On the one hand there is the eleventh century Icelandic loafer, Grettir, and on the other hand there is Aiden the north midlands do-nothing living in a council house. Isn't it sorrow enough is on ...every one in the house without you sending him out with an unlucky word behind him, and a hard word in his ear?" (Synge, Riders 61). In "Fit to Breed: Exercise and Sport in Women's Speculative Fiction," Karen YaChu Yang interprets Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and Ursula Le Guin's "The Matter of Seggri" as dystopian allegories of "reproductive fitness." In the pieces collected here, the contributions turn primarily on the novel, the Northern hemisphere, and the increasing complexities of life in the modern period. ...our cover, which features the work of Rodney Graham, Wisdom's "Ten Songs..." for Rodney Graham, and this introduction to Graham's work here.
