The Genre Issue #102
(Summer 2018)
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Contents
What’s Old
Notable CanLit reissues and offerings from the country’s antiquarian booksellers
- Steele of the Royal Mounted by James Oliver Curwood; The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle; Two Solitudes by Hugh MacLennan; Jimmie Dale, Alias The Gray Seal by Michael Howard; The Black Donnellys by Thomas P. Kelley
THE DUSTY BOOKCASE
A casual exploration of Canada’s suppressed, ignored, and forgotten literature
- Mrs. Lowry’s West Coast Murder Mystery
by Brian Busby
MY FIRST MONSTER
- Andrew Pyper
- Sandra Kasturi
- David Nickle
- Gemma Files
- Michael Rowe
POETRY
FEATURES
- Deconstructing the Dragon: A kung-fu classic turns forty-five
by Rui Umezawa - Steeling Myself: Romance as a gateway to literature
by Deborah Dundas - Indige-Genre: Twenty-first century Aboriginal storytelling
by Drew Hayden Taylor - Highlights from My First Book Signing
by Chris Gilmore - Children Shouldn’t Watch Dead Things: How a horror film threw dirt on sixties’ counterculture
by James Grainger - Strange Embrace: CanLit’s post-realist moment
by André Forget
INTERVIEW
- An Interview with Liz Harmer
by Michael Prior
REREADING
- The Losers’ Club: Stephen King’s “It” as a work of empathy
by Robert J. Wiersema
THE NORTH WING
Selections from the Lost Library of CanLit graphic novels
- Margaret Atwood’s Oryx And Crake
by Jay Stephens
FICTION
- “Alice & Charles”
by Camilla Grudova
USED AND RARE
- A Genre Unto Itself: Sherlockians’ uniquely passionate devotion to their subject
by David Mason
REVIEWS
- Myra Bloom on Sheila Heti’s Motherhood
- Justin Donnait on Stephen Michell’s Only the Devil Is Here
- Patricia Robertson on Heidi Sopinka’s The Dictionary of Animal Languages
- JC Sutcliffe on Liz Harmer’s The Amateurs
- Alex Good on Maureen Medved’s Black Star
- Bruce Whiteman on Cameron Anstee’s Book of Annotations and Alice Major’s Welcome to the Anthropocene
EXHUMATIONS
Casualty Simulation
by Stephen Fowler