Montreal Serai

December, 2009

Editorial

01-12-09

Why Literature still matters Rana Bose

“Now, it is clear that the decline of a language must ultimately have political and economic causes: it is not  Read more…

Art

01-12-09

Landscape paintings by Julian Samuel, 2009 Julian Samuel

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Commentary

01-12-09

Because it opens your Heart Maya Khankhoje

                    Literature has always been important, is still important and will continue to be important for as long as human  Read more…

Commentary

01-12-09

“Learning my ABCs” Durga Chew-Bose

  Often inflated and possibly misleading, the titles I chose for my college Lit essays were always picked last and  Read more…

Commentary

01-12-09

Proverbs writ large Anna Fuerstenberg

The novel encourages – a form of storytelling that promotes our sense of being individual, but never forgetting the bond  Read more…

Theatre Review

01-12-09

Lipsynch Nancy Ferragallo

  Quebec’s Robert Lepage and his company, Ex Machina, collaborated with Theatre Sans Frontieres to bring  Lipsynch, to The Brooklyn  Read more…

Short Story

01-12-09

The World in Her Hands Maya Khankhoje

                Samira sat on the floor of her adobe hut studying her hands as carefully as if she  Read more…

Interview

01-12-09

Water Marks & Battle of Wills – Interview with Anne Henderson, documentary film maker. Susan Dubrofsky

    In October 1975 Roy Lowther was charged with the murder of his wife, Pat, a gifted and renowned  Read more…

Performance Art

01-12-09

Defending Her Hotel Juliana Keller

    WOMAN WILLING TO DEFEND HER HOTEL – MEXICO CITY [ZOCALO] HOTEL ISABEL 2003   I was invited to  Read more…

Short Story

01-12-09

The Honorable Rawi Hage

   In the tradition of Sadat Hasan Manto:   A man by the name of X hopped from one shelter  Read more…

Short Story

01-12-09

Lash Mark Silverman

   I met him in a dream.  It was a bar, and I sat staring into the long mirror as  Read more…

Book Review

01-12-09

“Stealing Nasreen” by Farzana Doctor Niranjana Iyer

 Stealing Nasreen by Farzana Doctor, Inanna Publications and Education Inc., May 2009,  230 pgs.   Every immigrant to the western  Read more…

Poetry

01-12-09

1984 Widow Colony Jaspreet Singh

          Hope- For them hope is a rubber tyre around their necks Someone will douse kerosene  Read more…

Poetry

01-12-09

Parallèles et palpitations… John Fretz

    Le fils de madame Locarno a écrit un roman. Mon dieux dite-elle,  à tous ceux qui l’interpellent Cette  Read more…

Poetry

01-12-09

Hero Lesley Pasquin

      The woodcutter’s daughter was not the one saved when       he split open the wolf. Hero to someone  Read more…

Poetry

01-12-09

The Poet Uday Khankhoje

    So poet, you think you’re a mystic? With oars of words and boats of paper you navigate the  Read more…

Poetry

01-12-09

Shelf Subir Das

    Given it starts me reading, Letters on a page open up with meaning, With someone else’s words who  Read more…

Poetry

01-12-09

The Great Foreskin Debate K. Gandhar Chakravarty

   Why do Jews have to be circumcised? Christ was a Jew before the Christians arrived, Yet Catholics tend to  Read more…

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