Nadia Trudel

Montreal

Writer and Host at Freelance

mysterious & aloof writer girl (bylines CBC, MTV News, Headlights Anthology, The Link, Cult MTL, Substack etc etc)

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Articles

Elvie, Girl Under Glass • Montreal Review of Books

Jul 3, 2024 | mtlreviewofbooks.ca | Nadia Trudel

Joan Didion said we tell ourselves stories in order to live. Elvie, Girl Under Glass is the culmination of how, with distance and healing, we can attempt to organize the chaos of our lives into coherent narratives – for art, for memory, for further healing, or maybe for activism.
Blacklion • Montreal Review of Books

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.
Little Fury • Montreal Review of Books

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.
I’m Hungry! • Montreal Review of Books

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.
Theophylline • Montreal Review of Books

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.
Roaming • Montreal Review of Books

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.
An Inner Grace • Montreal Review of Books

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.
Blackward • Montreal Review of Books

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.
Continuum • Montreal Review of Books

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.
bodies like gardens

Nov 1, 2023 | mtlreviewofbooks.ca | Zoe Shaw |Ian McGillis |Nadia Trudel |Alexandra Trnka

A review of bodies like gardens by Salena Wiener Published on November 1, 2023 Salena Wiener’s chapbook is intimate and personal, focused on the relationship between the speakers and their bodies in relation to other people. Violence, delicacy, and decay darken the eighteen poems that are set within a tender ecology of the body.