The 50th Anniversary Issue (#103, Fall 2018)

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Contents

What’s Old Notable CanLit reissues and offerings from the country’s antiquarian booksellers

• Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro; Edge ed. Henry Beissel;  These Festive Nights by Marie-Claire Blais; Mother Love by L.R. Wright; Nights on Prose Mountain by bpNichol

THE DUSTY BOOKCASE A casual exploration of Canada’s suppressed, ignored, and forgotten literature

• Adrienne Clarkson’s Summer Romance by Brian Busby

POETRY

• “Inventory” by Kayla Czaga 
• “Moving” by Doyali Islam

FEATURES

• Reading Beyond the Beard: Robertson Davies’ Fifth Business by Randy Boyagoda
• Hagar the Relatable: Margaret Laurence’s The Stone Angel by Tasneem Jamal
• Period Pieces: Brian Moore’s and Marian Engel’s 1968 feminist novels by Emily Donaldson
• New Myths, Old Ideas: Irving Layton’s The Shattered Plinths is still awful by Andreae Callanan
• 1967 and All That: Looking back at Pierre Berton’s looking back by Alex Good
• “The Only News That Isn’t Boring Is the Truth”: Leonard Cohen’s poetry, then and now by Bruce Whiteman
• Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman: Marie-Claire Blais’ The Manuscripts of Pauline Archange by André Forget
• Dark Imaginings: Harold Sonny Ladoo’s No Pain Like This Body by Rabindranath Maharaj
• Solidarity for Never: Pierre Vallières’ oxymoronic manifesto by Rachel Décoste
• My Stallion, Myself: Robert Kroetsch’s 1969 cowboy novel by Anthony Easton
• The Signs of Invasion: Alice Munro’s Images by John Metcalf
• Chronic Realities in the Wasteland: Sheila Watson’s The Double Hook by Paige Cooper
• Sowing SEED: In late sixties’ Toronto, an educational experiment takes root
• Mary H. Auerbach Rykov We Shall Come Over Mark Satin’s Vietnam-era draft-dodgers’ manual by Benjamin Hertwig
• Flora and Fauna Margaret Atwood’s and Pat Lowther’s lucidly complex late-sixties poetry by Anita Lahey

REREADING

• Cardinal Virtue: Harold Cardinal’s The Unjust Society was a blueprint for hope by Tracey Lindberg

THE NORTH WING
Selections from the Lost Library of CanLit graphic novels

• Michael Ondaatje’s The Collected Works of Billy the Kid by Scott Chantler 

FICTION

• “Near Hickory” by Martha Wilson 

USED AND RARE

• From Rag to (Literary) Riches: 50 Years of CNQ by David Mason

REVIEWS

• Sharon Bala’s The Boat People by Stephen Henighan
• Gregory Betts & Christian Bok’s Avant Canada: Poets, Prophets, Revolutionaries by Derek Webster
• Dominique Bernier-Cormier’s Correspondent and Deanna Young’s Reunion by Domenica Martinello
• Jennifer Ilse Black’s  Small Predators by Patricia Robertson
• Alex Boyd’s Army of the Brave and Accidental by Alex Good
• Lauren B. Davis’ The Grimoire of Kensington Market by Jesse Eckerlin
• Paige Cooper’s Zolitude and H B Hogan’s This Keeps Happening by Steven Beattie
• Martine Delvaux’s White Out  and Éric Plamondon’s Mayonnaise by JC Sutcliffe
• Patrick deWitt’s French Exit by Mark Sampson
• Allan Downey’s The Creator’s Game by Monique Giroux
• Gwynne Dyer’s Growing Pains: The Future of Democracy (and Work) by Alex Good
• Esi Edugyan’s Washington Black by Paul Barrett
• Rawi Hage’s The Beirut Hellfire Society by Michel Basilieres
• Dominic Hardy, Annie Gérin, & Lora Senechal Carney’s Sketches from an Unquiet Country: Canadian Graphic Satire, 1840–1940 by Alison Gillmor
• Helen Humphreys’ Machine Without Horses by Rohan Maitzen
• Douglas Hunter’s Beardmore by Vit Wagner
• Amanda Jernigan’s Years, Months, Days, Sarah Tolmie’s The Art of Dying, and Tess Liem’s Obits by Dancy Mason
• Adrian Michael Kelly’s The Ambassador of What by Jared Young
• K.D. Miller’s  Late Breaking by Trevor Corkum
• Nathan Ripley’s Find You in the Dark, Craig Davidson’s The Saturday Night Ghost Club, Timothy Taylor’s The Rule of Stephens, and Sharon Butala’s  Zara’s Dead by James Grainger
• Waubgeshig Rice’s Moon of the Crusted Snow by Dilia Narduzzi
• Merilyn Simonds’ Refuge byJeff Bursey
• Miriam Toews’ Women Talking by Rudrapriya Rathore
• Ian Weir’s The Life and Death of Strother Purcell by Brett Joseph Grubisic
• Joshua Whitehead’s Jonny Appleseed by Jeremiah Bartram

EXHUMATIONS

Northern Cookbook by Stephen Fowler