31 Days of Stories, Day 6: “Fidelity: A Primer” by Michael Blumlein
The self-reflexive section at the story's close adds another interpretive level to the piece.
31 Days of Stories 2026, Day 5: “My Tumour” by Jen Currin
Currin's story centres on the disjunction between Lise's more sensible attitudes and Matthew's wild suppositions.
31 Days of Stories 2026, Day 4: “The Library of Babel” by Jorge Luis Borges; James E. Irby, trans.
Several critics have noted the strong influence Kafka had on Borges's writing and thinking.
31 Days of Stories 2026, Day 3: “The Resident Poet” by Katherine Dunn
What we are presented with through Sally's eyes are two people who don't really want to be where they are but are merely playing roles they believe they are meant to inhabit.
31 Days of Stories 2026, Day 2: “Red Wind” by Raymond Chandler
Raymond Chandler was the original poet laureate of the 20th century hardboiled detective story.
31 Days of Stories 2026, Day 1: Best Canadian Stories 2026
The thing about Zsuzsi Gartner is she's fearless.
“We pay attention”: The stories in Nina Dunic’s debut collection address the ways we connect – or don’t – with one another
Many of the stories in Suddenly Light deal with separation, either emotional or literal.
A European sensibility infuses the stories in Montreal resident Mikhail Iossel’s latest story collection
Iossel's chosen technique has the paradoxical effect of simultaneously speeding the prose up and slowing it down.
M&S has “support of the estate” for redacted text in Alistair MacLeod story, says publisher
Alexander MacLeod, Alistair's son and a fellow M&S author, said he had "no knowledge of this change."
McClelland & Stewart excises racial epithet from a story in the new Kanata Classics version of Alistair MacLeod’s Island
Better not to include it in this series at all than to include it in even a mildly bowdlerized form.