Wishing us peace on earth, and all the joys of the season …

December 2022

and we’ll meet here again in 2023.
(John Lennon’s Imagine, courtesy Wikimedia.)

Coming soon: NQ Fall 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…

Thirteen Ways of Looking at an Iceberg

BY Matthew Hollett

I’VE BEEN READING After Icebergs with a Painter, Rev. Louis L. Noble’s imaginative travelogue from a voyage around Newfoundland in 1859. It’s like following a jet-setting paparazzo’s Instagram – except instead of celebrity photos, it’s full of nineteenth-century prose portraits of icebergs.