31 Days of Stories 2023, Day 7: “The Robot and the Baby” by John McCarthy
The story may not work as fiction, but it does illuminate some of the philosophical and ontological dilemmas swirling around the notion of sentient robots.
31 Days of Stories 2023, Day 6: “End Times” by Michelle Syba
Faith is, to those who don't subscribe, a kind of pandering to scared people.
31 Days of Stories 2023, Day 5: “The Earring” by Jo Nesbø; Robert Ferguson, trans.
The author's trick in "The Earring" is to convince his reader to sympathize with sad-sack Amund.
31 Days of Stories 2023, Day 4: “The Umbrella” by Tove Ditlevsen; Michael Favala Goldman, trans.
Ditlevsen is merciless in denying her protagonist catharsis.
31 Days of Stories, Day 3: “Meet You at the Door” by Lawrence Hill
Hill's short story was first published in the Walrus in 2011.
31 Days of Stories 2023, Day 2: “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates
The story has numerous commonalities with Everil Worrell's pulp horror tale "Leonora."
31 Days of Stories 2023, Day 1: “Leonora” by Everil Worrell
Worrell foregrounds the degree to which male members of the medical establishment dismiss or ignore women's complaints.
31 Days of Stories 2023: Introduction
Short story writers operate in a literary form that seems endlessly malleable, protean, and open to experimentation.
As the Festival of Literary Diversity turns eight, founder Jael Richardson looks back at past successes and forward to possible futures
"Finding ways to improve the experience is my favourite thing about the festival," says Richardson.
Carolyn Whitzman’s history of a notorious 19th century Toronto murder illustrates how much has not changed in the interim
A detailed and propulsive true crime story, Clara at the Door with a Revolver is also a work of social history.