Silence
Qaqqasiq walks to the far end of the cemetery and looks for the empty space among the scattering of white crosses.
SPRING 2016 SVPPLEMENT
Introduction
Inheritances: An Introduction to The Ex-Puritan Spring 2016 Svpplement
“Negotiating with the past” and “dealing with the past” have become common phrases when talking about personal and cultural legacies.
Fiction
Bottlenecks
My father could never braid my hair.
Lily Metterling & Her Macho Idiots
Arriving early, I select a table by the window and fold my coat on the banquette.
Poetry
homecoming
Check out Doyali Islam's new poem in The Puritan's 2016 "Inheritances" Supplement | Learn more about one of Canada's best poetry writing contests.
Essays
Reading the Unwritten: Rethinking Transgender Narratives
Voids—black holes and the like—should be inspiring.
Psychogenealogy and Literature
New illustrations by Laura Kenins on Psychogenealogy and Literature in The Puritan’s Spring 2016 Supplement | Click for more info on our writing contest.
The White Hand: An Oral History
Uneasiness. Unsettlement. Which is pretty normal if you’ve just moved into a house, but the house had such a strong personality imposed on it just by the way it was decorated.
Interviews
“Truth Becomes Fiction When the Fiction’s True”: An Interview with Madeleine Thien and Denise Chong
[W]hen I think of inheritance, just on its own, it’s been the distinguishing feature of my life in that I inherited nothing because my parents’ generation was really poor.
Inheritance & Poetry Over French Fries: An Interview with Chad Campbell
I quickly start to write bad poetry if I don’t have some connection to the material, and as it turns out, there was enough in certain landscapes and animals and such to find poems.
