Number 110

CNQ Issue #110 (Fall 2021/Winter 2022)

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Contents

The Landscape

• by Seth

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

• Cree Bible Translated into the Language of the Kristeneaux, or Crees of North America by William Mason and Others | British and Foreign Bible Society, 1861-1862
• Regina Manifesto by the Co-Operative Commonwealth Federation | Service Printing Co., 1933
• Their Man in the White House by Tom Ardies | Brash Books
• Perilous Passage by Arthur Mayse | Véhicule
• The Essential Elizabeth Brewster selected by Ingrid Ruthing | Porcupine’s Quill

The Dusty Bookcase | A casual exploration of Canada’s suppressed, ignored, and forgotten literature

•  Weston to the World: Garnett Weston’s Poldrate Street by Brian Busby

Poetry

• “No Wave” by Stephanie Bolster
• “You Forgot How to Be Alone” by Shazia Hafiz Ramji

Features

• Whatever She Is, She Is not Nothing: Recuperating Rupi Kaur by Carl Watts
• Arrivals: How my mother’s journey became my own by Kornelia Drianovski
• The Steal: When buying an eco-mattress gets weird by Joe Bongiorno
• Telling the Story: Arthur Mayse and the writing of The Perilous Passage by Susan Mayse
• An Unlikely Story: Robbie Burns in love by Luke Hathaway
• Inside the Whale: A young bookseller comes of age in a Toronto megastore by Alex Boyd
• When East Meets West: How Canadian geography feeds Western alienation by J.R. Patterson
• Under a Maple Tree at Sunrise: Reading Indigenous writing, an Arab immigrant finds his place in Canada by Nofel
• My Book, My Self: On memoir and the construction of identity by Ronald L. Grimes
• Vision Quest: My initiation into Toronto’s psychedelic Church of Santo Daime by Drew Tapley
• The Missing Page: In contemporary Tanzania, David Livingstone’s surprising, uncomfortable legacy by Rob Taylor
• Love Poem: Shane Neilson’s New Brunswick by M Travis Lane
• Sift in an Hourglass: Remembering Ralph Gustafson by Bruce Whiteman
• Remembrance of Things Present: How we write ourselves by Aris Keshav

CNQ Abroad

• Death Near Venice: On the eve of lockdown, a hidden spritz bar by Mark Anthony Jarman

Interview

• Interview with Jocelyn Saucier by Megan Durnford

Used and Rare

• Archival Anecdotes III by  David Mason

The North Wing

• Claudia Day’s Heartbreaker by Cai Sepulis

Fiction

• “The Pit” by David Huebert

Reviews

• Tamas Dobozy’s Ghost Geographies by Alex Good
• Casey Plett’s A Dream of a Woman by Brett Josef Grubisic
• André Alexis’ Ring by André Forget
• Miriam Toews’ Fight Night by Rohan Maitzen
• Zoe Whittall’s The Spectacular by Dancy Mason
• Audreé Wilhelmy’s White Resin by Patricia Robertson
• Don McKay’s Lurch by Bruce Whiteman
• Wayne Johnston’s The Mystery of Right and Wrong by Kate Kennedy
• Susan Olding’s Big Reader: Essays by Jeff Miller
• Brett Josef Grubisic’s My Two-Faced Luck by Steacy Easton
• Judith McCormack’s The Singing Forest by Naben Ruthnum

Exhumations

• The ABC Universal Commercial Electric Telegraph Code by Stephen Fowler