Issue 101 (February 2018)

Contents:

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

• A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder by James De Mille; The Desert of the Heart
  by Jane Rule; What Is to Be Done? by Mavis Gallant; The Convict Lover: A True Story by Merilyn Simonds; Street of Riches by Gabrielle Roy, Trans. Henry Binsse

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

• Starting in on W.E.D. Ross
  by Brian Busby

POETRY

• Two Poems
  by Madhur Anand

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

• A Response to Max Beerbohm’s “Three Vices of Canadian Poetry”
  by Samuel Johnson

CNQ ABROAD

• The New Battle for the Falklands: The disputed archipelago reinvents itself
  by Kate Sherren

FEATURES

• Towards a History of Political Cartooning in Canada: A call to arms
  by Dominic Hardy
• Art Is Hell: Tony Calzetta and Gabrielle de Montmollin move to Welland
  by Ann Ireland
• Unc
  by Bruce Whiteman
• Montreal Poetry After Leonard Cohen
  by Derek Webster
• Hey Porter: How Canada’s Black sleeping-car porters became agents of social change
  by Cecil Foster

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

• Vol. 7: Peter Sellers
  by Jason Dickson

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

• Sheila Heti’s How Should a Person Be?
  by Dakota McFadzean

REREADING

• Partings, Welded Together Dickens’ “Great Expectations”
  by Colette Maitland
• Body of Work: An Almost Visible Trajectory
  The fiction of Russell Smith
  by Rebecca Rosenblum

FICTION

• “Where to Send the Dogs”
  by Penn Javdan

USED AND RARE

• You Are What You Read
  On building a personal library
  by David Mason

REVIEWS

• John Metcalf  on Nick Mount’s Arrival: The Story of CanLit
• Jesse Eckerlin on Oisín Curran’s Blood Fable
• JC Sutcliffe on Wajdi Mouawad’s Anima
• André Forget on Camilla Grudova’s The Doll’s Alphabet
• Domenica Martinello on Benjamin Hertwig’s Slow War and Canisia Lubrin’s Voodoo Hypothesis
• Alex Good on Michael Redhill’s Bellevue Square
• Emily Donaldson on David Chariandy’s Brother

EXHUMATIONS

• Earl Schneider’s Know Your Monkey
  by Stephen Fowler