Ariella Kharasch

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).

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.

Nov 1, 2023 | mtlreviewofbooks.ca | Meaghan Thurston |Jim Burke |Ariella Kharasch |Alexandra Trnka

Skating Wild on an Inland SeaJean E. PendziwolIllustrated by Todd StewartGroundwood Books$19.99paper32pp9781773067049 Two children wake at dawn and eat oatmeal by a crackling fire in a solitary cabin in the woods. In the distance, the call of the wolf breaks the silence of the morning.

Mar 16, 2023 | mtlreviewofbooks.ca | Nour Abi-Nakhoul |Alexandra Trnka |Ariella Kharasch |Adam Hill

In pediatric psychology, a “dandelion child” is a person who has resilience embedded deeply within them, biologically encoded into their DNA. Like the omnipresent yellow-petalled weed, they will thrive regardless of the environment they’re brought up in – even in situations that would destroy others’ spirits.