Recently added articles from Queen's Quarterly:

From the editor.(Editorial)(Brief article)

Mar 22, 2008 ... WE OFTEN speak of "changing the world," and yet we have had such limited success when it comes to changing ourselves, our own stubborn human nature. From Robinson Crusoe's musket to Oppenheimer's atomic bomb, we are adept at adding ingenious new items to our technological toolbox--but in ...

Fashioning Friday.(Robinson Crusoe)(Critical essay)

Mar 22, 2008; Cohen, Derek ... After fifteen years of the purest human solitude, Robinson Crusoe, walking one day to his boat, comes upon a footprint on the shore. The moment is electric. His first reaction of incomprehension soon gives way to sheer terror, and he retreats in alarm and haste to the home he calls his ...

Praying to the Lord of the Lotus.(Short story)

Mar 22, 2008; Foran, Charles ... DAYS and nights are strange in Hong Kong. Schools have been closed for five weeks to be scrubbed free of SARS. Parents, fearful the virus will go airborne, shelter their children indoors. Playgrounds are forlorn and play dates too great a risk. With shops and restaurants likewise emptied, ...

In their generation wiser.(Essay)

Mar 22, 2008; Millin, Leslie ... I cannot dig; to beg I am ashamed. Parable of the Unjust Steward, LUKE 16:1-8 <Pre> Lord Finchley tried to mend the Electric Light Himself. It struck him dead: And serve him right! It is the business of the wealthy man To give employment to the artisan. HILAIRE ...

The spy from Palestine.(Aaron Aaronsohn)(Essay)

Mar 22, 2008; Posner, Michael ... The map of the Middle East has been a maddening picture for a very long time--long before European diplomats took out their rulers and pencils in the aftermath of the Great War. Few realize that the maps may have had very different lines today if a single airplane had not mysteriously ...

Six from six million: Daniel Mendelsohn interviewed.(Interview)

Mar 22, 2008; Kalman Naves, Elaine ... Critic, journalist, and classics professor Daniel Mendelsohn is the award-winning author of three books: The Elusive Embrace: Desire and the Riddle of Identity (1999), a memoir; Gender and the City in Euripides' Political Plays (2002), a scholarly work on Greek tragedy; and The Lost: A ...

When the stars threw down their spears.

Mar 22, 2008; Brittain, Miller ... The relatively short life of Canadian artist Miller Brittain (1912-1968) is defined partly by the diverse body of drawings and paintings that he left behind. The work of this East Coast artist traces a course of self-examination, interprets the life and people around him, and probes his ...

The still earth.(Personal account)(Brief article)

Mar 22, 2008; Dobrowner, Mitch ... Growing up on Long Island, New York, I felt lost by my late teens. Worried about my direction in life, my parents gave me an old Argus rangefinder to fool with, and little did they realize how important this gesture would be. After doing some research and seeing the images of Minor White ...

Digging in.(Critical essay)

Mar 22, 2008; Yacowar, Maurice ... Faith, oil, and greed were all big players in the drama of American life at the start of the twentieth century--needles to say, in today's world they've lost none of their star power. The essential question--"How should we live?"--gets a similar reformulation in two of the ...

On the other side of / prudence.(Essay)

Mar 22, 2008; Fulford, Robert ... ADULTERY, the life-dividing crisis that sends many patients to the offices of psychiatrists, soon reveals itself as a major subtext of the TV series In Treatment, the latest mining of dramatic ore from the depths of psychotherapy.As it happens adultery, reconceived with imaginative ...

Spinning the Past: Prime Ministerial Memoirs, 2007.(Critical essay)

Mar 22, 2008; McDowall, Duncan ... "Memoirs," the English poet George Meredith once wrote, "are the backstairs of history." They invite us to prowl behind the facade of bygone events, to peer into the hitherto dark recesses of human motivation. A memoir should be a distillation of human ambition--a contemplation of ...

Motive, fallout.(on political journalism)(Essay)

Mar 22, 2008; Simpson, Jeffrey ... If most reporting is about motive and fallout, it becomes the reporting of political calculation, and therefore assumes that political decisions are all about calculation, and nothing else. No wonder, then, that the citizens, when fed this kind of reporting, believe, as the media lead them ...

Cerulean.(Short story)

Mar 22, 2008; Young, Bryan ... HONOURABLE COUNCILLORS!" exclaimed the City Mayor, who had become addicted to pep pills: "We will build a Monument to Literature!" "Hear, hear!" cried the Honourables, rapping their walnut desks. "A factory of words, Councillors! We have entered the era of ...

Against scaffolding.(Poem)(Brief article)

Mar 22, 2008; Mccartney, Sharon ... <Pre> The way I'm compelled to dismantle, to bare the walls beneath the muddle, warmed by the exertion, like the two men in orange coveralls I'm watching from the vacant Via station, hours until my train, -30 outside, as they tear down scaffolds. I imagine their pliant male strength, ...

Agreement: between zero and one.(Poem)(Brief article)

Mar 22, 2008; Penny, Michael ... <Pre> Zero will give everything to One. One will take nothing from Zero. This is not an Agreement but a surrender. The parties agree they cannot overcome this difficulty: adding nothing to One leaves it unchanged, and taking everything from Zero means nothing. The parties ...

From the hip.(Poem)(Brief article)

Mar 22, 2008; Slater, John ... Who can break from the snares of the world and sit with me among the white clouds? HAN-SHAN <Pre> Offhand mastery: Air Jordan loves golf more than basketball; da Vinci indulged in painting as a past-time, dashed off a Mona Lisa to relax, less 'call' than ...

Dreams.(Poem)(Brief article)

Mar 22, 2008; Britt, Alan ... for Chanelle Vida Britt: 1993-2004 <Pre> ...the river which as it grows deeper is seen to run slower, clearer. MIGUEL HERNANDEZ Ever notice how dreams with each passing hour, day, month, year disintegrate as though being eaten voraciously by piranha or algae? ...