Illustration by Oliver Gadoury

Illustration by Oliver Gadoury

Oliver Gadoury is a Montreal-based illustrator and designer with a passion for visual storytelling, human-centred branding, and beautifully crafted websites. His work is inspired by everyday life – urban landscapes, personal interactions, and the communities around him.

The Reeds

Arjun Basu's novel is is a love song to Montreal in all of its gritty complexity and contradictions.

By Ami Sands Brodoff

Illustration by Oliver Gadoury

Illustration by Oliver Gadoury

Oliver Gadoury is a Montreal-based illustrator and designer with a passion for visual storytelling, human-centred branding, and beautifully crafted websites. His work is inspired by everyday life – urban landscapes, personal interactions, and the communities around him.

May Our Joy Endure

Lambert's gaze is oceanic, homing in on individuals and zooming out to the systems within which they operate.

By Marisa Grizenko

mRb Fall 2024 Launch

mRb Fall 2024 Launch

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) and Jacob Wren (Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim).
Mainstreaming Porn

Mainstreaming Porn

An in-depth look at the capitalist and corporate backdrop that informs sex and eroticism.

By Sruti Islam

The Capital of Dreams

The Capital of Dreams

Heather O’Neill’s own bold and bewitching words, steeped in symbolism, are as exciting to unpack as an epic dream.

By Kimberly Bourgeois

The Sacred Heart Motel

The Sacred Heart Motel

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

The Great Right North

The Great Right North

Crucially, the authors try to answer the million-dollar question: what is to be done about the far right in Canada?

By Nora Loreto

It Really Is

It Really Is

Cole Degenstein's graphic novel is an honest reflection on isolation, seasonal depression, the poetry in daily life.

By Sasha Khalimonova

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News and Announcements

mRb Fall 2024 Launch

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) and Jacob Wren (Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim).

Robyn Fadden, RIP

Robyn Fadden, a contributor to the mRb among countless other local cultural projects, died of cancer on September 23, 2024.

Summer 2024 Issue Out Now!

The Summer 2024 Issue of the Montreal Review of Books is out and in the world! All our reviews and interviews are individually available online, and if you want to read them alongside the gorgeous cover art by Peter Krausz and inside illustration by Zoe Maeve, we also have a PDF of the issue available here for those interested.