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Revolution Central

Ahdaf Soueif at the Blue Met: review and podcast

by Martyn Bryant
22.04.2012

15-20 years ago, Egyptian journalist and novelist Ahdaf Soueif collected a third of an advance on a book that she didn’t write. She was asked to write about Cairo, the place of her birth and where she grew up and studied, but couldn’t bring herself to write an elegy for a city she saw as having long ago passed its prime.

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Face to Face

Esi Edugyan at the Blue Met: review and podcast

by Martyn Bryant
21.04.2012

In the introductory lines of Half-Blood Blues (reviewed by The Rover last year) Sid gives us a sense of Chip, “He got this booming voice, and when he talked it overwhelmed the air, shoved it aside like oil in a cup of water.”

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Rover Art Talks

Listening to guest artists at the Rover Art Fair, December 2011

by Marc Seltzer
10.02.2012

The December 2011 Rover Art Talks produced three distinct conversations that highlighted the diversity of art experiences and art production in Montreal — and beyond. Art writer Isa Toussignant and a live audience engage with photographer Linda Ruttenberg, artist Jane Stewart and painters Fiona Ackerman and Luc Paradis in articulate conversation about their experiences and ideas.

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