An interview with Roxann Karonhiarokwas Whitebean [Editorial note: Montréal Serai editor Jody Freeman interviewed Roxann Karonhiarokwas Whitebean in mid-May 2021, before the heart-rending discoveries of the unmarked graves of 1,148 children on the sites of former Indian residential schools.] Jody: […]
I come from a thousand light-years beyond the dark twilight of Earth, a planet today corroded by ambition and destroyed by so many shambles and fights over territorial and ethnic powers and other foolishness of the human species. […]
Artist’s Statement All through my training in sketching and painting, I was inspired by Bargue and Gérôme’s Cours de dessin to reproduce what I saw in real life and the natural world. Included below is one of my sketches […]
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).
After we learned to live with the plague, we learned to survive without the city’s darkness, thanks to the curfew. It is clear what we have lost in this pandemic: lives, loved ones, health, jobs, businesses, fearlessness, spontaneity, the […]
This compilation of poems and short prose pieces by marginalized Honduran writers reflects the diversity of intent and life experience of the authors themselves.
Introductory note: The term “conflict” play is occasionally used as a form of shorthand to describe the nature of the plays depicting the Israeli occupation of Palestine. The Palestinian community at large rejects the description of their reality as a […]
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 […]
Los Nombres de Las Flores (2019) Director: Bahman Tavoosi (79 minutes) Genre: Fiction Language: Spanish Greenground Productions Amid the majestic terrain of Bolivia, a poetically sublime film unfolds. The Names of the Flowers / Los Nombres de […]
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 […]
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