Recently added articles from Queen's Quarterly:
From the Editor.(Editorial)
Jun 22, 2008 ... MOST OFTEN in our world, we see beauty constructed by our relentlessly buzzing consumer society. The reported prices for works by Picasso and Matisse may seem astronomical, but they are nothing compared to the hundreds of billions spent on marketing beautiful images worldwide. Several of ...
The return of beauty.
Jun 22, 2008; ... You find one on Madison Street, near Pike, beyond the shadow of the Manhattan Bridge. It hovers on the wall of a makeshift parking lot, over exhaust, rust, old tags. It shouldn't be here, but there it is--a hummingbird. Life-size and lifelike, put in flight by the old painter's tricks of ...
Sean Yelland: Vanishing Point.(Brief article)
Jun 22, 2008; ... I don't set out to make specific statements with my paintings. I want people to react intuitively rather than intellectually. My intention is to draw the viewer in with something that may seem familiar at first, but, upon closer inspection, the imagery subverts any initial reaction. The ...
Moshe Safdie architect.(Interview)
Jun 22, 2008; ... We all want our cities to be beautiful, but so much gets in the way: red tape, institutional inertia, hostility to new ideas, and--always--the bottom line. But one of the world's great architectural visionaries has long argued that we have a duty to create buildings that are beautiful, ...
Margaret Watkins, photographer: seduced by the modern.(Critical essay)
Jun 22, 2008; ... WE HAVE long been captivated by the life of Margaret Watkins. She came to adulthood at the turn of the century, growing up reading Henrik Ibsen as well as Edith Wharton. Intelligent and hardworking, she became independent, making a life of her own as a successful artist and commercial ...
Kissinger's Gulf wars.(Henry Kissinger)(Essay)
Jun 22, 2008; ... On the fifth anniversary of George W. Bush's invasion of Saddam Hussein's fiefdom, let me succumb to the temptation of offering a counterfactual version of history. Had Henry Kissinger been born in 1943 instead of 1923, he could have helped shape US foreign policy in the 1990s instead of ...
Rethinking Shakespeare.(William Shakespeare)(Critical essay)(Cover story)
Jun 22, 2008; ... All great truths begin as blasphemies GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Let's start with a not-so-trivial trivia question: apart from the fact that they were all venerable, intelligent men, what did Sigmund Freud, Charles Dickens, Henry and William James, Ralph Waldo Emerson, John ...
Culture wars at the CBC.(Canadian Broadcasting Corporation)(Essay)
Jun 22, 2008; ... April 11 was a miserable day for a protest rally in Toronto: rainy and cold. Yet about 200 people showed up downtown to make their voices heard. Against the backdrop of the imposing CBC headquarters they looked small, but they weren't alone. Similar rallies took place on this day in ...
The Superior North.(Summer Reading)(Excerpt)
Jun 22, 2008; ... <Pre> "I live down there," said the Indian. "Will you be free tomorrow?" "I'm always free," he said. T. Morris Longstreth Lake Superior Country, 1924 </Pre> Religious, mythic, Christian, pagan, serene, and then suddenly ferocious, the world's deadliest inland sea: this was the ...
Paris, 1830.(Short story)
Jun 22, 2008; ... Death. It seems I am to die again. He slapped my face. I called him a "glorious inferior." (Not in that order.) And here we are, in this rainy wood in the middle of the working week, trying to kill one another. Let me explain. I want to tell you ...
What the World Takes Away.(Short story)
Jun 22, 2008; ... AFTER everyone else stops, we still search for Sister Bridget. "They didn't look hard enough," explains Lily. "They gave up too soon." My sister insists she and I will find the missing nun up where jungle distils Africa into a cool green element you can taste, mist you feel on your face; ...
Retaining wall.(Poem)(Brief article)
Jun 22, 2008; ... <Pre> Will it hold- the terrace wall and willows- when the planet melts just in time for our retirement? Is it enough to back-fill with crossword puzzles, contract bridge and Chinese for Beginners? If the sky blackens and pours, and the hill slides mud, toys and matted ...
The Roman soldier's ear.(Poem)(Brief article)
Jun 22, 2008; ... <Pre> No one ever talks about the Roman soldier's ear in the midnight garden when they arrested rebel Jesus and an angry early Christian sliced off the ear of one of the soldiers and it plummeted to the dust throbbing and bloody something from a Bosch nightmare painting and ...
Breathing exercise:a how-to poem.(Poem)(Brief article)
Jun 22, 2008; ... For Gil Fronsdal and in memory of Mark O'Brien (1949-1999) <Pre> The distance between the brightness at the top of the spine and the darkness below it is not far but when you shrink your mind it is enormous the whole length of human history can be fit inside it ...
After seeing paul en arlequin i confront picasso.(Poem)(Brief article)
Jun 22, 2008; ... <Pre> Look at your son perched on the black velvet chaise in gentle resignation: soft ruffles at the neck and wrists hands clasped one foot off the floor mere outline of the shoes, chair's legs How secure is that? ...