The Literature Issue: What is disowned wreaks havoc

Film Review

With This Ring

Maya Khankhoje

...they were born in a country where female foeticide – and even infanticide – is endemic.

Essay

Where there is no poverty and oppression

Joyce Valbuena

Where there is no poverty and oppression – Where there is no prisoner of political dissent – There will be peace Editorial note: This article was first submitted in late 2016 when peace talks were still underway in the […]

Performance Art

From Tehuacán, Mexico, the cradle of corn, to Manila and the bittersweet sugarcane fields, sowing peace and harvesting justice: Solidarity in Performance Art

Inti Naxhiellii Barrios Hernandez, with Joyce Valbuena and Giuliana Fumagalli

The Filipino people are like a long-lost family that I did not know I had.

Book Review

A Propaganda System

Ashoke Dasgupta

"Canada has seldom been a benevolent international actor. "

Book Review

A Second Coming, Canadian Migration Fiction

Anne Cimon

A Second Coming, Canadian Migration FictionEdited by Donald F. Mulcahy, Guernica, 348 pages One of the best stories included in the twenty-four chosen by Thomas Mulcahy, editor of this intriguing anthology, has the chilling title, “Mephisto in the Land of […]

Prose

The Wound that Almost Healed

Uma Parameswaran

Getting into her white coat, she glanced at the list of people to whom she had given an appointment over the telephone during the weekend.

Poetry

Burning 1989

Louise Carson

After the storm, turned my back on my lover till he sighed and left.

Editorial

Thirty years of Montréal Serai

Nilambri Ghai

Thirty years ago, in November 1986, we launched our very first issue of Montréal Serai. While commemorating this important milestone, we are proud to announce that Serai’s contribution to the promotion of literary arts has been recognized through the Quebec Writers’ […]

Poetry

On Reading Manto and Munro

Nilambri Ghai

Two stories, one set in Canada, the other in India

Film Review

Articolo 4/Article 4: A short documentary film from Italy

Pietro Ferrua

Article 4 is an article of the Constitution of the post-WW II Italian Republic that deals with the right of every citizen (regardless of race, sex, gender or any other bias) to obtain a reasonably paid, decent job.

Interview

Reading the paintings on the wall

Claudia Itzkowich Schñadower

Mexican filmmakers Luis Ernesto Nava and Keisdo Shimabukuro have devoted the last ten years to understanding and documenting human migrations through Mexico.

Book Review

Settler Education

Klara du Plessis

Settler Education, is a historically informed book of poetry that roams through Canada’s past, focusing on the destabilizing impact of colonialism, particularly on the indigenous population of North America, but also on European settlers.

Short Story

Fourteen Days of God’s Speech

Tamara Nazywalskyj

And on the second day, God said: “When sadness falls upon thee, eat gluten and eat a lot of it.” That day she ate many pancakes.

Book Review

Belief by Mayank Bhatt

Veena Gokhale

Rafiq is a young, second-generation, Indo-Canadian Muslim being implicated in a plot to bomb public places in Toronto.

Essay

We’re Ready, My Lord: Thanking Leonard Cohen One Last Time

Marie Thérèse Blanc

Leonard Cohen was unaffectedly honest about his warts and failings and, far from wreaking havoc, his candour revealed a rare, gentle grace and elegance that defeated ego or pretence.

Book Review

A Clearing

Brian Campbell

In these difficult, divisive, often overwhelming times, all of us crave a clear, quiet space

Poetry

Durga

Astha Agarwal

The Hindu goddess Durga represents strength, motherhood and the victory of good over evil.

Film Review

On the Side of the Road

Ashoke Dasgupta

On the Side of the Road premiered on November 28, 2013 during an International Film Festival on “Nakba and Return.” It was the opening film at the fest, held in Tel Aviv — a radical break from the past.