Coming soon: NQ Fall 2025

August 2025

Here’s a brief selection::

“My neighbour had had surgery for cancer just a few months before. She understood the gut-wrenching terror of the diagnosis and offered to drive me to my medical appointments in Gander. After mychemo, she went with me to buy satin pillowcases, which were supposed to be easier on shedding scalps.

That night as I slipped them on the pillows, I looked out over the islands in the bay. The angle was slightly different from that of my bedroom window next door, and the view had slightly shifted. That wasn’t the only view that had changed. Bare patches of scalp faced me in the mirror across the room.And uncertainty had crept into my vision of the future.”

  • from The Red Beret, by Gail Alice Collins. Featured in NQ Fall 2025, on the stands August 29th

Recipes

BY Maxine Lewis

I have not finished sorting the recipes. There are literally thousands of them. As her memory became less sharp she no longer picked out good recipes with a discerning eye. Instead, she indiscriminately saved every recipe she came across. It was as if by losing herself in that old familiar action, she could somehow be back in the day when she would actually use them.