CNQ Issue #109: The Crime Issue (Spring/Summer 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 Executioners by Brian Moore | Harlequin Books, 1951
- French for Murder by Bernard Mara | Fawcett Publications
- Hunter with Harpoon by Markoosie Patsauq | McGill-Queen’s University Press
- When He Was Free and Young and He Used to Wear Silks by Austin Clarke | House of Anansi
- Dirty Words: Selected Poems, 1997-2016 by Carmine Starnino | Gaspereau Press
Editorial
- Guest Editor’s Note by Brian Busby
The Dusty Bookcase | A casual exploration of Canada’s suppressed, ignored, and forgotten literature
- Beat The Rich: Grant Allen’s An African Millionaire by Brian Busby
Poetry
- “We Provide a Timely Review” by Adam Sol
- “seven free spirits” by Manahil Bandukwala
Features
- Sin City: Montreal’s late, great mid-century journal of vice by Will Straw
- A Requiem for Skid Row: Toronto’s roughest neighbourhoods live on, but mainly in its fiction by Amy Lavender Harris
- Fringe Elements: A crime writer encounters his subjects by Trevor Ferguson
- Uncle Ken, We Hardly Knew Ye: Kenneth Orvis’ nephew surveys the writer’s life, hustles, and mysterious disappearance by Chris Barry
- Vale of Fears: Women in the crime novels of Phyllis Brett Young by Monika Bartyzel
- Shut Out: How university libraries are increasingly limiting public access by Jennifer Hambleton
- Revolutionarily Yours: Jack London’s epistolary relationship with Canadian socialist agitator Wilfrid Gribble by David Frank
The Cinema
- Vice Versa: Why 1986’s “Blue City” remains one of the best worst movies ever made by Chris Kelly
Interview
- Interview with Danny McAuley by Brian Busby
Used and Rare
- The List by David Mason
The North Wing
Fiction
Reviews
- Erin McLaren’s Little Resilience: The Ryerson Poetry Chap-Books by Bruce Whiteman
- Anna Porter’s The Appraisal and Deceptions by Rohan Maitzen
- Amanda LeDuc’s The Centaur’s Wife by Laura Cameron
- Michael Melgaard’s Pallbearing by Brett Josef Grubisic
- Pasha Malla’s Kill the Mall by Alex Good
- Carrie Jenkins’ Victoria Sees It by Paige Cooper
- Patricia Robertson’s Hour of the Crab by Dancy Mason
- Andrée A Michaud’s Mirror Lake by James Grainger
- Sarah Berman’s Don’t Call it a Cult: The Shocking Story of Keith Raniere and the Women of NXIVM by Emily Donaldson
Shelf Talkers
- The Bookshelf, Guelph
Exhumations
- Writing Thrillers for Profit: A Practical Guide by Stephen Fowler