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Book Review

A Constellation of Different Stars: A Review of Peter Taylor’s Cities Within Us

Louise Carson

At 54 poems and less than 80 pages of text, you might be forgiven for assuming that Peter Taylor’s latest collection of poetry will be a fast read. You would be wrong.


Envisioning a sovereign confederation of Indigenous peoples

Maya Khankhoje

Long before “sustainable development” became fashionable, Indigenous philosophy always considered the impact of decisions on the next seven generations.


What Do We Mean When We Talk About Class in Canada?

Veena Gokhale

What are the impacts of belonging to a certain social class?


Mexico: Historic heartland of a radical social movement

Maya Khankhoje

The 1917 Bolshevik Revolution in Russia is touted as the first radical revolution of the 20th century by those who have forgotten that the Mexican Revolution of 1910 preceded it by seven years.


India Is Broken—But Not Beyond Repair

Maya Khankhoje

A critique of India's economic and ethical crises, urging engagement with its future amid upcoming elections


Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World, by Naomi Klein, Alfred A. Knopf, 2023

Delving into the Mirror World with Naomi Klein

Maya Khankhoje

Naomi Klein conceived the idea for this book when the public started confusing her with a feminist author turned right-wing conspiracy theorist.


A hard look at “woke”

A hard look at “woke”

Maya Khankhoje

Susan Neiman is director of the Einstein Forum and a member of both the American Philosophical Society and the Berlin-Brandenburg Akademie der Wissenschaften


A timely and gripping call for change

Veena Gokhale

The Myth of Normal expands the narrative beyond individual and family issues, delving into societal pathology and systemic analysis.


Her First Palestinian and Other Stories by Saeed Teebi: A Palestinian-Canadian Review

Zachary Jericho Couture

Saeed Teebi’s masterful collection of nine short stories delves right into the many nuances of the Palestinian community in Canada.


You Still Look the Same by Farzana Doctor

A Terrible Mistake

Louise Carson

In Farzana Doctor’s first poetry collection, each part contains a different exercise followed by a haiku response.


Sensorial connections

Maya Khankhoje

They say books are on their way out – and who reads anyway, especially poetry? They say humans will either be done in by wars or melted down by climate change, or be replaced by cyborgs. They say a lot […]


Les fantassins révolutionnaires de l’Inde

Sam Boskey

Montréal Serai m’a invité à commenter ce livre, non pas en tant que spécialiste de l’Inde, du maoïsme ou des Adivasis (peuples autochtones de l’Inde), mais plutôt en tant que membre intéressé du public. À la fin des années 1960, […]


India’s Revolutionary Foot Soldiers

Sam Boskey

Montréal Serai invited me to comment on this book, not as someone with any particular expertise on India, Maoism, or the Adivasi (Indigenous peoples in India), but as an interested member of the public. In the late 1960s, when I […]


Fear the Mirror

Maya Khankhoje

    I will say it outright: Fear the Mirror, Cora Siré’s newly minted collection of linked short stories, is the most emotionally satisfying book that I have read in a long time. The author takes readers through the aftermath […]


Navigating the Climate Crisis

Maya Khankhoje

    Ann Eriksson’s Urgent Message from a Hot Planet is a heartfelt plea for all of us to do our bit, however little, to save the planet from global warming. In fact, author Eriksson contends that the term “climate […]


A Parable: A Review of The Farm

Louise Carson

  I read Wendell Berry’s The Farm on a rainy afternoon in late July. It took me fifteen minutes, and I enjoyed it. Then I began to think back to the first time I heard about and read other work […]


El Tamalito

Maya Khankhoje

    Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda wrote a passionate ode to the humble onion, acknowledging its importance as a staple food both for poor and rich. Marie Antoinette showed up her (wilful?) ignorance when she urged her subjects to eat […]


“Music is drawing with sounds”

Kerry McElroy

The reunion of Sarah and Cohen as pupil and teacher at the age of 59 and 80, respectively, forms the heart of the memoir.


Contes du coup d’État au Chili 

Hugh Hazelton

Leandro Urbina est un des plus grands écrivains chiliens de notre époque. Et voilà que Julie Turcotte, une jeune traductrice montréalaise, pour sa première traduction de l’espagnol (Chili) vers le français, a choisi le premier livre de l’auteur, Mauvaises fréquentations (Las malas juntas).


Fire and Water at Once: Honduran Dissident Poetry

Maya Khankhoje

This compilation of poems and short prose pieces by marginalized Honduran writers reflects the diversity of intent and life experience of the authors themselves.


La réplique: Clarke fires back

Brian Campbell

The affair quickly blew up into a media-and social media- driven frenzy, triggering resignations, condemnation, a petition and calls for boycott.


The Skin Below the Mask

Rana Bose

  Easily Fooled, by H. Nigel Thomas Guernica Editions, 2021, 293 pages   It does not matter how sharp and on top of things we are, we have been duped and hoodwinked too easily at some point in our lives […]


The Life and Times of Berthe Morisot

Veena Gokhale

One Madder Woman, a novel by Dede Crane Freehand Books, 2020, 360 pages   The year is 1858, the place, a Parisian suburb. A family of five is having breakfast. There is Papa, M. Morisot, the patriarch, a chief advisor […]


Delicate Mosaic

Hugh Hazelton

Dubois’ visual work has interesting parallels to her writing


Approaching the Final Season

Brian Campbell

indeed, her keen sense of mortality heightens an anxiety-edged but ecstatic awareness that this is it


When the Light of the World Was Subdued: Review and Commentary

Maya Khankhoje

It is a celebration of the oral and spiritual traditions of the first poets of what today is known as the United States of America


Shattered Fossils

Jane Affleck

Lax’s stories further the journey of questioning pre-pandemic “normalcy.”


Who Belongs in Quebec?

Veena Gokhale

“Quebec is a society full of inconsistencies."


Revolutions of the Heart

Nilambri Ghai

a moving collage of essays, conversations, aphorisms, poems, interviews and reflections


Plague Days: Poetics in the time of COVID-19

Louise Carson

experimental poetry communicates changing times while remaining timeless


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