Moccasin Square Gardens

The fact that Richard Van Camp doesn’t have his own national radio show, à la the late Stuart McLean, is a bit of a disappointment. Van Camp is Canada’s greatest oral storyteller, a brilliant weaver ... Read More »

April 4, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

★ Immigrant City

By David Bezmozgis

In his sophomore volume of short fiction, David Bezmozgis deepens his exploration of the fates and furies that beset Jewish immigrants as they struggle with the unwieldy claims of the past. Replete with the wry ... Read More »

February 28, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

★ Divided Loyalties

By Nilofar Shidmehr

“I arrive in Tehran two days after my brother called to inform me about Dad’s death,” says Maana Khanoom at the opening of the title story in the new collection by Iranian-Canadian poet and ... Read More »

January 21, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

Angela of the Stones

By Amanda Hale

Every now and then, a short story appears that manages, through the author’s sheer craft, to compress all the emotional and narrative heft of a novel into 15 or 20 pages. Alice Munro has built ... Read More »

December 13, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

Tread and Other Stories

By Barry Dempster

December 13, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

All the Lonely People: Collected Stories

By Barry Callaghan

Barry Callaghan holds a position in the Canadian literary firmament that is at once praiseworthy and unenviable. Callaghan wrested himself from the shadow of his father, CanLit icon Morley Callaghan, to create a varied career ... Read More »

December 10, 2018 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Fiction: Short, Reviews

A Face Like the Moon

By Mina Athanassious

Two new short-fiction collections by emerging male writers – Somewhere North of Normal by National Magazine Award–winning writer Adam Lindsay Honsinger and A Face Like the Moon by debut author Mina Athanassious – explore divergent ... Read More »

November 26, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Somewhere North of Normal

By Adam Lindsay Honsinger

November 26, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Difficult People

By Catriona Wright

The first story in Catriona Wright’s debut collection, Difficult People, features a failed academic who has found herself working as a content moderator for an internet company. As an academic, she studied chronology in Alice ... Read More »

November 12, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Knockoff Eclipse

By Melissa Bull

November 12, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

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