Review

Fan Wu is a semi-oceanic species of octopus jumping up and down. He works in performance, poetry, and the ecstasies of collective action. You can read his work in _Feeld, The Flaherty Film Seminar, The Vermin,_ and _C Magazine_. 

_Badlands: A Dance in Time_  by Andrea Spaziani and Prince Nifty (Matt Smith), with Julia Male, Sofi Gudiño, and Germaine Liu, was performed on 24 August 2024 at Lobe, Vancouver.

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Badlands: A Dance in Time – Andrea Spaziani and Prince Nifty (Matt Smith), with Julia Male, Sofi Gudiño, and Germaine Liu

Gossip, as “unverified” information, has complex relations to power. As a historically maligned oral tradition, with gendered roots, it asks that we question our sources—who we trust and why—as well as who has been afforded belief or legitimization over others. In this issue, gossip takes various forms, from a mode of subversion under settler-colonial states to speculative fiction; it is revealed in the archives, in silence, and in its failures to resist authoritarian imaginings or institutional exploitation. After all, why do we gossip?


Gossip

_Emanations_ was published by Wolsak & Wynn, Hamilton, 2022.

_Emanations_ — Prathna Lor

Humour

Fan Wu reviews the book _I Apologize_ (2020) by Jessica Baldanza, published by Random Man Editions.

I Apologize: Jessica Baldanza

Déjà Vu

Fan Wu reviews Shanzhai Lyric’s exhibition _LOOSELY ASSEMBLED CYCLE 3: J’ai besoin d’a Of North 1986_ at SBC Gallery, Montreal (May 25 – August 2, 2019).

Shanzhai Lyric: LOOSELY ASSEMBLED CYCLE 3: J'ai besoin d'a Of North 1986

Letter

Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross is a writer and editor based on the traditional, unceded territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, and səlilwətaɬ nations. Her fiction, poetry, essays, and art criticism have appeared in _BOMB, The Ex-Puritan, Fence, Mousse,_ and elsewhere, and she is currently the Art Editor at _The Capilano Review_. Her debut fiction collection, _The Longest Way to Eat a Melon_, is forthcoming from Sarabande Books in 2025.


Monument

Four letters reflecting on the spring ‘Graphic Design’ issue.

Letters

Feature

Prathna Lor is a poet and doctoral student of literature and critical theory at the University of Toronto where they are writing a book on aesthetic difficulty.

Voice

Poetry

Dialogue

Criticism

This article considers Nguyen Tron Hiep’s poem “Paris, capitale de la France, Recueil de vers” (Hanoi,1897), which served as the epigraph to Walter Benjamin’s The Arcades Project. Prathna Lor and Fan Wu bring together critical theory by Jean-Luc Nancy, Anne Carson and Roland Barthes to contemplate on their own friendship. 

Sisyphus’ Music Box: A dialogue on race and interruption

Performance

The article reviews Anne Carson’s poem “Dave’s, Lake Michigan, Early June”.

The Lake Is a Plate of Itself: On Anne Carson’s “Dave’s, Lake Michigan, Early June”

This is a review of The Animated Reader: Poetry of _Surround Audience_ edited by Brian Droitcour (New York: The New Museum, 2015). 

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