Etiket: Critique
[Critique] “Pseudoscience Fiction”, Kristian North
The ex-leader of the punk-garage band Babysitter has never lacked musical ambition, nor self-mockery, entitling his first solo album The Last Rock’n’Roll Record (2018). The Montrealer returns with a third…
[Critique] “Something Easy”, Justin Rutledge
Sometimes, we think that Toronto is Timbuktu. Discover (or almost) Justin Rutledge on his tenth album (not counting the three from the group Early Winters, released at the same time).…
[Critique] “Francois Ricard. Literature as friendship”, L’Atelier du roman
Professor of literature at McGill from 1971 to 2010, a biting and lucid essayist (The lyrical generation, Agnes’ last afternoon, There literature despite everything), director for nearly 40 years of…
[Critique] “The invention of a face”, Mathieu Laca
“Each painter somehow represents a lover transfixed at the window of the world. This sums up well the posture of Antoine, the narrator of the remarkable first novel by Mathieu…
[Critique] “Standing in your absences”, Mélanie Noël
After two collections of poetry (The future departedself-published, 2018; Inseparable distances, Écrits des Forges, 2022), Mélanie Noël signs a more than promising first novel in which she deals with romantic…
[Critique] “Felis Silvestris”, Anouk Lejczyk
“And your sister, where is she, what does she do? / — Oh, my sister, she’s taking some fresh air. As she wanders from one place to another, far from…
[Critique] “Master Gardener”: a faded bouquet
In a vast property in the southern United States, lush gardens attest to jealous care. It is Narvel Roth, a reserved gardener, who maintains them on behalf of Norma Haverhill,…
[Critique] “The eight mountains”: a house in the middle of nowhere
Carried by the voice of adult Pietro (Luca Marinelli), The Eight Mountains recounts the long friendship between two solitary men from different backgrounds. In 1984, Pietro (Lupo Barbiero) and Bruno…
[Critique] “Building the Post-Capitalist Economy”: Socialism Saved by Feminist Lightning
“The broadest and most unlimited democracy”, demanded in 1917 by the militant Rosa Luxemburg within socialism, would remain the remedy for the inertia so widespread on the present international left.…
[Critique] “Fairy tale”: Stephen King in the land of Once upon a time
Once upon a time, there was a prolific writer capable of creating a character for you in a few lines, making you love him in a few paragraphs to the…
[Critique] Our selection of comics for the month of May
Work for his pain Drac Berthiaume’s journey is stunning, to say the least. He will have been a graphic designer, researcher, director, illustrator, even musician, before publishing, at the age…
[Critique] “To look without fear”: wandering the Tillmans universe
A central figure in contemporary art, winner of the Turner Prize in 2000, the German Wolfgang Tillmans has a profoundly queer way of thinking about photography, distribution included. No simple…
[Critique] On your screens: of body and mind
love for all They have multiple sclerosis, suffer from intellectual disability or quadriplegia and cerebral palsy. François, 54, Marie Lee, 30, and Elisanne, 30, also have affective, emotional and physical…
[Critique] “The Mother”: J. Lo as Mama Bear
In a supposedly safe place, a woman warns the FBI agents she has agreed to work with that the place is about to be attacked. What happens, not without the…
[Critique] “Mama”, Nathalie Doummar | The duty
With mom, Nathalie Doummar pays a vibrant tribute to her Egyptian roots, and more specifically to the sisters, mothers, daughters and cousins of the vast clan to which she belongs.…
[Critique] “Twelve Acres”, Marie-Hélène Sarrasin
It was primarily to honor the memory of her grandmother that Marine left the suburbs to settle in Saint-Didace, a small village that seemed to her at first glance “like…
[Critique] “Regard d’Annie Dillard”, Contre-jour
It is thanks to his Pilgrimage to Tinker Creek (Christian Bourgois, 1990, Pulitzer prize for essay in 1975) that several readers discovered Annie Dillard. A group of eleven authors gathered…
[Critique] “Do well and be happy. Selected pieces 1997-2022”, Stéphane Crête
Stéphane Crête recollects here about forty texts written between 1997 and 2022. In a controlled writing, he tackles several subjects without detour, does not get caught up in any flower…
[Critique] “Reading Club. The next chapter»: uninhibited old age
They have passed this expiration date which is (masculine pronoun?) said to hit women in their fifties. The expression “little lady” is behind them. Let’s not be afraid of the…
[Critique] John Storgårds conceals the OSM’s paper-making misery
Finnish conductor John Storgårds returned to the OSM with a program of rare intelligence and sensitivity, accompanying Charles Richard-Hamelin in a concerto in which the Quebec pianist was not expected.…