It’s midnight in Tiohtiá:ke /Montréal and Julie Tamiko Manning fills her kitchen with the smell of baked goods for tomorrow’s rehearsal. Umeboshi onigiri (rice balls) cool on a simple plate on an ordinary kitchen table […]
The latest novel of Sarah Gilbert, Our Lady of Mile End, is a collection of seventeen interlinked stories that speak to the fabled and romantic neighbourhood of Mile End, Montreal, and Canada. The warm-hearted and […]
The highly anticipated novel by David Connor, titled “Oh God the Sun Goes,” fearlessly defies all conventions for debut books. It possesses a profound absurdity, an emotionally resonating quality, and a distinct sense of originality. […]
Maybe the back of a book can also describe the inside of a person. If you pick up and turn over Mark Abley’s nonfiction book Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages, you’ll see the publisher’s […]
8-years of age separate my younger brother Russell Brooks and me. This age gap likely contributed to him choosing different interests and paths. At an early age, he always showed determination to achieve any goal […]
Ara Osterweil is a painter born in Brooklyn and based in Montreal, where she is also an Associate Professor of English at McGill, as well as a frequent contributor to Artforum. She studied at the […]
Judith Woodsworth has always had a way with words and she has always been in love with language and languages, trying to make her way in the many countries we have visited, from China to […]
From Nashville’s legendary Bluebird Cafe to the Festival Country de Lotbinière in Quebec, Justine Blanchet is bringing her own brand of sophistication, fearlessness, and culture to the country music world. Drawn to country music for […]
Gabriel Cholette fascinates by his atypical background. In addition to being an author and professor of creative writing at the University of Montreal, he has a Doctorate in Medieval Literature. Writing the bio of this […]
I first met Tamara Scherbak when she was a precocious, bubbly, disarmingly confident adolescent behind a video camera. She filmed and interviewed me for her first documentary assignment for a Dawson College film class. What […]
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