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    Number 115

    CNQ Issue #115 (Spring/Summer 2026)

    **COMING JUNE 2026**

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    Contents

    Editorial

    • Do Not Go Quietly by Dan Wells

    Features

    • No Canada in CanLit: More and more Canadian authors are writing fiction for American readers. What is being lost? by Lydia Perović
    • Going, Going . . .: The Unravelling of Canada’s literary identity by Ira Wells
    • The Pafology of Satire: Are we in on the joke, or is the joke on us? by Randy Boyagoda
    • The Lost Art of Not Pitching: Don’t say you know the story before you do by David Macfarlane
    • Virtual Horror Movies: The Poetry of Alexandra Oliver: Witty and formally sophisticated poems about a pandemonium of personal and political demons by James Pollock

    The Pigheaded Soul

    • #2 by Jason Guriel

    Reviews

    • Chris Oliveros’s Are You Willing to Die for the Cause? by Brian Bethune
    • Nina Dunic’s Suddenly Light by Rudrapriya Rathore
    • Sheila Heti’s Alphabetical Diaries by Ian McGillis
    • Marianne Apostolides’s Go/No-Go by Anne Thériault
    • Mavis Gallant’s Montreal Standard Time by Stephen Henighan
    • Kate Black’s Big Mall by Alex Good
    • Matthew J. Trafford’s Runs in the Blood by Brett Josef Grubisic
    • Lauren Carter’s The Longest Night by Mark Sampson