hearts Hotel

The Lonely Hearts Hotel

In The Lonely Hearts Hotel, the beautiful contrasted with the vulgar creates a world that feels more make-believe than real – a world in soft focus.

By Sacha Jackson

Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars

Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars

Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars by Kai Cheng Thom is a book that uses its warmhearted critique of the conventional tropes of the trans memoir as a way to reinvent those very tropes in fabulist Technicolor.

By Jacob Wren

Never, Again

Never, Again

In Never, Again, set during the Hungarian Uprising of 1956, a child protagonist not yet fettered by the burdens of history lends the novel its greatest strength: a subtle balance between everyday ubiquity and unimaginable horror.

By Danielle Barkley

The Longest Year

The Longest Year

Daniel Grenier’s ambitious debut novel spans thousands of kilometres across North America and hundreds of years of history as it reflects on the nature of memory, love, and mortality.

By Jeff Miller

The End, by Anna / Baloney

The End, by Anna / Baloney

Reviews of two novellas that explore lives in poetry: The End, by Anna, by Adam Zachary, and Baloney by Maxime Raymond Bock, tr. Pablo Strauss.

By Aimee Wall

Behold Things Beautiful

Behold Things Beautiful

Behold Things Beautiful is a richly textured novel that reflects extensive knowledge of the performing and visual arts. Siré’s creation of ambiance is impressive.

By H. Nigel Thomas