ISSUE 32: WINTER 2016
Fiction
Strike Anywhere
Vaughn sat down with a calendar to try to figure out when it had started—the exact first day that he hadn’t left the house.
Poetry
New Brunswick: A Timeline Legend
1534: We never knew what we wanted to be.
Essays
What Silence Doesn’t Say
In a creative nonfiction workshop I recently facilitated, the piece up for discussion was a personal essay about the culture of silence that the writer’s religious background fostered.
Sarajevo Roses
It is unnerving, being on a bus for so long, but also calming.
Interviews
At the Centre of Something Very Big: An Interview with Rosemary Sullivan
The rule they gave me was this: anything you want to do, you can do.
“Glammed Out, Googley-Eyed and Gangsta”: Excerpts from a Conversation with Adeena Karasick
I’m interested in how various lexicons and dialects brush up against each other in celebration of all that is opaque and resistant to easy reading.
Reviews
“The Wisest Among Us Never Speak a Single Word”: The Perils of Language in Sigal Samuel’s The Mystics of Mile End
Sigal Samuel’s playful yet poignant literary endeavour, The Mystics of Mile End, explores many topics, including religion, family, grief, and identity.
“Making Music of Life”: A Review of Anna Yin’s Seven Nights with the Chinese Zodiac
I do not know Anna Yin, but I have heard her read her work twice: first at High Park in the summer of 2015, and second at Diaspora Dialogue’s Markham roadshow in the autumn of the same year.
Forty Winks: A Review of Sleep by Nino Ricci, Bright Eyed: Insomnia and Its Cultures by R.M. Vaughan, and Assembling the Morrow: A Poetics of Sleep by Sandra Huber
A curious thing happens when you read three books about the (dys)functions of sleep in a row. Can you guess what it might be?
How droll the world is!: A Review of Patrick deWitt’s Undermajordomo Minor
Lucy Minor is, from the start, aware that life is something to be played at.
