31 Days of Stories 2025 – Page 3 – That Shakespearean Rag

Like his contemporary, the Irish monk and writer Laurence Sterne, Diderot proved well ahead of his time.

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Gasco has endowed her story with something that is terribly unfashionable in book club circles and social media feeds: an unlikable narrator.

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The shifting ground of motivation and relationship between the two characters is brought out metaphorically in the mummers' costumes.

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The speaker in the story is Azurée Ghiz, the descendent of Arab immigrants in Toronto.

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The story is on one level a comedy of manners; on another, it is a careful and cutting critique of capitalism.

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The bare bones of Gardam's story appear minor and parochial; this belies the depth and complexity the author infuses into her tale.

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