Fiction at a Glance

The Watch Boys and Other Stories

Palmer, a professor at Concordia University, has compiled some travel memoirs, short stories and fragments of a ...

By Margaret Goldik

The Ideal Miniature Library

Roger Huet has for many years produced limited editions for collectors in the specialized market of miniature ...

By Ian McGillis

Digging for Philip

Philip, the protagonist in this novel for older teens, has lost his beloved father in a tragic accident. His ...

By Margaret Goldik

After All!

Hugh Hood died in 2000. This volume collects the last of his stories, in sequence. On first read they seem almost ...

By Margaret Goldik

Fair Weather

Like his D&Q stablemate Chester Brown, Joe Matt has uncanny access to the part of the brain marked "kid." His ...

By Ian McGillis

Summer Blonde

The title calls to mind some sun-dappled Beach Boys idyll, but Adrian Tomine has something very different in mind. ...

By Ian McGillis

Mask

Galerie Amrad African Art Publication's owner Dagan has turned from art books to fiction. These seven short ...

By Margaret Goldik

Larry Volt

The years of late adolescence and early adulthood are a time when nihilism and idealism can walk hand in hand, and ...

By Ian McGillis