Canadian Fiction

Fiction / January/February 2023

The Money

January 23, 2023January 20, 2023 - by Lynn Coady

Ever since childhood, words would desert Helen when she got angry—if she felt any kind of strong emotion, really

A man bikes past the brick facade of Toronto's Massey Hall building

Fiction / July/August 2022

Saving Robert Zimmerman

August 5, 2022August 15, 2022 - by Jay Teitel

They saved Bob Dylan. I know, because I was there

Deep red flag flag on flagpoles with yellow stars in front of a cloudy pastel sky

Fiction / September/October 2022

The Gate of Heavenly Peace

July 22, 2022July 22, 2022 - by Yan Xi Li

I hoped my aunt had found peace, even if the revolution hadn’t

Two men, one white and one Black, sit on a couch watching a basketball game on TV

Fiction / July/August 2022

Bro

July 11, 2022July 13, 2022 - by Ian Williams

When he tried to visualize the kind of Black friend he wanted, he could come up with only minor variations of Bro

An illustration of a pink pillow and many bees.

Fiction / June 2022

The Beekeeper

May 25, 2022June 9, 2022 - by Nola Poirier

I don’t know how much longer I can stay locked inside with Mother’s prying oyster eyes and the maddening drone of my father’s beehive

An illustration of a man watching as a city is engulfed by a giant wave.

Fiction / May 2022

The Wave

April 12, 2022May 9, 2022 - by Rawi Hage

I have already determined exactly where the wave will hit and at what time

Three people are grouped at the end of a table while a man, haunted by a ghostly figure, looks on at the other end

Fiction / March/April 2022

The Procedure

March 18, 2022July 8, 2024 - by Caroline Adderson

They left Ketman, whose breathing came now in fishlike gasps. Crepe-soled orderlies brisked back and forth

Books / March/April 2022

Bad Company: A New Novel Strips Away the Veneer of Progressive Rhetoric

February 15, 2022April 30, 2022 - by Irina Dumitrescu

Naben Ruthnum takes on diversity charades, token promotions, and the social justice facades of corporations

Collage of a Chevrolet Impala in red superimposed on a grayscale photo of an empty country road.

December 2021 / Fiction

The Mission

November 30, 2021January 4, 2022 - by Troy Sebastian / Nupqu ʔa·kǂ am̓

Saint Mary’s River coldly wrought the edge of the Mission to the north, blocking its expansion toward the reserve’s hoodoos

An illustration of a house with a white picket fence in front of it but a strom cloud overhead and a rainbow coming out of it.

Fiction / November 2021

Binge on Three Quick Stories by Douglas Coupland

October 13, 2021January 2, 2022 - by Douglas Coupland

New fiction on pandemic isolation, bored border guards, and getting grandkids

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