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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in Quill & Quire JANUARY FEBRUARY 2017.
Contributors
Dana Hansen is a writer and reviewer, and an English professor at Toronto’s Humber College. She has written for The Globe and Mail, Literary Review of Canada, The Toronto Review of Books, ...
A shock to the system
ASK ANYONE in the CanLit community about “the letter” and you’re likely to elicit a strong emotional response, be it sadness, anger, defensiveness, or defeat. This now-infamous open letter, writt...
Fighting words
PROFILE
ILLUSTRATION BY RACHEL IDZERDA
A mid the political anxieties of our time, Monia Mazigh’s latest novel, Hope HasTwo Daughters, presents a historical milieu where some of the wo...
Hard copying
ACCESS COPYRIGHT is warning creators and publishers to brace for yet another signifi-cant decrease in their royalty payments. The non-profit agency, which licenses Canadian artistic works to educ...
Best of times, Worst of times
Best Philip Roth is donating his personal book collection to the Newark Public Library, with instructions to arrange them as they were in Roth’s home. And presumably never to look at them under black...
Point of order
AGONY EDITOR
ILLUSTRATION BY EVAN MUNDAY
Dear Agony Editor,
I’ve been writing pieces of a very long story for several years. I have trouble remembering what I did when, what...