Building a Sanctuary

The idea of launching a journal on the short story in English arose in the 1980s, in the context of training candidates for the French national examinations for lycée and collège teachers. At the time, the Critical Reading of a Short Story was the decisive test for the Certificat d’Aptitude au Professorat du Second Degré in France, better known by its initials CAPES. Candidates had four hours to prepare and twenty minutes to present a critical analysis of a short story and answer questions f...