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
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
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