Fiction

House of Sighs

The idyllic and the peculiar merge in Jocelyne Saucier's House of Sighs, the off-kilter imaginary memoirs ...

By X. I. Selene

One Beautiful Day to Come

The translation of Robert Lalonde's important 1986 novel, Une belle journée d'avance, deserves flawless ...

By X. I. Selene

Living Room

Men may never grow up, but little boys certainly do. My son, for example, has just turned three and has already ...

By Joel Yanofsky

Mile End

An obese lady loiters around her shoddy Mile End apartment, getting tipsy, bingeing and watching her famous ...

By Noel Rieder

Love in the Age of Confusion

Of the first 75 pages of Love in the Age of Confusion, playwright and Gazette food critic Byron Anayoglu's ...

By Padma Viswanathan

Rousseau’s Garden

The first thing you should know about Rousseau's Garden is that Ann Charney's second novel is unusually good in ...

By T. F. Rigelhof

Reading Nijinsky

Translator Jonathan Kaplansky has chosen as a title for this tale of translation-gone-wrong Reading Nijinsky. This ...

By X. I. Selene

Gambler’s Fallacy

Judith Cowan, whose first collection of stories, More Than Life Itself, was published in 1994, is a native of Nova ...

By Doug Rollins

A Good Life

A Good Life

In the chill of postmodern reality, this novel should warm some hearts. Written in a conversational prose from a ...

By Mark Heffernan

Plenty of Harm in God

The plot of Plenty of Harm in God is light - not light as in fluffy, but light as in drifting along in the wind, ...

By Byron Rempel

No Early Birds

Some writers make a point of trying out new settings, new perspectives and new themes every time out. These ...

By Ian McGillis

Very Good Butter

Publishers increasingly like to encourage writers to "link" short story collections into narrative or thematic ...

By Ian McGillis