JB Staniforth

Jan 11, 2024 | mtlreviewofbooks.ca | Adam Hill |JB Staniforth |Aishwarya Singh |Connor Harrison

From the caviar-like eggs of the Mexican water fly, to ancient olive trees in Puglia, Italy, to camas, the pre-contact root vegetable of the Pacific Northwest, The Lost Supper serves up an alt-gastronomic romp, promising to shuttle the reader back and forth between the foodways of antiquity and the front lines of sustainable agriculture today.

Jan 1, 2024 | mtlreviewofbooks.ca | JB Staniforth |Aishwarya Singh |Connor Harrison |Nived Dharmaraj

As this year draws to a close, we thought we take a moment to reflect back on our reviews this past year and see what resonated most with you all. Reminiscent of our Fall 2023 Issue features’ focus on AI, the algorithm is both terrifying and fun to contend with. By examining our website’s traffic and analytics, we were able see which reviews stood out to our mRb audience – scroll down to discover them! * 1.

Dec 30, 2023 | mtlreviewofbooks.ca | JB Staniforth |Aishwarya Singh |Connor Harrison |Jocelyn Parr

In mid-2018, as Canada counted down toward that October’s adult-use cannabis legalization, reports emerged that licensed cannabis producers had already bought up enough commercial cultivation property to produce some 50% more than the amount of cannabis Canadians were estimated to be able to consume annually. This was bad news, since cannabis could not be commercially exported.

Nov 30, 2023 | mtlreviewofbooks.ca | Connor Harrison |Jocelyn Parr |JB Staniforth

Are You Willing to Die for the Cause?, Chris Oliveros’ new graphic novel on the emergence of the Front de Libération du Québec (FLQ), begins in 1963 with a Belgian immigrant. A World War II veteran and protégé of Fidel Castro who’s sick of daily Francophobia from English Canada, Georges Schoeters decides to organize. In the tiny basement apartment he shares with his wife and two children, Schoeters and his fellow FLQ founders write their manifesto.

Nov 16, 2023 | mtlreviewofbooks.ca | Jocelyn Parr |JB Staniforth |Nived Dharmaraj

Elizabeth Abbott's book fictionalizes Dr. Maude Abbott’s life, revealing how she defied the bounds set for women ... Wayne Ng's novel teaches us that family certainly provides us with the fuel for our own growth, although this ... Norman Nawrocki's “fictional chronicle” of the seven-month 2012 Quebec student strike is a love letter to a ...