Fiction: Special Features

The civil servant Ivan Matveich and his wife Yelena Ivanovna are spectators of an exhibition in a shopping arcade of a crocodile owned by a Germa...

In The Death of a Civil Servant, an administrative clerk accidentally sneezes on a hierarchical superior at the opera, which results in great embar...

Delicate and assured, the stories in My Escapee illuminate unseen forces in womens lives: the shameful thought, the stifled hope, the subterranean ...

The world of Tell Everyone I Said Hi is geographically small but far from provincial in its portrayal of emotionally complicated lives. With all th...

The seven stories that compose Regrowth (Vidervuks) might shock readers familiar with accounts of the Holocaust marked by mournful and sentimental ...

Allegra Hydes debut story collection, Of This New World, offers a menagerie of utopias: real, imagined, and lost. Starting with the Garden of Eden ...

Eighty-five stories by one of Canadas greatest writers are collected in this four-volume anthology. Several pieces of Morley Callaghans short ficti...

Eighty-five stories by one of Canadas greatest writers are collected in this four-volume anthology. Several pieces of Morley Callaghans short ficti...

Subversive, edgy, and wildly entertaining, this short story collection is a unique encounter with fiction in Leon Rookes characteristic style as he...

IN THE BEGINNING goes back to the poet's life before her arrest, interweaving her experiences of growing up in Odessa with those of her childhood f...

An affectionate satire of the culture of self-indulgence, The Final Days of Great American Shopping exposes the American obsessions with money, mas...