Montreal Serai

By Day, By Night. Writings on Art. By Edmund Alleyn. Edited by Jennifer Alleyn and Gilles Lapointe. les editions du  Read more…

Anne Cimon’s new novella, A Room on the Mountain, (Gemma Books, Greenfield Park, Québec), is a story of grief, following  Read more…

I Canada – Deformed at home, diminished abroad Activist, journalist, and researcher Yves Engler has just produced an important handbook  Read more…

Take a pinch of Conrad, a soupçon of Chekhov, shake vigorously and you get Rushdie. Not quite, but their forenames  Read more…

The Artist as Mystic: Conversations with Yahia Lababidi, by Alex Stein, Onesuch Press, 2012. Conceived by Alex Stein, U.S. writer,  Read more…

As I run along my routine jogging trail from middle-class NDG in Montreal, up the hill into the Westmount maze  Read more…

  Susanna Moodie, pioneer author, Anne Cimon, XYZ Publishing, 2006. Of the many immigrant groups that streamed into Canada, none  Read more…

Rope, A Tale Told in Prose and Verse by Louise Carson.  Broken Rules Press, 2011, 53 pages   I first  Read more…

      Canadian literature is as rich as its native children such as Joseph Boyden, who, Through Black Spruce,  Read more…

IN THE WRITERS’ WORDS Conversations with Eight Canadian Poets, Laurence Hutchman, Guernica Press, Toronto-Buffalo-Lancaster (UK), 2011   The1950s in Canada  Read more…

The Art and Science of Healing Since Antiquity. By Daya Ram Varma, MD, PhD. www.Xlibris.com, 2011. *** Why should a  Read more…

An Introduction To Visual Culture, Nicholas Mirzoeff. Routledge, New York, 1999. Visual culture can be described as the mix of  Read more…

THE LOVE QUEEN OF MALABAR. Memoir of a Friendship with Kamala Das. Merrily Weisbord, McGill-Queen’s University Press, Montreal, 2010. In  Read more…

  Ilustrado. By Miguel Syjuco, Hamish Hamilton Canada, an imprint of Penguin Group, 308 pp.,  Toronto 2010. Miguel Syjuco (pronounced  Read more…

  Canada and Israel – Building Apartheid by Yves Engler, a co-publication of Fernwood Publishing and RED Publishing, ISBN: 9781552663554,  Publication Date:  Read more…

  I am a Japanese Writer. By Dany Laferrière. Translation by David Homel. Douglas & McIntyre, 2010.   I am  Read more…

  [First published in A. Rivista anarchica, anno 40, n.2 (352) aprile 2010, pp. 47-49, Milano, Italia. Translation  by Maya  Read more…

  From Rajahs and Yogis to Gandhi and Beyond. Images of India in International Films of the Twentieth Century, by  Read more…

Soul Mountain, by Gao Xingjian. Harper Perennial, 2001.  [NB: The reviewer has chosen to stay attuned to the Chinese style  Read more…

  Reading A Woman Among Warlords you may find yourself forgetting on occasion that this is, in fact, a work  Read more…

    PERFECT HOSTAGE. Aun San Suu Kyi, Burma and the Generals. By Justin Wintle.  Arrow, 2007. In Burma there  Read more…

  The Heart Does Break: Canadian Writers on Grief and Mourning, edited by George Bowering and Jean Baird, Random House  Read more…

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

Notations 21 by Theresa Sauer. Mark Batty Publisher 2009. Hardcover: 320 pages. Reproduced partial images are with permission of the  Read more…

 Yves Engler’s The Black Book of Canadian Foreign Policy   When long-time Liberal “busboy” and former “rat-packer” Don Boudria was  Read more…

[From the book The Men Who Killed Me: Rwandan Survivors of Sexual Violence, © 2009, by Anne-Marie de Brouwer &  Read more...

  Norman Bethune by Adrienne Clarkson Penguin Canada hardcover, 200 pp, 2009 At a conference on April 15, 2009 at  Read more…

               Vermeer, Rembrandt and the Golden Age of Dutch Art.  Masterpieces from the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. By Ruud Priem and  Read more…

  Kolkata Dreams K. Gandhar Chakravarty 8th House Publishing, Montreal Canada 2009, 75 pages “I wonder what it must be  Read more…

                Urban Iran Mark Batty Publisher www.markbattypublisher.com 130 pages, hard cover, $27.95 US/  Read more…