Reviews

Esther: A Jewish Odyssey

Pierre Lasry published the historical novel, Une juive en nouvelle-France, in 2002. It won the J. I. Segal ...

By Margaret Goldik

Running the Race

On the last page of the thriller Race without Rules Grant left the reader with Megan Brodie poised to make ...

By Margaret Goldik

Home Sweet Home

In "Home Is Where You Hang Yourself," the opening essay in this collection, Richler makes a grudging confession. ...

By Joel Yanofsky

The Luck of Ginger Coffey

The Luck of Ginger Coffey, a harrowing tale about the misfortunes of an Irish immigrant in Montreal, was ...

By William Weintraub

Missing Fred Astaire

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

The Favourite Game

It's a toss-up as to which of these two books I've re-read most often over the past four decades. While there are ...

By T. F. Rigelhof

Mackenzie Queen

I first came across the work of Montreal cartoonist Bernie Mireault in 1987, when he illustrated a run of Matt ...

By Claude Lalumière

Dangling Man

Great writers-uppercase G, writers of genius-have great memories, measurelessly deep, preternaturally vivid. Or so ...

By Jeffrey Moore

Franck Robinson monte au paradis

You won't find an English version of David MacKinnon's Return Ticket in bookstores. It hasn't been ...

By Marianne Ackerman

Prisoner in a Red-Rose Chain

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

Life of Pi

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