Number 92 (Spring 2015)

Contents:

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

• The Land of Afternoon: A Satire by Gilbert Knox
  by Brian Busby

POETRY

• Pain Face by Shane Neilson
• 5 (Prelude to the Overpoet) by Marc di Saverio

FEATURES

• Writing the Necessary by Patricia Robertson
• Intermittent Immortality by Jennifer A. Franssen
• How to Learn to Read by Rebecca Rosenblum
• Jimmy the Romanian Cross-Dresser by Stephen Henighan
• The Language of Play by Kaspar Hartman
• Shackled to a Corpse:
  The Long, Long Shadow of CanLit
  by Alex Good
• This Charming Man by Shane Neilson

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

• Stephen Leacock’s Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
  by Nick Maandag

FICTION

• Raccoons by Russell Smith

USED AND RARE

• Secrets of the Book Trade:
  The Rag-and-Bone Pickers
  by David Mason
• Misadventures in the Book Trade
  by Michael Darling

REVIEWS

• Laura Bast on Sue Goyette’s Ocean
• Michel Basilières on Nancy Huston’s Black Dance
• Nicholas Zacharewicz on David Cronenberg’s Consumed
• Mark Sampson on Michael Crummey’s Sweetland
• Melanie Janisse on Thomas King’s The Back of the Turtle
• Kerry Clare on Mireille Silcoff’s Chez L’arabe
• JC Sutcliffe on Mitiarjuq Nappaaluk’s Sanaaq and Naomi Fontaine’s Kuessipan

CNQ TIMELINE

• On 1970 by John McFetridge

CNQ COLLECTIBLE

• Lydia Kwa’s Ugly Daikon by Darryl Joel Berger