Number 108

CNQ Issue #108 (Fall Winter 2020/2021)

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Contents

 

The Landscape

• by Seth

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

• The Young Gordons in Canada by Mary Bourchier Sanford | Religious Tract Society
• Babylon by Grant Allen | Chatto & Windus, 1887
• Swallowed (L’Avalée des avalés) by Reejean Ducharme, trans. Madeleine Stratford | Véhicule Press
• The Shoe Boy by Duncan McCue | University of British Columbia Press
• Gentleman Death/Perpetual Motion by Graeme Gibson | McClelland & Stewart

Editorial

• Publisher’s Note by Dan Wells

The Dusty Bookcase | A casual exploration of Canada’s suppressed, ignored, and forgotten literature

• Oleaginous Adventures: Edmund C Cosgrove’s The Terror of the Tar Sands by Brian Busby

Poetry

• “Interior with Plastic Slippers and Broken Straps” by Phoebe Wang
• “Peeling Potatoes in a Dreamscape” by Allison LaSorda

Features

• Hunger Artist: The houses that Percy Janes built by Rod Moody-Corbett
• Following The Lines: How I wrote a novel about abstract painter Agnes Martin by Sally Cooper
• Don’t Cast Your Purls Before Swine: The subversive power of women’s domestic art by Mikka Jacobsen
• CanLit Soviet So Be It: The Woke White Male critic takes on the late Alden Nowlan and finds him…unwoke by Shane Neilson
• The Meaning of Poor: Poverty isn’t just an economic category, its also an insidious means of exclusion by River Kozhar

Rereading

• Say My Name: The alchemical magic of “Rumpelstiltskin” by Souvankham Thammavongsa

Body of Work

• This One Goes to Eleven: The fictional world of André Alexis by Nick Mount

First Reading

• Thoughts from a Feather-Throated Reader: Ivan Coyote and Rae Spoon’s “Gender Failure” by Juliane Okot Bitek

Memoir

• Halfway Up Parnassus: Failure can be a learning experience; it can also be an indicator of one’s limits by Bruce Whiteman

Interview

• Interview with Clifford Jackman by Jeremy Luke Hill

Used and Rare

• Ovo-Prelapsarian by David Mason

The North Wing

• Nalo Hopkinson’s “Brown Girl in the Ring” by Ho Che Anderson

Fiction

• “As Far as the Eye Could See” by Pauline Holdstock
• “Elvis from Orkney” by Shaena Lambert

CNQ Abroad

• Beautiful Ruin: In Cuba, birds, books, and big black Mercedes by Richard Sanger

Reviews

• Madhur Anand’s This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart: A Memoir in Halves by Andreae Callanan
• Justin Ling’s Missing from the Village and Silver Donald Cameron’s Blood in the Water by Alex Good
• Nadine Bismuth’s A Family Affair by Brett Josef Grubisic
• Alex Pugsley’s Aubrey McKee by Steven W Beattie
• Réjean Ducharme’s Swallowed by Michel Basilières
• Catherine Hernandez’s Crosshairs by Steacy Easton
• Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies by Laura Cameron
• Lisa Robertson’s The Baudelaire Fractal by André Forget
• Ian Young’s London Skin and Bones: The Finsbury Park Stories by John Metcalf
• David Bergen’s Here the Dark by James Grainger
• Morgan Murray’s Dirty Birds by Tom Halford
• Annabel Lyon’s Consent by Rudrapriya Rathore
• Clifford Jackman’s The Braver Thing by Dancy Mason
• Saleema Nawaz’s Song for the End of the World by Mark Sampson
• Katłıà’s Land-Water-Sky / Ndè-Tı-Yat’a by Patricia Robertson
• Margaret Atwood’s Dearly by Bruce Whiteman

Exhumations

• Dreams about H M The Queen and Other Members of the Royal Family by Stephen Fowler