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Canadian Notes & Queries Canada's oldest magazine of literary criticism. Books, culture, a Canadian perspective, a backward gl CNQ is published thrice yearly.

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Canadian Notes & Queries was first published in 1968 by William Morley as a four-page supplement to the Abacus, the newsletter of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of Canada. Modelled on the long-running British scholarly journal Notes & Queries, it was a journal, Morley wrote, “of little discoveries encountered, often by serendipity, in the course of scholarly investigati

on,” and queries beyond one’s “present resources to solve.” In 1990, Morley passed on the magazine to Douglas (now George) Fetherling, who reinvented it into something more closely resembling its present format: a journal of literary and cultural history and criticism. Fetherling continued publishing the magazine with either “charming” or “calculated” irregularity—until 1997, when he passed it on to Tim and Elke Inkster of the Porcupine’s Quill. The Inksters published eighteen more issues over the next nine years, before selling it to Biblioasis in 2006. Its covers and interior graphics are designed by the eminent cartoonist Seth. MASTHEAD

Published by Biblioasis Inc. Publisher: Dan Wells

Editor: Emily Donaldson

Contributing Editors:

Brian Busby
Andreae Callanan
Steacy Easton
Jesse Eckerlin
André Forget
Alex Good
James Grainger
Luke Hathaway
Kim Jernigan
John Metcalf
Patricia Robertson
Bruce Whiteman

Poetry Editor: Madhur Anand

Cover Image and Design: Seth

Composition: Craig Small

Website: Ashley Van Elswyk

Distribution: Magazines Canada

Printed in Canada by Friesens

Happy holidays everyone, CNQ 114 has landed! https://www.notesandqueries.ca/number-114/FEATURING: Randy Boyagoda on read...
12/12/2023

Happy holidays everyone, CNQ 114 has landed! https://www.notesandqueries.ca/number-114/

FEATURING: Randy Boyagoda on reading novels before writing novels and after writing novels; Vanessa Stauffer on the newly international Griffin Prize; Noelle Allen's lessons from building an indie bestsellers list; Brian Busby's 50th anniversary feature on Véhicule Press; and a note from publisher Dan Wells on independence.

PLUS: Canisia Lubrin on Dionne Brand's 'Nomenclature'; and part one of Jason Guriel's new comic "The Pigheaded Soul". Shelf talkers from indie booksellers. Reviews of the latest books by Eva H.D., Alex Manley, Peter Counter, Winnifred Eaton, Robert Lower, Jake Byrne, Andrew Steinmetz, Aaron Tucker, and Patrick deWitt.

And even more literary excellence you don't want to miss! Grab up a copy from our website, your favourite local bookseller, or, for as little as $25/year: SUBSCRIBE! 📚❄️

CNQ 113 is here! http://notesandqueries.ca/number-113/Featuring: Souvankham Thammavongsa's literary rise; Steven W Beatt...
16/06/2023

CNQ 113 is here! http://notesandqueries.ca/number-113/

Featuring: Souvankham Thammavongsa's literary rise; Steven W Beattie on indie publishers and CanLit; Liz Harmer on uncomfortable books; Naben Ruthnum on writing across genre; Zoe Grams' feature on indie bookstore Upstart & Crow; Madeleine Stratford on Quebec literature; and John Vardon's examination of Morley Callaghan.

Plus: Douglas Glover on Clark Blaise; and Waubgeshig Rice's Moon of the Crusted Snow adapted by Zach Worton. Shelf talkers from indie booksellers. Reviews of the latest books by Sharon Thesen, Andrée A. Michaud, Jeannie Marshall, Jeffery Donaldson, Annick MacAskill, Pierre Nepveu, Liz Harmer, and Geoffrey Morrison.

And even more literary excellence you don't want to miss! Grab up a copy from our website, your favourite local bookseller, or, for as little as $25/year: SUBSCRIBE!

What's Old!Winner of the Giller, the Trillium, and a Commonwealth Writer’s Prize, The Polished Hoe was Austin’s Clarke’s...
17/03/2023

What's Old!

Winner of the Giller, the Trillium, and a Commonwealth Writer’s Prize, The Polished Hoe was Austin’s Clarke’s tenth, penultimate, and longest novel. Dealing with murder, subjugation, memory, and more, it was first published in 2002 by Thomas Allen. This twentieth-anniversary edition features a new foreword by Rinaldo Walcott.

From CNQ 110: "When East Meets West How Canadian geography feeds Western alienation" by J R Patterson"Canada, despite it...
14/03/2023

From CNQ 110: "When East Meets West How Canadian geography feeds Western alienation" by J R Patterson

"Canada, despite its outward, international appearance as a country supportive of self-determination, has practiced domestic cultural exclusion since before Confederation."

Read the full essay: https://notesandqueries.ca/essays/where-east-meets-west/

What's Old Wednesday!Yellow Bootsby Vera LysenkoToronto: Ryerson, 1954; $85.00Born Vera Lesik in Winnipeg, in 1910, to U...
01/02/2023

What's Old Wednesday!

Yellow Boots
by Vera Lysenko
Toronto: Ryerson, 1954; $85.00

Born Vera Lesik in Winnipeg, in 1910, to Ukrainian Baptist immigrant parents, Lysenko, a journalist who also wrote as Luba Novack, is best known as the author of Men in Sheepskin Coats (1947), a controversial pro-communist study of the loss of Ukrainian heritage in the post-war period. Lysenko also penned two novels, including this one about a Ukrainian-Canadian girl who sacrifices everything for material success. (The other was Westerly Wild, a melodramatic tale of life in rural western Canada during the 1930s.)

This copy is inscribed by the author to Nan Shipley, another Winnipeg-based author of history and children’s books.
—via Books, Winnipeg, MB

Subscribers, keep an eye on your mail boxes - CNQ 112 is coming your way!
19/01/2023

Subscribers, keep an eye on your mail boxes - CNQ 112 is coming your way!

CNQ 112 has arrived: http://notesandqueries.ca/number-112/Featuring: Michael Holmes' remembrance of the late Steven Heig...
09/01/2023

CNQ 112 has arrived: http://notesandqueries.ca/number-112/

Featuring: Michael Holmes' remembrance of the late Steven Heighton; Susan Glickman on a lifelong love of sci-fi and fantasy; Roderick Moody-Corbett on Karen Solie's early journalism; Ariel Gordon on mushrooms and serial killers; James Cairns on an attraction to Knausgaard and what it reveals; Ian Clay Sewall on imprinting; and Graeme Hunter on navigating the Scottish school system.

Plus: Brian Busby on Jean Beattie; and an interview with Bruce Whiteman. Poetry by Preeti Kaur Dhaliwal and Richard Sanger; Fiction by Carolyn Bennett and Natalie Southworth. Reviews of the latest books by Suzette Mayr, Tolu Oloruntoba, Jana Prikryl, Alex Pugsley, Emma Donoghue, André Forget, Erica McKeen, Jowita Bydlowska, Marius Kociejowski, and Madhur Anand.

And even more literary excellence you don't want to miss! Pick up a copy from our website, your favourite local bookseller, or, for as little as $25/year: SUBSCRIBE!

CNQ 110: A scene from Claudia Dey’s HEARTBREAKER, illustrated by artist Cai Sepulis for
20/12/2022

CNQ 110: A scene from Claudia Dey’s HEARTBREAKER, illustrated by artist Cai Sepulis for

Printer proofs for CNQ 112 are here, and the finished issue isn't too far off!Featuring Roderick Moody-Corbett on Karen ...
29/11/2022

Printer proofs for CNQ 112 are here, and the finished issue isn't too far off!

Featuring Roderick Moody-Corbett on Karen Solie's journalism, Ariel Gordon on mushrooms and serial killers, Michael Holmes's tribute to the late Steven Heighton, new poetry, reviews and more—this is an issue you won't want to miss!

Click the link to subscribe: http://notesandqueries.ca/subscribe/

"When my father wrote Perilous Passage as a seven-part series in The Saturday Evening Post in 1949, he was well establis...
25/11/2022

"When my father wrote Perilous Passage as a seven-part series in The Saturday Evening Post in 1949, he was well established as a West Coast short story writer selling to magazines in the United States. He was Canadian to the bone, but he didn’t then call himself a Canadian writer. From the start he intended to make his living by writing."

From CNQ 110: Telling the Story by Susan Mayse on Arthur Mayse and the writing of Perilous Passage

Read the full essay: https://notesandqueries.ca/essays/telling-the-story/

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