Emily Raine

Oct 30, 2024 | mtlreviewofbooks.ca | Emily Raine

Tara Booth’s Processing: 100 Comics That Got Me Through It is doing the work. The subhead is apt; this thick, densely illustrated tome hits somewhere between art book, autobiography, self-help journal, and comic, and Booth’s unique swirl of vivid colours, wryly embodied humour, and self-deprecating sincerity feel fresh and lively.

Apr 14, 2023 | mtlreviewofbooks.ca | Taylor C. Noakes |Malcolm Fraser |Emily Raine

This Side of Light (Selected Poems 1995-2020) A review of This Side of Light by Carolyn Marie Souaid Published on April 14, 2023 The one thing that stands out when you read Carolyn Marie Souaid’s This Side of Light: Selected Poems (1995-2020) is that she has been resonating for 25 years. Poems from her first collection, Swimming into the Light (1995), have as much power as those from her last collection, The Eleventh Hour (2020). Indeed, she has different concerns, different areas of focus,...

Mar 16, 2023 | mtlreviewofbooks.ca | Ami Sands Brodoff |Taylor C. Noakes |Malcolm Fraser |Emily Raine

A review of Full Fadom Five by David C.C. Bourgeois Published on March 16, 2023 Our contemporary culture loves categories, yet some of the best fiction defies easy classification. Such is the case with David C.C. Bourgeois’ Full Fadom Five.

Mar 16, 2023 | mtlreviewofbooks.ca | Taylor C. Noakes |Malcolm Fraser |Emily Raine |Ami Sands Brodoff

The Possession of Barbe Hallay A review of The Possession of Barbe Hallay by Mairi Cowan Published on March 16, 2023 It is always a treat to find a nugget of information in a history book that’s immediately applicable to a contemporary social or political issue, particularly so when that book is about the demonic possession of a seventeenth-century teenage girl. Plus ça change. I admit that I initially figured Mairi Cowan’s The Possession of Barbe Hallay would be a historical exploration of a...

Mar 16, 2023 | mtlreviewofbooks.ca | Val Rwigema |Taylor C. Noakes |Malcolm Fraser |Emily Raine

A review of Where They Stood by The Black Community Resource Centre Published on March 16, 2023 When it comes to detailed accounts of Black history in Canada, the pickings are slim, and most are centred around violence and oppression.