Number 109

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

• Thomas King’s “Dreadful Water” by Nathan Campagnaro

Fiction

• “All Our Auld Acquaintances Are Gone” by Caroline Adderson

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