Canadian Notes & Queries

CNQ 105, the Fall Issue, is out! FEATURING Jeremiah Bartram on Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia; Deborah Dundas on dealing with our loved ones' remains; Michael Melgaard on why book thieves get away with their crimes; Rod Moody-Corbett on Saul Bellow's Canadianness; Edward O'Connor on a Banff textbook workshop gone awry; Brian Busby on Christie Redfern's Troubles; and Nathan Whitlock looks at Rachel Cusk's entire body of work. FICTION by Cary Fagan; POETRY by Candace De Taeye &... Yusuf Saadi. William Gibson's "Pattern Recognition" gets the graphic treatment from Ray Fawkes. PLUS reviews of books by Malcolm Murray; Sara Peters; Arielle Twist; Domenica Martinello; Sophie Bienvenu; Mona Awad; Susan Swan; and John Metcalf. Grab a copy from a fine bookstore near you, or better yet, SUBSCRIBE!

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"Scholars study his work with the same gravity you'd give the Bible." Lovely radio interview with Seth on CBC Radio's q this morning about his just-released 5-part magnum-opus picture novel CLYDE FANS, published with Drawn and Quarterly:

Camilla Grudova's wonderfully unsettling short story "Alice & Charles," from last year's Genre Issue, has been nominated for a National Magazine Award! Read it here:

CNQ 104 has dropped! FEATURING! Ian Coutts on James Moffatt's wildly popular 1970s skinhead novels; Cynthia Holz on the writing life; Michel Basilieres on Emile Nelligan's translators; Bruce Whiteman on Walt Whitman at 200; Pablo Strauss on the perils of translating kitchen slang; Brian Busby on Canada Reads' age problem; Marko Sijan on contemporary Belgrade; & Joshua Whitehead on Rudy Wiebe. POEMS by Ben Ladouceur & Souvankham Thammavongsa. SHORT FICTION by Cynthia Flood. An... INTERVIEW with mapseller Megan Webster. SETH gives a commencement address to the Center for Cartoon Studies & Marie-Claire Blais gets the NORTH WING graphic treatment from Fiona Smyth. REVIEWS of books by André Alexis, Brent Hayward, Ian Williams, Ariela Freedman, Erin Moure, Cassidy McFadzean, John Miller & Téa Mutonji. ARTWORK by Seth, Sybil Lamb, John Macaraeg & Craig Small. Grab a copy from your local bookseller, or better yet, SUBSCRIBE!