Pat pat pat pat pat
I look around and everyone is obviously a lizard wearing human clothing.
Issue 40: Winter 2018
Fiction
We Can Make Something Grow Between the Mushrooms and the Snow
This highly-unusual dwelling will make the perfect home for the right occupants.
Trying To Get Over
1968: Talking Christie, or Nella-Gayl Hurston, is the undisputed ruler of Nanã’s
Poetry
TEPCO[1] Beach[2]
We crossed the highway and walked West, away from hunched Costco, toward the water.
Essays
Rupi Kaur, Apotheosis of Contemporary Poetry
What has everyone got against Rupi Kaur? T
Young Blood
To make blood marmalade, first you need a quart of new blood—if not from a willful donor, then a freshly guillotined neck.
Un vrai bête en amour
I woke up by chance just before he began to move convulsively and spin off the shoulder of the 401.
Interviews
The Many Reinventions of Atlantic Canadian Fiction: A Roundtable
It’s notoriously difficult and downright foolish to attempt to define the literature of an entire region, particularly a region with as much diversity and as rich a storytelling tradition as Atlantic Canada.
“What a stage can be”: In Conversation with Djanet Sears
“Meet you in Front and Long!”
Imaginary Versions Of The Real: An Interview with Kirsty Logan
Your second novel, The Gloaming, will be published in May 2018. I gather it is partly inspired by traditional Scottish tales of the sea, but with a contemporary twist—a lesbian mermaid love story.
Reviews
More than Survival: A Review of David Huebert’s Peninsula Sinking
At a cursory glance, David Huebert’s Peninsula Sinking may appear to be a thematically familiar rendition of traditional Canadian literature
Everything New Is Old Again: A Review of Guillaume Morissette’s The Original Face
“Post-internet art often employed a nostalgia-as-novelty approach,” explains Daniel Kerry, the narrator and protagonist of The Original Face, Guillaume Morissette’s follow-up to 2014’s celebrated New Tab.
Beauty in the Shadows, Shadows in Beauty: A Review of Sue Sinclair’s Heaven’s Thieves.
Sue Sinclair’s most recent collection, Heaven’s Thieves, picks up on themes explored in her earlier work, extending a now career-long philosophical meditation on various incarnations of beauty.
Becoming-Gods: Canisia Lubrin’s Army of Revolutionary Zombies
In “Zombies,” a song from Awaken, My Love! (2016), Childish Gambino sings about the struggle to survive in a post-apocalyptic landscape crawling with the undead.
