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Fifteenth Issue
Volume 8, No. 1

features

Drawn From Memory
By Adnrew Steinmetz

Food For Fiction
By Ian McGillis

fiction

The Worthwhile Flux
Reviewed by Kim Bourgeois

Second Sight
Reviewed by Byron Ray Rempel

A Cannibal And Melancholy Mourning
Reviewed by X. I. Selene

A Hard Winter Rain
Reviewed by Elizabeth Johnston

A Short Journey By Car
Reviewed by Mark Abley

Seventeen Tomatoes: Tales From Kashmir
Reviewed by Andrea Belcham

Look For Me
Reviewed by Claire Holden Rothman

Wally
Reviewed by Phil H awes

The Man Who Hated Emily Bronte
Reviewed by William Brown

fiction at a glance

Race Without Rules
Reviewed by Margaret Goldik

Yeshua: A Personal Memoir Of The Missing Years Of Jesus
Reviewed by Margaret Goldik

The Watch Boys And Other Stories
Reviewed by Margaret Goldik

The Ideal Miniature Library
Reviewed by Ian McGillis

non-fiction

A Lover's Quarrel: Essays And Reviews
Reviewed by Douglas Rollins

Black Then: Blacks In Montreal 1780s-1880s
Reviewed by Joel Yanofsky

Nothing Sacred: A Journey Beyond Belief
Reviewed by Mark Heffernan

Out Of Bounds: The Glen Mountain Ski Story
Reviewed by Margaret Goldik

A Gentleman Of Substance: The Life And Legacy Of John Redpath
Reviewed by Margaret Goldik

Travelling Light: The Way And Life Of Tony Walsh
Reviewed by Joan Eyolfson Cadham

The Madonna Of The St. Denis Bar-bq
Reviewed by Joan Eyolfson Cadham

Bannock, Beans And Black Tea
Reviewed by Jill Rollins

Tell Me Why Nights Are Lonesome
Reviewed by Jill Rollins

non-fiction at a glance

Fabulous Quebec
Reviewed by Margaret Goldik

Self, Nation, Text In Salman Rushdie's
Reviewed by Ian McGillis

The Trans Canada Trail In Quebec
Reviewed by Margaret Goldik

Montreal
Reviewed by Margaret Goldik

poetry

With English Subtitles
Reviewed by Bert Almon

Postscript
Reviewed by Bert Almon

Intimations Of A Realm In Jeopardy
Reviewed by Bert Almon

Lettricity
Reviewed by Kim Bourgeois

Rue Du Regard
Reviewed by Bert Almon

young readers

Maria Chapdelaine
Reviewed by Carol-Ann Hoyte

As Long As There Are Whales
Reviewed by Carol-Ann Hoyte

Polar Skater
Reviewed by Carol-Ann Hoyte

Amazing Things Animals Do
Reviewed by Carol-Ann Hoyte

The Penguin And The Pea
Reviewed by Carol-Ann Hoyte

Jabbberwocky
Reviewed by Carol-Ann Hoyte

Celestine And The Magical Geranium
Reviewed by Carol-Ann Hoyte

Penda, The Little Star
Reviewed by Carol-Ann Hoyte

Dad's Car
Reviewed by Carol-Ann Hoyte

Fighting The Current
Reviewed by Carol-Ann Hoyte

Total Recall

Jeffrey Moore's The Memory Artists

By Adnrew Steinmetz

New Document The Memory Artists is a tragicomedy with a flip postmodern heart. Set in contemporary Montreal, largely in the ne... READ MORE

Liam Durcan's A Short Journey By Car

By Mark Abley

New Document Right from the start, Liam Durcan�s debut collection of stories rips free of convention. That title may conjure up visio... READ MORE

Carmine Starnino

Two New Books

By Douglas Rollins

New Document Carmine Starnino is a poet and editor whose lively and engaging critical voice has joined the small but growing chorus o... READ MORE

New Document We wish to thank
the Canada Council for the Arts
the Department of Canadian Heritage
SODEC
and the Canada Council for the Arts and the Department of Canadian Heritage
through the Interdepartmental Partnership with Official Language Communities
for their generous support
without which this publication would not exist.

New Document Montreal Review of Books
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