Montreal Review of Books

We carry the baggage of our ancestors, in some form or another. But how much do we really know about what it contains? About which pieces were lost, discarded since they were packed – or about those that completed their journey to us? These are the musings of Susan Grundy’s latest novel, Black Creek, which follows 35-year-old Kate Stong Smythe, a Montreal-based archite...

Elsa (Za) is a sociology student and illustrator who creates images and short comics featuring odd creatures and subtly revealing portraits of everyday interactions.

I remember doing some writing for a nebulous fashion magazine in Montreal in the early 2000s – what seemed like a boom time, but was really the beginning of the end of the old media age. The publishers appeared to have more money than sense, but when it came time to get paid, they were notably evasive. Eventually an insider tipped me off that my best bet was to come to the of...