Recently added articles from Queen's Quarterly:
Dragons from the past.(From the Editor)(optimism)(Brief article)
Mar 22, 2009 ... UNCERTAINTY is our new condition, as we contemplate the past half year, and hear the prophets of doom invoking the most fearsome monsters of the last century--economic depression, social upheaval, famine, war, and genocide. There seem to be a million reasons why the future should prove to ...
World of CHAOS, dreams of order.(Essay)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Kierkegaard informed us that "Life is lived forward but is understood backward." He might have gone on to tell us that even when we study the past we do not understand that its themes persist, just slightly altered, in our present life. Banks still manage to fail; mortgages are granted to ...
A new Corb?(Le Corbusier)(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Whatever urban planners may believe, Le Corbusier has an enduring importance that no architect--or city-dweller--can afford to ignore. His struggles with form and planning show an appreciation, all too lacking in too many contemporary practitioners, of the ways in which architecture is ...
Russia's modernist relics: the Lost Vanguard: Russian Modernist Architecture 1922-1932, Richard Pare (New York: Monacelli Press, 2007).(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... No visitor to Moscow--no visitor with a pair of eyes and an imagination--can fail to be impressed by the city's constructed environment. Architecture in Moscow, as in other Russian cities, always means something. This of course suggests Russia's role in a European tradition--European ...
On the trail of the prodigal son.(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2009; ... In the shaven-headed son, still wearing the shameful dagger at his belt, does not each of us find the image of his own exile and aspire to lay before his father the sandals worn down by the road's roughness? Onto the kneeling son's torn tunic, the father lays hands of welcome and ...
Natural Affinities: the western landscapes of Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams.
Mar 22, 2009; ... THE WORKS of iconic American artists Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams are focused on beauty in nature, and transform these elements with colour and tone. While both call attention to the abstract aspects of the Western landscape, they do so in different ways. Adams' photographs ...
Woven perfection: the new Persian carpets.(Orley & Shabahang)(Brief article)
Mar 22, 2009; ... In 2001, Bahram shabahang, with the support of his long-time friend and business partner Geoffrey Orley, set out to revive the Friend and business partner Geoffrey Orley, set out to revive the tradition of distinctly creative Persian carpets, and to uncover the long-forgotten techniques ...
The inside story: St Michael's Hospital, July 14, 2006.(Viewpoint essay)
Mar 22, 2009; ... The infant adenocarcinoma sits quietly, unobtrusively, just below the bend of my right (ascending) colon. It's a relatively unusual place for a malignancy. Only about 15 percent choose to perch there, but my young cancer seems happy, nursing on whatever nutrients it favours, sucking the ...
R. Murray Schafer at 75 an appreciation.(Biography)
Mar 22, 2009; ... In southern Ontario, the summer of 2002 lingered long into September. On the Oak Ridges Moraine--a hilly glacial deposit about 100 kilometres northeast of Toronto--the leaves were still green and there was an unseasonable warmth in the air, even during the evening. It was as though autumn ...
The imagined portrait.(Viewpoint essay)
Mar 22, 2009; ... DURING the course of photographing and writing this book, I found that men and women have different views about the value and meaning of public display. This accounts for the smaller number of women in Closer to Home despite the fact that there is no shortage of women writers. Young women ...
4 Last songs.(Richard Strauss' Four Last Songs)(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Music: Strauss' Four Last Songs. For the profundity that is achieved not by complexity but by clarity and simplicity. For the purity of the sentiment about death and parting and loss. For the long melodic line spinning out and the female voice soaring and soaring. For the repose and ...
Not his real name.(Short story)
Mar 22, 2009; ... I am going to pick a neutral name for the hero of this story, a name that has no emotional resonance for me. I reach for the book that is lying half read on the wicker occasional table next to me, and as I pick it up I remember that it is dedicated to a Sam. So his name is Sam. ...
The chicken coop.(Poem)
Mar 22, 2009; ... <Pre> The house my parents had built for them went back to the bank and we moved three miles down the road to a chicken coop converted to a crude home, and that's where I learned first to crawl, then to walk. Later, we moved deep into an orchard of apples and pears to an abandoned ...
Sex poem.(Poem)
Mar 22, 2009; ... <Pre> a woman's body is a foreign country and you are not a native you are a man with a stamped passport you are allowed to visit the Beaux Arts in Paris and you have toured the lovely Miramare Gardens in Trieste you have wandered through the Monastero Maggiore in ...
Affair.(Poem)
Mar 22, 2009; ... <Pre> let's have an affair you and I why not we're fashionable and what can be more hip than sitting in cafes meeting in bookstores peering over shelves with knowing eyes laughing on bicycles as we pedal through the rain let's have an affair it seems like fun or maybe not ...
Apology.(Poem)
Mar 22, 2009; ... <Pre> A shard from the old shore that drifted with a purpose: find China, find gold, make orphans. Trace my name to Ire- and Scot--and Engel land but you will not find me there. My greater parts were lost in passage, dropped in the ocean, vomited over rails. I stand here, an ...
From the editor.
Dec 22, 2008 ... BOOKS have been revolutionary windows to the world far longer than the electronic innovations of the last century. Whether the reader is in Prague or Darwin, the printed page enables the ordinary person to experience the wider world without ever leaving the room--just as books have ...
In the theatre of memory.
Dec 22, 2008; ... The past is a theatre where the mind reworks fragments of incident into a narrative that we call the self. Memory constantly re-stages itself like a playwright reworking an unsatisfactory script. Perhaps it presents the past in the form that will be most comfortable to us when we recall ...
Portrait of a carnivore.(Short story)
Dec 22, 2008; ... 1 FRIENDS sit for me sometimes. I sketch them in words, being a writer, not a painter. This particular canvas is a family portrait of my pure-wool Anglo-Celtic friend, Tristram. He is an entrepreneur and a poet, currently in prison. A remarkable chap, he made his first million ...
My night in the ER.(EMERGENCY)(Short story)
Dec 22, 2008; ... It is four o'clock on a Wednesday afternoon, and I have come to the hospital to shadow an ER doctor on his rounds. I have been given a badge, ushered past the security guard, through the double doors and into a large beige room rimmed with curtained beds, and a round nurses' station, ...