André Alexis interviewed
by Brad de Roo
Based on a reading of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island, André Alexis’ new novel, The Hidden Keys (Coach House Books), is the…
How The West Was Sung: Corb Lund’s Alberta
by Anthony Easton
I don’t know what to do with Corb Lund. If Ian Tyson weren’t alive, then he might be the only…
Three Poems
by Nyla Matuk
A hard mauve cigarette case, Fabergé,
now leans against the back of a display
at the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
No. 10
by Tamas Dobozy
The first bad Remembrance Day was 1984, the year Frank turned seventeen and his mother, Juliska, passed away. The old…
Leonard Cohen’s The Favourite Game
by Jason Kieffer
—From CNQ 96 (Summer 2016)
The View From Shore: A Writer in Mid-Career Takes Stock
by Charles Foran
EARLY in 2006 I signed a contract with Knopf Canada to write a biography of Mordecai Richler. The advance was in…
Malcolm Sutton’s Job Shadowing and Jacob Wren’s Rich and Poor
by Alex Good
Of course the spirit of the age has to be present in any work of art. No author writes in a vacuum. The most dramatic current events are absorbed into a state of mind and turned into stories that address how they affect us.
Tour de Force Reawakens
by Brian Busby
Trivial Pursuit almost seems an answer to a trivia question today, but in 1982 it enjoyed a magical Christmas as…