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Mar 7, 2024 | 
mtlreviewofbooks.ca | Jim Burke |Ariella Kharasch |Alexandra Trnka |Nived Dharmaraj
The Montreal Review of Books launches its Spring 2024 issue on Thursday, March 14th, at Hotel 10 (10 Sherbrooke Street West) in partnership with the Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival!Following the festival’s 2024 programming announcement, join us in Espace Godin for refreshments and readings by Louisa Blair (The Calf With Two Heads, Baraka Books), Jay Ritchie (Listening in Many Publics, Invisible Publishing) and Oonya Kempadoo (Naniki, Dundurn Press).
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Feb 8, 2024 | 
mtlreviewofbooks.ca | Jim Burke |Ariella Kharasch |Alexandra Trnka |Adam Hill
Not long ago, a colleague complained to me that too much of Canadian drama nowadays consists of inward-looking “theatrical selfies.” Three newly published play texts, Trench Patterns, Shorelines, and Blackout go a long way towards mitigating that criticism.
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Nov 1, 2023 | 
mtlreviewofbooks.ca | Sharon Morrisey |Ian McGillis |Nadia Trudel |Alexandra Trnka
The aloofness of the American cowboy permeates the personality of CIA agent Raymond Daly, protagonist of Luke Francis Beirne’s Blacklion. Except Beirne’s novel is not set in the Wild West, but in Ireland, right at the northern border, during the time of the Troubles.
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Nov 1, 2023 | 
mtlreviewofbooks.ca | Roxane Hudon |Ian McGillis |Nadia Trudel |Alexandra Trnka
The title of Casey Bell’s debut fiction collection, Little Fury, has a cute ring to it. It could be the name of an adorable superhero, or a twee film about teenage love. The book’s cover is also deceptively pretty: pastel pink with a smudge of neon green. But don’t be fooled; Bell’s stories depict emotions that are immense, overwhelming.
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Nov 1, 2023 | 
mtlreviewofbooks.ca | Meaghan Thurston |Ian McGillis |Nadia Trudel |Alexandra Trnka
All around the world at any given moment (but most predictably when one has just set off on the day’s activities), “I’m hungry!” rings out from the mouths of children. This ravenous demand is met either by a snack that was packed with heroic foresight by the adult in charge or by the bark, “You’ll have to wait!” Suppers around the world shan’t be spoiled.
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Nov 1, 2023 | 
mtlreviewofbooks.ca | Zoe Shaw |Ian McGillis |Nadia Trudel |Alexandra Trnka
A review of Theophylline by Erín Moure and Elisa Sampedrín Published on November 1, 2023 Erín Moure’s latest collection, a triumphant work of essai-poetry, combines academic research and cultural criticism, intertwined with original and translated poems.
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Nov 1, 2023 | 
mtlreviewofbooks.ca | Ian McGillis |Nadia Trudel |Alexandra Trnka |Zoe Shaw
A book’s acknowledgements section rarely makes for particularly illuminating reading. Jillian and Mariko Tamaki, however, slip a quiet zinger into the last page of Roaming, their new graphic novel about three young women on a low-budget rite-of-passage trip to New York in 2009. “The events of this story are both too real and entirely fictional,” they write.
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Nov 1, 2023 | 
mtlreviewofbooks.ca | Jocelyn Parr |Ian McGillis |Nadia Trudel |Alexandra Trnka
As I read Elizabeth L. Abbott’s An Inner Grace: The Life Story of Dr. Maude Abbott and the Advent of Heart Surgery, I was simultaneously reading Howard Adams’ Prison of Grass: Canada from a Native Point of View. Adams’ book is now almost fifty years old, but when it came out, it rewrote white supremacist narratives about Indigenous governance and the history of nation-building in Canada.
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Nov 1, 2023 | 
mtlreviewofbooks.ca | Esinam Beckley |Ian McGillis |Nadia Trudel |Alexandra Trnka
Lawrence Lindell’s Blackward is a journey through friendship, identity, and the power of zine culture. The story opens with a glimpse into the lives of four friends, each navigating their morning routines, setting the stage for their zine-making adventures.
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Nov 1, 2023 | 
mtlreviewofbooks.ca | Zoe Shaw |Ian McGillis |Nadia Trudel |Alexandra Trnka
A review of Continuum by Ivanna Baranova Published on November 1, 2023 Ivanna Baranova’s second poetry book with Metatron Press is a collection of longings – longings for a lover, for a deeper connection to nature, and more.
