Over the past fifty years, readers in the English-speaking world have come to wide agreement that Mavis Gallant is one of the twentieth century’s finest writers of short fiction. But what readers have ...

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W hen I was a kid, I would play ball hockey on our dirt road and celebrate a goal—hands raised, pretending to throw gloves in the air—as if I had won the Stanley Cup in overtime. My team was imagined, ...