In this issue:

Past Life: Fragments From a Childhood, by Gwendolyn MacEwen (1941-1987)
“You are eleven years old and have finally decided you can fly…”

In Conversation: The Bean and Its Story, by Flora Stormer
“Coffee – black gold – has a history shot through with smuggling, slavery, riches, poverty, speculation, and intrigue…But not everybody knows that the beans are being used to brew relationship coffee – an alternative to fair trade – linking people all over the world with coffee farmers in South America…”

Marginalia Found in Books at the Vancouver Public Library, by Aislinn Hunter

Small Art Revolution: by Karen Neudorf
“Away from the headlines, a thriving community of artists and art lovers are developing their own connections, using the internet to create distribution channels that allow independent publishers, artists and musicians to get their work in front of the small audience that just might help them pay the rent and afford those necessary trips to the dentist…”

Film Journey: Original Frankensteins, by Doug Cummings
“Now that rampaging dinosaurs, epic catastrophes, and superheroes have become ubiquitous in movies, animation seems as commonplace as news footage. But…its practitioners were often the most solitary and obsessive of filmmakers…”

Adventure: analog kids and teen age riots, by Darren Hughes
“This will be the first year in nearly two decades that I will have bought more new music on vinyl than on CD…”

And more!

Artwork by Marc Johns, Katie Radke, Stefan Thompson, Byron Eggenschwiler, James Mejia, Erin Robertson, and Gordon Wiebe.