Montreal Review of Books: Fall 2011

AELAQ

Current Issue

Archives

How to get mRb

Thirty-sixth Issue
Volume 15, No. 1

features

Outside The Box: The Life And Legacy Of Writer Mona Gould. The Grandmother I Thought I Knew
By Anne Lagacé Dowson

Stopping For Strangers
By Joel Yanofsky

The O'briens
By Marianne Ackerman

Winter
By Ian McGillis

fiction

Dirty Feet
Reviewed by Rosel Kim

River City
Reviewed by Rob Sherren

Tell It To The Trees
Reviewed by Elise Moser

The Lamppost Diary
Reviewed by Gina Roitman

The Tattoo
Reviewed by Kim Bourgeois

Wherever Grace Is Needed
Reviewed by Taylor Tower

non-fiction

Fools Rule: Inside The Failed Politics Of Climate Change
Reviewed by Sarah Fletcher

Georges And Pauline Vanier: Portrait Of A Couple
Reviewed by Leila Marshy

Just One Suitcase?!
Reviewed by Dane Lanken

Reading The 21st Century: Books Of The Decade, 2000–2009
Reviewed by Eric Boodman

Rogue In Power: Why Stephen Harper Is Remaking Canada By Stealth
Reviewed by Jean Coléno

non-fiction at a glance

Minority Report: An Alternative History Of English-language Arts In Quebec
Reviewed by Mélanie Grondin

poetry

A Complete Encyclopedia Of Different Types Of People
Reviewed by Bert Almon

All This Could Be Yours
Reviewed by Bert Almon

Hypotheticals
Reviewed by Bert Almon

No End In Strangeness
Reviewed by Bert Almon

Skullduggery
Reviewed by Bert Almon

Some Frames
Reviewed by Bert Almon

The Id Kid
Reviewed by Bert Almon

the mile end café

With A Closed Fist: Growing Up In Canada's Toughest Neighbourhood
Reviewed by Anna Leventhal

young readers

All Good Children
Reviewed by B.A. Markus

Ella May And The Wishing Stone
Reviewed by B.A. Markus

My Name Is Elizabeth
Reviewed by B.A. Markus

Nini
Reviewed by B.A. Markus

The Adventures Of Cosmo The Dodo Bird
Reviewed by B.A. Markus

Winter: Five Windows On The Season

Sometimes You can Go Home Again

By Ian McGillis

New Document Adam Gopnik has been reliably surprising us for so long now that there might be a danger of taking him for granted. Step... READ MORE

Outside The Box: The Life And Legacy Of Writer Mona Gould. The Grandmother I Thought I Knew

The Golden Girl

By Anne Lagacé Dowson

New Document Writer Maria Meindl inherited thirty-eight boxes of papers from her grandmother Mona Gould. Mona was a big name at one t... READ MORE

The O'briens

Talking 'bout My Generations

By Marianne Ackerman

New Document One of the downsides of being a lifelong reader is that one rarely approaches a book innocently, free from the spoiler e... READ MORE

Stopping For Strangers

Doing More With Less

By Joel Yanofsky

New Document As a rule, Daniel Griffin avoids using exclamation points. The economical, unadorned prose that is the distinguishing fe... READ MORE

With A Closed Fist: Growing Up In Canada's Toughest Neighbourhood

Back To The Point

By Anna Leventhal

New Document A current Montreal real estate website describes Point St. Charles as an up-and-coming neighbourhood, a good bet for pot... READ MORE

We wish to thank the Canada Council for the Arts, the Department of Canadian Heritage and SODEC for their generous support, without which this publication would not exist.

Montreal Review of Books
is published by the
Association of English-language Publishers of Quebec (AELAQ) on 100% FSC-certified ENVIRO 100 paper.

Circulation 50,000

Lara de Beaupré Publisher
Mélanie Grondin Editor
Vanessa Bonneau Associate Editor
David LeBlanc Designer
Michael Wile Advertising National
Thanks to Julia Kater for proofreading assistance.

Opinions expressed in the Montreal Review of Books do not necessarily reflect the views of the editors or the AELAQ.