Fiction: Special Features

Unfortunately people and tribes degenerate. They lose their teeth, forget their language, until finally they're bending meekly on the fields and cu...

In the third part of Kamal Ruhayyim's trilogy, Galal, the son of a mixed Jewish/Muslim family returns to Egypt after ten years in Paris. What he fi...

Youssef and Maha are distant relatives who find themselves living together in their native Baghdad, seeking shelter and solace from the increasing ...

Bored by religious instruction and painting lessons, a group of friends at a convent school spend their days dreaming of romance, fashion and the...

A mysterious traveller arrives in Turin for an atypical congress that disturbs the peace of the city while awakening a host of demons. From this en...

The beguiling Woman Gored by Bison Lives is from Douglas Glover's 1991 Governor General Award-nominated story collection, A Guide to Animal Behavio...

Early Weird fiction embraces the supernatural, horror, science fiction, fantasy and the Gothic, and was explored with enthusiasm by many women writ...

Witty, inventive, and profound, Where the Wild Ladies Are is a contemporary feminist retelling of traditional ghost stories by one of Japans most e...

A series of sketches and observations of daily life a crowd gathering in front of shop windows, an old man talking to his grandchild about death, ...

A partisan fighting with the Red Army in Germany comes across a grand, abandoned house, seemingly untouched by the devastation sweeping the country...

It is 1919 in Breslau. The hideously battered bodies of four young sailors are discovered on an island in the River Oder. When Criminal Assistant M...

This gripping novel is as good at describing the magnificent seascapes and the unforgiving elements as it is at examining the inner lives of the be...