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.)
Sean Panting: Art in the time of physical distancing
What book(s) and author(s) are you reading right now and why? I’m almost ashamed to say I’ve largely replaced regular books with audiobooks. Part of me feels like that’s cheating,…
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.