I wasn't yet a Montrealer when I first started reading Montreal writers. On my first visit here in 1988 from Los ...
By Denise Roig
Fiction
The Luck of Ginger Coffey, a harrowing tale about the misfortunes of an Irish immigrant in Montreal, was ...
By William Weintraub
In "Home Is Where You Hang Yourself," the opening essay in this collection, Richler makes a grudging confession. ...
By Joel Yanofsky
On the last page of the thriller Race without Rules Grant left the reader with Megan Brodie poised to make ...
By Margaret Goldik
Pierre Lasry published the historical novel, Une juive en nouvelle-France, in 2002. It won the J. I. Segal ...
By Margaret Goldik
When I first moved to Montreal eight years ago I chose an apartment in Mile End. It was actually a bit of a dump, ...
By Ian McGillis
Let me tell you something about Beauchemins, since I know a few of them: Our family tree goes way back, seriously ...
By Raymond Beauchemin
Life of Pi is not set in Montreal, nor does it contain one reference to the city. In fact it has several ...
By Diana McNeil
It's always been a complaint of mine that Montreal, a city I've had a long-term love affair with, has never ...
By Tess Fragoulis
What could persuade a young man to strap explosives to his body and blow himself up along with everyone around ...
By Linda Leith
Martine Desjardins’ latest is a literary mystery: a compelling story marked by the fantastical, with deeply ...
By Ami Sands Brodoff
In the aptly titled Girls Closed In, France Théoret vividly evokes the thwarted passion of a shy ...
By Ami Sands Brodoff