The 100th Issue (October 2017)

Contents:

WHAT’S OLD
Notable CanLit reissues and offerings from the country’s antiquarian booksellers

• A Song of the English by Rudyard Kipling; Tan Ming by Lan Stormont [pseud. Frank Morse Robb]; In Times Like These by Nellie McClung; Manual for Draft-Age Immigrants to Canada by Mark Satin; I Don’t Want to Know Anyone Too Well by Norman Levine

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

• On the Trail of Kenneth Orvis
  by Brian Busby

POETRY

• “Endings” by Pierre Nepveu

FIRST READING

• Exile and Coming: Scott Symons’ 1967 gay novel
  by Jonathan Valelly

FEATURES

• Surfacing
  CanLit’s explosive beginnings
  by  Nick Mount
• Alligators in Their Midst
  M&S in the Seventies
  by Anna Porter
• Hints and Allegations
  Selling “the Canadian publisher”
  by Elaine Dewar
• For All Its Faults
  Remembering the New Canadian Library
  by Brian Busby
• Journey to Orillia
  My quest for the Leacock Medal
  by Robert Wringham
• Abyssinian Maid
  How a stolen painting led to reckoning with a family legacy
  by Mary H. Auerbach Rykov
• A Very Fine Web
  Half a century of House of Anansi
  by James Polk
• Newsies
  George McCullagh’s rise and fall
  by Mark Bourrie
• Will Anybody Care?
  Archiving in the digital age
  by Mark Sampson

REREADING

• Canada’s Golden-Brown Age
  Shyam Selvadurai’s “Funny Boy”
  by Kamal Al-Solaylee

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

• Andre Alexis’ Fifteen Dogs by Patrick Kyle

THE ANTIQUARIUM
A series of interviews with Canada’s used-book sellers

• Vol. 6: Wilfrid de Freitas and Susan Ravdin by Jason Dickson

FICTION

• “Maxi” by David Huebert

USED & RARE

• Reflections at Fifty
  by David Mason

REVIEWS

• JC Sutcliffe on Virginia Pésémapéo Bordeleau’s Winter Child
• Mark Sampson on Lori McNulty’s Life on Mars
• Rohan Maitzen on Gillian Best’s The Last Wave
• André Forget on Marianne Apostolides’ Deep Salt Water
• Alex Good on Pasha Malla’s Fugue States
• Bruce Whiteman on Dennis Lee’s Heart Residence: Collected Poems 1967–2017

EXHUMATIONS

• Charles Addams’ Dear Dead Days
  by Stephen Fowler