Holiday lights & rush
BY NQ
December 2019
A lovely & safe Season to all, and we’ll see you back on nqonline in January 2020.
The Codfish Splitting Machine
BY Matthew Hollett
IN THE FALL 1922 ISSUE of Newfoundland Quarterly, anchored between a lament for the drowning of a local businessman and a brief history of Puerto Rico, I found a curious article titled “The Iron Splitter for Dressing Codfish.”
Decidedly disinterested in Oscar buzz (“I feel like life is the prize,” Alice Walker once said), the author told me that she hopes the film prompts viewers to embrace “The Gospel According to Shug.”
BY Evelyn C White
In his early review of the epistolary novel that would later win the 1983 Pulitzer Prize in fiction, a New York book critic declared The Color Purple a work of…
The View From the Bottom
BY Gary Newhook
WHEN SOMEONE SAYS, “Let’s fill in all the potholes,” nobody speaks up for us. Nobody talks about our role in the provincial economy.