Montreal Review of Books: Spring 2008

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Twenty-fifth issue
Volume 11, No. 2

features

A Place For Everything
By Faustus Salvador

Empires And Dinner
By Neil Scotten

fiction

Blood Pudding
Reviewed by Dan Gillean

Dance Of The Suitors
Reviewed by Adriana Palanca

Days Of Sand
Reviewed by Anne Chudobiak

Nikolski
Reviewed by Saleema Nawaz

Return To Arcadia
Reviewed by Andrea Belcham

Seven Openings Of The Head
Reviewed by Robert Kotyk

The Cruellest Month
Reviewed by Elspeth Redmond

The Dells
Reviewed by Elspeth Redmond

The Postman's Round
Reviewed by Anne Chudobiak

The Violets Of Usambara
Reviewed by Danielle LaFrance

non-fiction

Bottomfeeder: How To Eat Ethically In A World Of Vanishing Seafood
Reviewed by Louise Fabiani

Fred Taylor: Brother In The Shadows
Reviewed by Mark Heffernan

Mordecai Richler: Leaving St. Urbain
Reviewed by Ian McGillis

The Sexual Paradox: Extreme Men, Gifted Women And The Real Gender Gap
Reviewed by David Ravensbergen

Thomas D'arcy Mcgee: Volume 1
Reviewed by Margaret Goldik

Travels In Wonderland
Reviewed by Linda Besner

non-fiction at a glance

A Guide To Contemporary Architecture In Montreal
Reviewed by Ian McGillis

Green Boughs And Singing Birds
Reviewed by Margaret Goldik

No Limits
Reviewed by Margaret Goldik

poetry

Dismantled Secrets
Reviewed by Dr. Bert Almon

Radius Of Light
Reviewed by Dr. Bert Almon

Sympathy For The Couriers
Reviewed by Dr. Bert Almon

The Freedom I Stole
Reviewed by Dr. Bert Almon

Winter Tennis
Reviewed by Aparna Sanyal

young readers

Break On Through
Reviewed by Annie Murray

Come On, Dad! 75 Things For Fathers And Sons To Do Together
Reviewed by Annie Murray

Come On, Mom! 75 Things For Mothers And Daughters To Do Together
Reviewed by By Annie Murray

Fakie
Reviewed by Annie Murray

I Don't Want To Go
Reviewed by Annie Murray

Pier 21: Stories From Near And Far
Reviewed by Annie Murray

Pink
Reviewed by Annie Murray

Please, Louise!
Reviewed by Annie Murray

Zibby Payne & The Party Problem
Reviewed by Annie Murray

The Literary Life

Linda Leith: From The Desert Lake To Blue Metropolis

By Faustus Salvador

New Document Ice pellets are raining down on Montreal the afternoon I arrive at Linda Leith's home in Notre-Dame-de-Gr�ce - a far c... READ MORE

Empires And Dinners

In Chef, Past And Present Meet In The Kitchen

By Neil Scotten

New Document In commending V.S. Naipaul's Nobel Prize-winning novel In A Free State in 2001, the Swedish Academy described the... READ MORE

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

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