Queen's Quarterly articles

Recent articles from Queen's Quarterly

From the editor.
December 22, 2008... BOOKS have been revolutionary windows to the world far longer than the electronic innovations of the last century. Whether the reader is in Prague or Darwin, the printed page enables the ordinary person to experience the wider world without ever leaving the room--just as books have broadened...

In the theatre of memory.
December 22, 2008... The past is a theatre where the mind reworks fragments of incident into a narrative that we call the self. Memory constantly re-stages itself like a playwright reworking an unsatisfactory script. Perhaps it presents the past in the form that will be most comfortable to us when we recall it....

Portrait of a carnivore.(Short story)
December 22, 2008... 1 FRIENDS sit for me sometimes. I sketch them in words, being a writer, not a painter. This particular canvas is a family portrait of my pure-wool Anglo-Celtic friend, Tristram. He is an entrepreneur and a poet, currently in prison. A remarkable chap, he made his first million by the...

My night in the ER.(EMERGENCY)(Short story)
December 22, 2008... It is four o'clock on a Wednesday afternoon, and I have come to the hospital to shadow an ER doctor on his rounds. I have been given a badge, ushered past the security guard, through the double doors and into a large beige room rimmed with curtained beds, and a round nurses' station, parked...

Cracking the mirror: self-representation in literature and art.
December 22, 2008... What else can you call painting but a similar embracing with art of what is presented on the surface of the water in the fountain? Leon Battista Alberti on a painting of Narcissus, De Pictura (1435) ARE MIRRORS the fountains of art? Before the invention of photography in the 1840s,...