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.
Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel and co-author Sean Carleton revisit the Oka Crisis in their new collaboration.
By Emma Dollery
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
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.
Lambert's gaze is oceanic, homing in on individuals and zooming out to the systems within which they operate.
By Marisa Grizenko
Jacob Wren’s novel grapples with questions of violence, complicity, authority, collectivity, resistance, and doubt.
By H Felix Chau Bradley
This collection showcases the best of Mavis Gallant as a Canadian journalist.
By Roxane Hudon
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).
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 Kimberly Bourgeois
By Phoebe Yì Lǐng
By Alexandra Sweny
Non-fiction
By Sruti Islam
By Nora Loreto
By Brooke Lee
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
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, a contributor to the mRb among countless other local cultural projects, died of cancer on September 23, 2024.
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.