The new issue of The New Quarterly arrived yesterday and among its many pleasures — new work from Heather Birrell, Zsuzi Gartner, Caroline Adderson and James Pollock — was what may be one of the best essays on reviewing I’ve read in recent memory. Eric Ormsby’s ‘Fine Incisions: Reflections on Reviewing’ gets to the heart [...]
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CNQ 78
Daniel WellsCNQ 78 hits the printer today, and should be back in the next two to three weeks. A special issue partially guest-edited by David Hickey on the work of P.E.I. poet John Smith, the following is the Table of Contents:
NEVER MIND THE STREETS OF PARIS:
An Introduction to John Smith
David Hickey
SMITH: A SELECTIVE BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
David Helwig
MUTUAL [...]
New Content Added
Daniel WellsWe added new content to the website today. In fiction, Ray Smith’s Serenissima, a story we published in The Salon des Refuses issue. From his novel Century, it works as a short story as well. Kerry Clare has recently reviewed Century as part of her Canada Reads Independently series. To read her thoughts on this [...]
A Brief Word from our Sponsor…
Daniel WellsDear CNQ subscriber,
CNQ 78 is within a week of finding its way to the printer, and less than a month from finding its way to mailboxes across the country. At the moment I am aghast to report that yours is not one of them. So I thought it best to take a couple [...]
Nabokov, Trilling and Lolita
Daniel WellsThe Canadian connection? That this discussion happened on CBC television’s Close-Up in the 1950s. What a golden age for CBC television! Today the likes of the boorish Heather Hiscox would have spoken over Nabokov and Trilling, competing with them for the camera. She would have castigated Nabokov for writing smut.
But what am [...]
Rogue Stimulus
Daniel WellsComrade poet!
Since Parliament has been prorogued, you’re probably just sitting on your
hands, bereft. But things are looking up!
You are invited to submit a poem for consideration for a new anthology to be
published by Mansfield Press just in time for the reconvening of Parliament
on March 3.
The collection is titled Rogue Stimulus: The Stephen Harper Holiday
Anthology for [...]
Black & White Storylines
Daniel WellsIn the mail this morning, a catalogue from Ron Shuebrook of his show alongside Carol Wainio at the Dalhousie Art Gallery. Ron’s memoir of being a painter was published in Issue 76 of CNQ, and can be found here.
It’s a lovely little catalogue, complete with 10 pages of colour plates, divided between the artists. [...]
A Beaver by Any Other Name…
Daniel WellsThe Beaver, Canada’s magazine of Canadian History for ninety years, is undergoing a name change. The current issue of the magazine, on newsstands now, will be the last issue to bear the title: henceforth The Beaver will be known by the much more exiting moniker of — wait for it — Canada’s History. Expect their [...]
The Dusty Bookcase
Daniel WellsA blog I have been checking in on periodically for several months now, and need to check in on more regularly, is Brian Busby’s The Dusty Bookcase: A Very Casual Exploration of the Dominion’s Suppressed, Ignored and Forgotten. If it is a casual exploration, it remains an extremely committed and far reaching one. Busby is [...]
A Tale of Illusion, Delusion and Mystery
Daniel WellsPerhaps one of the most comment upon and loved of recent CNQ articles was Antiquarian Bookseller David Mason’s Selling Civilization, from issue 76. It has engendered a range of both official comments and unofficial emails and notes of praise. We are working here to put issue 78 to bed this week, which contains another fabulous [...]