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Richard King's Banking on Life definitely belongs in the long line of Montreal detective novels, with its polished writing and rapid-paced action, all taking place in the well-known nooks and crannies of today’s city.
Review by ["Sharon Morrisey"]
By Sharon Morrisey
In this collection, seven essayists write on a diverse array of intersections between music and politics.
Review by ["Malcolm Fraser"]
By Malcolm Fraser
Pascal Girard's graphic novel Rebecca and Lucie in the Case of the Missing Neighbor is a poignant, uplifting, at times hilarious, and feminist Montreal mystery.
Review by ["Esinam Beckley"]
By Esinam Beckley
With her latest graphic novel, a study of how the best and worst aspects of families can be passed from generation to generation, Weng Pixin is exploring rich and timeless thematic ground, and she fully does it justice.
Review by ["Ian McGillis"]
By Ian McGillis
The Gift is Zoe Maeve’s debut YA graphic novel about Anastasia Nikolaevna, daughter of the last tsar of Russia.
Review by ["Heather Leighton"]
By Heather Leighton
New work from Cora Siré, Jessi MacEachern, Ken Norris, Chad Campbell and Jocelyne Dubois in our summer poetry roundup.
Review by ["Robyn Fadden"]
By Robyn Fadden
A fisherman's tall tale, a budding theatre impresario, a heartwarming refugee story, an inspiring tale of independence, and a rebellious head of hair in our roundup of the season's books for children.
Review by ["B. A. Markus"]
By B. A. Markus
What exactly constitutes a "real" family? Questions like this are at the heart of Christopher DiRaddo's novel The Family Way.
Review by ["Peter Dubu00e9"]
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.
Review by ["Helen Chau Bradley"]
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.
Review by ["Roxane Hudon"]
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.
Review by ["Rachel McCrum"]
By Rachel McCrum
Michael Occhionero’s ALT•4•1 is an existentialist, dystopian science fiction novel that ponders the fate of humanity under corporate hegemony.
Review by ["Natalia Yanchak"]
By Natalia Yanchak