Articles tagged "Montreal"

The Zacharias Ascaris Affair (Mag: Articles)

By Nicolas Dickner | April 1, 2011

It all began five years ago, going on six. Ballast Publishing, a fledgling British publishing house, had just launched the first (and last) novel of its catalog, The Zacharias Ascaris Affair. No one, absolutely…...

Translated from French by Lazer Lederhendler bilingual version

Welcome to the Club (Mag: Articles)

By Nadine Bismuth | April 1, 2011

It was a spring evening and Dylane had invited us to her apartment in Rosemont, which she’d bought a few months earlier. It was the first time we were going to see it, so Hélène suggested…...

Translated from French by Alison Strayer

Unagi (Mag: Articles)

By Dominique Fortier | April 1, 2011

On July 16, 2009, a young woman who was dining out with her husband in a Japanese restaurant in downtown Montreal died instantly when a concrete block fell from the front of the building and landed exactly…...

Translated from French by Paloma Vita bilingual version

Dolorès (Mag: Articles)

By Christine Germain | April 1, 2011

The middle of winter In the cold light Icy waltz on the sidewalks of Montreal.   Dolorès is in pain. Wearing her cheap, musty-smelling fur.   Motionless. Her large white cigarette in one…...

Translated from French by Jonathan Kaplansky bilingual version

Gandhi’s Admirer (Mag: Articles)

By Pan Bouyoucas | April 1, 2011

Twelve till midnight. On this Saturday, March 8, he was listening to a recap of the day’s hockey games on the kitchen radio, making a cup of hot chocolate to drink while he watched the film Gandhi,…...

Translated from French by Paul Curtis Daw

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