Reviews

Still Life

Louise Penny is a former CBC radio host, and there is a whiff of CBC political correctness about this debut ...

By Margaret Goldik

Overexposed

Overexposed is a sequel to If Looks Could Kill, which was a finalist for the 1999 Chapters/Robertson ...

By Margaret Goldik

Cutting Corners

The Donovans of Westmount lose a beloved son in a hit-and-run accident, and his death tears the family apart. The ...

By Margaret Goldik

The Silver Palace Restaurant

In a recent mRb, you named Leonard Cohen's Stranger Music as your favourite Montreal book, saying ...

By Ian McGillis

The Encantadas

Robert Allen is a formidable figure in Canadian literature. A poet and novelist, he is also editor of ...

By Bert Almon

Satie’s Sad Piano

For the past decade or so, I've been sharing my deep, dark secret with students across the country: I hated poetry ...

By Carolyn Marie Souaid

The Theory of the Loser Class

"Post-prairie poet" is an appealing phrase, one that could become fashionable in years to come, and yet it's ...

By Faustus Salvador

The Portable conundrum

It's a drizzly Thursday night on St-Laurent, that great boulevard where all that is Montreal collides and ...

By Kimberly Bourgeois

Baglady

This blackly comic novel tells the story of Ashley Grimes, from her youth with an astrologer father and ...

By Margaret Goldik