Val Rwigema

Jul 4, 2024 | mtlreviewofbooks.ca | Val Rwigema

With contributing writers from both the local and international community, Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch and Samia Marshy share their co-edited anthology, El Ghourabaa. The foreword is written by Sherine Elbanhawy, founder of the literary magazine Rowayat. Both Elbanhawy’s foreword and the introduction from the editors give us some cultural and historical context behind Arab anthologies, as well as the general importance of anthologies in the literary world.

Jul 5, 2023 | mtlreviewofbooks.ca | Sharon Morrisey |Val Rwigema |Dana Bath |Meaghan Thurston

A review of Everything is Ori by Paul Serge Forest Published on July 5, 2023 Some novels require the reader to stretch their mind to grasp what, exactly, they are reading. Paul Serge Forest’s first novel, Everything is Ori, is one of these.

Jul 5, 2023 | mtlreviewofbooks.ca | Salena Wiener |Val Rwigema |Dana Bath |Meaghan Thurston

John Reibetanz’s poetry collection rewrites Ovid’s Metamorphosis with a distinct ecological sensibility. His collection is at once classic and timely as it takes up the ancient poem and recontextualizes Ovid’s concerns with nature and the nonhuman for our contemporary moment.

Jul 5, 2023 | mtlreviewofbooks.ca | Roxane Hudon |Val Rwigema |Dana Bath |Meaghan Thurston

A review of Kukum by Michel Jean Published on July 5, 2023 Almanda Siméon was an orphan, nomad, hunter, artisan, avid reader, and the resilient great-grandmother of Innu writer and journalist Michel Jean.

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.