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ALL KIDDING ASIDE

By Jean-Christophe Réhel In Books, Featured Books, and QC Fiction Tagged In All Kidding Aside, Canada, comedy, grief, humour, literary fiction, literature in translation, Mental Health, Montreal, QC Fiction, Quebec, Queer, Schizophrenia, translation, and WORKING CLASS.

SEPTEMBER 2025. FINALIST for the 2025 FOREWORD INDIES PRIZE FOR HUMOUR FINALIST for the 2026 GOVERNOR GENERAL LITERARY AWARD FOR TRANSLATION  Young, queer and stuck, Louis lives in Montreal’s east end with his rap-obsessed schizophrenic brother and their terminally ill father. While working at a Tim Horton’s, Louis dreams of becoming a stand-up comedian. Delivered… Read more »

School for Girls

By Ariane Lessard In Books and QC Fiction Tagged In fiction, literary, literary mystery, literature in translation, QC Fiction, Quebec Fiction, and translation.

A boarding school deep in the forest carries the echoes of its past inhabitants. Hints of a disturbing history and the unfolding events of the present are refracted by the multiple voices of the girls who now live within its walls, their suggestive and enigmatic accounts interweaving in a rich and unsettling chorus. ABOUT THE… Read more »

Vic City Express

By Yannis Tsirbas In Books Tagged In Athens, globalization, Greece, literature in translation, Racism, Vic City Express, and Yannis Tsirbas.

“Vic City Express feels like bungee jumping into a dumpster: thrilling, disgusting, but above all memorable… a novella worthy of the praise that has been heaped upon it.“—Prism International This story could happen anywhere. Today the place is Greece, wracked by a crisis that has pushed people to the brink. Two strangers meet in a… Read more »