Editor & Fiction Editor – Michael Mejia
Poetry Editors – Katharine Coles, Craig Dworkin, Thomas Stillinger
Nonfiction Editors – Stuart Culver, Jeremy Rosen
Managing Editor – Emily Dyer Barker
Consulting Editors – Barry Weller, Mindy Wilson
Print Design – Hailey Rabdau
Web Design – Adam Halstrom
Editorial Board – Scott Black, Vincent Cheng, Norman Council, Karen Lawrence, Michael Martone, Stephen Tatum
Cover Image –Thomas Mawson, “The Civic Centre as it may appear many years hence” [between 1911 and 1914]. Image appears courtesy of the Canadian Architectural Archives, 42A/78.32 MAW C25.1
Editor’s Note
Our annual special issue with the Western Humanities Alliance. This year’s theme is “Spectral Cities”
Guest Editors – Jim Ellis, Noreen Humble, and Graham Livesey
Western Humanities Alliance Special Issue:
Spectral Cities
Jim Ellis, Noreen Humble, and Graham Livesey
Spectral Cities: Ideal Visions, Alternative Geographies, Forgotten Pasts
Susan Birkwood
Shifting the Narrative of Winnipeg’s North End in Katherena Vermette’s The Break
Susan Ingram
Proletenpassion ff.: Reviving the Ghosts of Red Vienna
Larissa Fassler
Common Ground
Ezgi İşbilen
A Virtual City Scratched on Desert Dust: California City and the Allure of the Blank Slate
Alberto Manguel
The City as Dream or The Poet as City Planner
Anthony Camara
Computing Human Identity in Greg Egan’s Permutation City
Ato Quayson
Morphology as Infrastructure: Notes on Method