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The Dog, The Dress & Memorial
By Eva Crocker It’s damp early spring and my across-the-hall neighbour, Michael, is stacking smashed car windshields in the hall outside his unit. Michael collects cracked windshields from garages, and…
“There’s an ease and freedom to making up a story, paring it down, sending it away; anything can happen to it then”: Nicholas Ruddock takes us around Planet Earth
You are very versatile with literary forms – with the NQ alone you’ve published non-fiction and poetry, and you’re also a novelist, with Last Hummingbird West of Chile just released…
Have camera (and dog), will go birding: Sheldon Anthony shares some snaps
Winter wren Tiny, short-tailed, plain-brown wren with a huge voice. Subtly patterned, with indistinct pale eyebrow and diffuse dark barring on flanks and wings. Constantly keeps tail cocked at an…
A History of Her Majesty’s Penitentiary: David Harvey takes readers Inside the Walls
Can you talk about the format of this history – it’s almost a scrapbook of news articles, training manuals, personal documents. How did you organize and contextualize all this? This…
Smoke On the Water
Nora Kelly is an illustrator, oil painter, and muralist based in Montreal, Quebec. She lives with her partner, an Argentinian tattoo-artist and muralist, and her Boston Terrier named Squid. On…
Agitator, draft dodger, journalist, dad: Alex Bill publishes a biography of his father, Roger Bill
Congratulations on your new book, Dangerously Close to Contempt. Where did the idea come from? I was at a point in my professional life where I wanted to push myself…
50 Years In the Building: Part 2 of our conversation with Don Mikel
You’ve talked about Streamline Moderne. It seems like something comes into fashion, everybody wants it, and then it goes out of fashion – like poured concrete buildings were once a…