And Without Further Ado, Issue 42: Summer 2018!

Dear Readers, The air is heavy enough to see, and you can't get the mail without breaking a sweat, so why not find an air conditioned room and read through Issue 42: Summer 2018 of The Puritan? For this issue, we were pleased to have Eduardo C. Corral and Naben Ruthnum as guest editors, selecting poetry and fiction respectively. Together, they have brought together a truly stunning array of pieces from across Canada, the United States, and beyond. Naben's fiction catch includes new work from Evelyn Deshane, Jen Neale, Sofia Mostaghimi, Emmet Matheson, and Julie Cameron Gray, while Eduardo's poetry round-up features a wide array of emerging and established poets, including Souvankham Thammavongsa, Sachiko Murakami, Shaun Robinson, Rebecca Salazar, Aaron Boothby, Sanna Wani, Aeon Ginsberg, Anna Geisler, Silvia Bonila, Joy Priest, Jan-Henry Gray, Katie Fewster-Yan, Jeff Whitney, Rena J. Mosteirin, Patrick Kindig, and Rob Winger. We have been extremely grateful for their thoughtful editorial contributions, and hope that you will enjoy them as much as we have. Meanwhile, in this issue's essay section things get political: our featured essayist, Kate Siklosi, does some digging into the circumstances surrounding Canadian poet M. NourbeSe Philip's erasure from the canon, and Irfan Ali charts the personal and professional difficulties of writing poetry as a Muslim in Canada. Amir Khadem rounds out the section with an insightful look into the roots of the Alt-Right's obsession with the concept of "White Afghanistan." Our summer interviews highlight the cross-fertilizations between literature and music, both in Canada and abroad. Paul Barrett talks to Mark V. Campbell about Canadian hip-hop, Nehal El-Hadi interviews Alexander G. Weheliye about R&B, and Puritan contributor David Ishaya Osu talks poetry with the Nigerian writers Emman Usman Shehu, Jumoke Verissimo, and Adeeko Ibukun. This issue's reviews feature Justina Elias on Miriam Toews' Women Talking, J.R. McConvey on Dimitri Nasrallah's The Bleeds, and Evangeline Holtz on Sarah Selecky's Radiant Shimmering Light.  As the season winds to a close and we all prepare for the rigours of autumn, we hope you'll take some time to enjoy these strong new stories, poems, essays, interviews, and reviews. And don't forget that you've still got a month to submit to our poetry and short fiction contest! Kind regards, The Editors