Issue 48: Winter 2020
Fiction
Everything Must Go
In the summer of my 17th year, I took a trip, for the first and only time in my life, to the town where my mother was born.
Poetry
Essays
The Kidney is Exhibit A
If you look at a diagram of a kidney, it looks like a meal. Set on a plate, it is the cross-section of a delicacy, the meat finely marbled.
Captive
West Edmonton Mall is no longer the largest mall in the world, but it’s hard to imagine anything more lofty or oppressive.
Interviews
Going Beyond the AODA: Accessibility in Arts & Culture
I was hopeful. The café was on a list of accessible coffee shops in Toronto.
Reviews
The Nature of Personal Desire and Millennial Loneliness in Jess Taylor’s Just Pervs
What makes a certain kind of desire perverse, and who has the right to decide it is? Jess Taylor’s Just Pervs—a collection of 15 stories published by Book*hug in September 2019—comes at this question from various angles in a bid to reclaim “perv” as a term of endearment for those who dare to desire outside the norm.
Review of Carmen Maria Machado’s In the Dream House
Carmen Maria Machado’s In the Dream House consists of 146 chapters, split across five sections. The shortest is eight words long. The longest, at least in terms of page count, is 15 pages; this one is also my favourite.
The Courage to Not Disappear: Lisa Robertson’s The Baudelaire Fractal
“First, I knew nothing, then I believed anything, now I doubt everything.”—Lisa Robertson, The Baudelaire Fractal.
