Tara McGowan-Ross’s memoir is a reflection on grief, mortality, breaking up, messing up, and (almost) growing up.
By Roxane Hudon
Interviews
Everything about Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch’s poetry collection The Good Arabs is open-ended, curious, trying.
By Emily Mernin
Montreal-based author Sylvain Neuvel talks about his historical sci-fi spy thriller, the first book in his new trilogy.
By Natalia Yanchak
With their fiction debut, Helen Chau Bradley spills their guts in ten intimate, queer stories.
By Billie Gagné-LeBel
A graphic interview with Joe Ollmann about his award-nominated graphic novel Fictional Father.
By Arizona O'Neill
What exactly constitutes a "real" family? Questions like this are at the heart of Christopher DiRaddo's novel The Family Way.
By Peter Dubé
Scott’s modes of questioning vary over time, but her concerns remain constant: feminism, queerness, class struggle, resisting capitalism and neoliberalism, the shape of sentences.
By H Felix Chau Bradley
A unique blend of mystery, political commentary, and magic realism, Edem Awumey's Mina among the Shadows is first and foremost a story about love.
By Roxane Hudon
The 2020 Montreal Poetry Prize, whose criterion for submission is an original English-language poem of under forty lines, received a staggering 4,645 international entries. An international jury of ten poets work to create individual shortlists, which are then submitted to the year’s judge.
By Rachel McCrum
Tawhida Tanya Evanson is a seasoned poet, spoken word performer, and oral storyteller, and her craft is evident in this first work of prose fiction.
By H Felix Chau Bradley
rushes from the river disappointment by stephanie roberts is a sweeping force of music, pulsing images, clear wit, and tenderness.
By T. Liem
Linda Leith's The Girl From Dream City is an intimate and engaging story of her journey from a challenging girlhood in Northern Ireland to becoming a novelist, translator, and one of Canada’s leading literary curators.
By Ami Sands Brodoff