31 Days of Stories 2025, Day 8: “Hairs on Me” by Virginie Despentes; Will McMorran, trans.
"Hairs on Me" is a complicated reckoning with female desire and the kind of bodily insecurity a media-saturated world imposes on women.
31 Days of Stories 2025, Day 6: “This Is Not a Story” by Denis Diderot; Edward Marielle, trans.
Like his contemporary, the Irish monk and writer Laurence Sterne, Diderot proved well ahead of his time.
31 Days of Stories 2025, Day 5: “Can You Wave Bye Bye, Baby?” by Elyse Gasco
Gasco has endowed her story with something that is terribly unfashionable in book club circles and social media feeds: an unlikable narrator.
31 Days of Stories, Day 4: “The Mummers Parade” by Bridget Canning
The shifting ground of motivation and relationship between the two characters is brought out metaphorically in the mummers' costumes.
31 Days of Stories, Day 3: “A Degree of Suffering Is Required” by Christine Estima
The speaker in the story is Azurée Ghiz, the descendent of Arab immigrants in Toronto.
31 Days of Stories 2025, Day 2: “The Real Thing” by Henry James
The story is on one level a comedy of manners; on another, it is a careful and cutting critique of capitalism.
31 Days of Stories 2025, Day 1: “The Easter Lilies” by Jane Gardam
The bare bones of Gardam's story appear minor and parochial; this belies the depth and complexity the author infuses into her tale.
“The workforce is older and not moving”: The ACP’s Dani MacDonald discusses the implications in the group’s latest salary survey
"There's definitely under-representation of BIPOC individuals in senior roles," MacDonald says.
Future (un)certain: An unconventional POV undercuts the emotional force in Jean-Phillippe Baril Guérard’s You Crushed It
Guérard's novel gives the impression that the author is impatient with traditional narrative forms.
All the world a stage: The roles we play in our daily lives are examined in Katie Kitamura’s enigmatic Audition
In Audition we are presented with two essentially incompatible versions of the same woman