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No Ideas

Michael DeForge

Michael DeForge lives and works as a cartoonist in Toronto. His most recent book is Familiar Face, published by Drawn & Quarterly in 2021.

40 | Winter 2021 1

Editor's Note

  • Editor’s Note: Issue 40  Greg Santos

Comics

  • No Ideas  Michael DeForge
  • Excerpt from Questions, a work in progress  Sarah Leavitt

Fiction

  • The Queue  Helen Chau Bradley
  • Last Summer  Ryanne Kap
  • Lessons in Cartography  Lucie Pagé
  • Shiva  Claire Holden Rothman
  • The Necessity of City Walls  Andrew F. Sullivan
  • Three Short Pieces  Rachel Wallace

Nonfiction

  • Circumnavigating Rikers  Matthew Gagnon Blair
  • Good Fortune  Minelle Mahtani
  • Looking at Australia, Looking at Me  Angela Wright

Photography

  • Inside Out  Yaara Rozner Laizé
  • Broken Windows  David Swartz
  • What’s Left Behind  Angela Zheng

Poetry

  • I do not want to be the first to say goodnight  Manahil Bandukwala
  • wind is the flow of gasses on a large scale (wikipedia)  Trynne Delaney
  • the drive-up microphone at burger king  Rachel Lachmansingh
  • Two Poems  Angbeen Saleem
  • Who Gives Us the Permission to Exist?  Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch

Translation

  • The Things We Name  Translated by Riley Donlon from Simon Brown
  • Made-Up  Excerpts translated by Alex Manley from Daphné B.
  • If You Would See  Translated by Philip Styrt from Pierre de Ronsard

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