Alistair MacLeod is the most important chronicler in fiction of the landscape and folkways of Cape Breton to appear on the Canadian literary scene in recent years. Although his creative output is small, consisting of only two thin volumes of short...

Even before Alistair MacLeod's first novel, No Great Mischief, was released in Canada last year, the story of its origins had made its way into the annals of publishing folklore. According to legend, McClelland & Stewart's publisher, Douglas Gibson -- impatient after...

New York. Norton. 2001. v + 434 pages $25.95. ISBN 0-393-05035-1 SOME SENSE of the precise restraint Alistair MacLeod practices in his fiction can be gleaned from the title of this splendid collection and from the fact that the sixteen stories comprising...

In the following essay, Hiscock examines how MacLeod subverts the tenets of literary postmodernism in his fiction with respect to the significance of personal and communal metanarratives and their relation to self-identity.

In the following review, Wood discusses the principal characteristics of MacLeod's fiction in Island: The Complete Stories, contrasting them to the prevailing modes of American short story writing.

In the following interview, MacLeod discusses the appeal of the short story genre, his literary influences, and various aspects of particular stories.