Anthologies & Short Stories

Book SynopsisIn a splendid display of show-and-tell, 26 writers tell a story and lift the curtain to reveal how they did it.

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Book Synopsis"A celebration of literary genius framed by 20th-century tragedy."--Richard Bernstein, New York Times

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Book SynopsisFor readers who love great short-short stories, this bountiful anthology is the best of Latin American and U.S. Latino writers.

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Book SynopsisWinner of the Story Prize Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize Finalist for the National Book Award Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First FictionTrade Review"Reading Daniyal Mueenuddin’s mesmerizing first collection is like watching a game of blackjack, the shrewd players calculating their way beyond their dealt cards in an attempt to beat the dealer…In this labyrinth of power games and exploits, Mueenuddin instills luminous glimmers of longing, loss and, most movingly, unfettered love." -- New York Times Book Review"In Other Rooms, Other Wonders is a collection full of pleasures…on every page there are wonderful, surprising observations and details." -- Washington Post"The eight short stories of Daniyal Mueenuddin’s enchanting debut are dreamlike, illuminating contemporary Pakistan’s societal contradictions in prose as clear and serene as the contradictions themselves are subtle and tumultuous." -- Boston Globe"Like Turgenev…Mueenuddin has an eye for the tragedy and beauty in lives that a lesser writer might regard merely as miserable or eccentric…In recent years, Pakistan has been regarded in the West with anger and horror. Perhaps Mueenuddin’s portrait will help to bring it a different kind of attention, colored with sorrow and even fondness." -- New York Review of Books"Remarkable.… a poignant picture of Punjabi life." -- The Economist"[Mueenuddin’s] crisp, vivid voice glides effortlessly into his various characters’ heads.… Dark stuff, but full of beauty." -- Entertainment Weekly"An elegant stylist with a light touch, Mueenuddin invites the reader to a richly human, wondrous experience." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)"Daniyal Mueenuddin takes us into a sumptuously created world, peopled with characters who are both irresistible and compellingly human. His stories unfold with the authenticity and resolute momentum of timeless classics." -- Manil Suri"A stunning achievement. This superb collection ranges across a vast swath of contemporary Pakistan—from megacities to isolated villages, from feudal landlords to servant girls—and such is its narrative power that I couldn’t stop turning the page. Daniyal Mueenuddin is a writer of enormous ambition, and he has the prodigious talent to match." -- Mohsin Hamid"Daniyal Mueenuddin’s Pakistanis are like Chekhov’s Russians, so fully realized that we never wonder over what motivates them. They are living, breathing presences—sometimes brought so close that, I daresay, you hear the sounds of their breathing and the roll of gravel under their feet. In Other Rooms, Other Wonders brings us a new way of seeing the world, and it is one that we could not have anticipated." -- Elizabeth Evans, author of Carter Clay

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Book Synopsis"One of the finest American writers alive . . . he is Melville + Poe + Borges but with a heart far more capacious."—Junot DíazTrade Review"In the Valley of the Kings does what all great story collections should: it challenges the mind while opening the spirit. Each of these short pieces sets a haunting scenario outside the ordinary realm—men traveling in space, or excavating the tombs of ancient Egyptian kings, or living through an apocalypse. The characters are all faced with mysteries to solve, but it is Terrence Holt’s careful exploration of the loneliness and obsession these men harbor that elevates this book, in all its uniqueness and beauty. Long after a reader finishes these stories, they will be puzzling and thinking and dreaming of the worlds Terrence Holt has created." -- Hannah Tinti, author of The Good Thief

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Book Synopsis“Not only can Fox see, she can hear, she can feel.”—Zadie Smith, Harper’sTrade Review"The unfettered voice found in Fox's wide-ranging personal essays [lingers] in the memory." -- Megan O'Grady "Fox's style is jagged, elliptical at times and even rough. In fact it has a unique expressiveness; an industrial, not a jeweler's diamond, and used for cutting, not display." -- Richard Eder "Leaves the reader with a bolstering sense of having been enriched by a view of the world at once rigorously thoughtful and deeply felt." "What makes News from the World more than the sum of its parts is Fox's voice: astringent (but never cold), unsentimental (but never pitiless), exasperated (but never angry)." -- David Leavitt

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Book SynopsisA Life of Adventure and Delight delivers eight masterful stories from dazzlingly original and critically acclaimed author Akhil Sharma.Trade Review"Focusing exclusively on Indian characters, both in Delhi and in the New York metropolitan area, [Sharma] brings a keen cultural awareness to each of these stories.… [A Life of Adventure and Delight is] perceptive, humane, and pointed." -- New York Times Book Review"[Sharma’s] stories are beautiful, deceptively simple, and potentially dangerous." -- Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sympathizer"What an exciting and original writer this is, and what a knock-out collection." -- David Sedaris, best-selling author of Naked"These stories have a psychological acuity that redeems their dark worldview." -- Kirkus Reviews"Those seeking quiet moments of revelation will find them here." -- Publishers Weekly"A melancholy and at turns tender exploration of the human psyche at its most vulnerable." -- Angel City Review"If you love short story collections, this one’s for you.… Author Akhil Sharma’s characters aren’t perfect—they wrestle with belonging, tradition, and temptation—but they’re heartbreakingly real and relatable, even at their worst." -- HelloGiggles"The stories in Akhil Sharma’s A Life of Adventure and Delight sweep across the page like monsoons—filled with energy, chaos, surprise, and rapture, they ravish and transform the very nature of reading." -- Adam Johnson, National Book Award–winning author of Fortune Smiles"Readers wade into these stories as though stepping into a calm river only to be caught by an undercurrent of the most devastating kind—the demand of everyday existence. Akhil Sharma's words touch the deep experience that often remains wordless. He is truly the Chekhov of our time." -- Yiyun Li, author of Gold Boy, Emerald Girl and The Vagrants"Akhil Sharma’s deceptively simple diction has a way of cutting straight to the human bone. The stories in A Life of Adventure and Delight are revelations, every one." -- Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Empire Falls and Everybody’s Fool

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Book SynopsisNew York Times Book Review Editors’ Pick A Library Journal Best Book of 2018 “Full of joys on every scale.” —NPRTrade Review"[A] shimmering and brilliantly engaged collection." -- Marisa Silver - New York Times Book Review"[Millet is] one of the funniest writers of American fiction, a rival of George Saunders, Paul Beatty, Nell Zink, and Donald Antrim.… You have the sense that Millet could easily bury us in her smartness but has instead cleaved to the characters she’s created and made her humor generously broad. These are accessible fictions." -- New York Magazine"Millet’s great virtue is her negative capability. She inhabits the thoughts of the young and the elderly, of the fortunate and the bereaved, and of deviants and crackpots with equal candor and conversational ease." -- Wall Street Journal"Superb.… The collection is linked through characters that reappear (as relatives, friends, lovers) as the book progresses, showing the ways in which we are living in simultaneous dimensions of pain, betrayal and forgetting. Yet as bleak as their situations may get, there remains a thread of dark humor." -- Los Angeles Times"The tales’ intersections are as intricate as L.A.’s freeways—but, unlike the 405 at rush hour, totally delightful." -- O, The Oprah Magazine"Each new story swerves like a breathtaking drive through L.A., logical yet surprising.… Fight No More takes the connected story model to a pure and higher form, creating a satisfying web that expands one character, one ZIP code, one housing situation at a time, to 13 tales that are each distinct and whole but form something daring in their entirety." -- St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Tracing a landscape of deserts, mountains, sagebrush, and ranches, this story collection evokes life in the contemporary American West. Boyles’s characters are steeped in a sense of connection to place and aware of the precariousness of their environment." -- The New Yorker"Shot through with a nicely fatalist sense of humor, the stories press on the touchy question of just who best speaks for today’s American West—those who, in the pioneer tradition, view it as a realm of independence and opportunity or those who feel called upon to preserve it." -- Sam Sacks - Wall Street Journal"[These 10 stories] offer an unrelenting clarity... This is the real stuff, adulthood at its most complex... Boyles weaves such knowledge deep into her narratives, choosing to end many of them in the middle, in the moment just before the trouble starts. It is a deft and daring choice." -- David L. Ulin - Los Angeles Times"[Site Fidelity] offers a sometimes bleak, often funny and warm look at family and sense of place in the West... [It explores] how people form an ethos of climate justice and care for their communities and natural resources. Boyles often brings a sense of humor to this work, showing how that ethos can manifest itself alongside all the quirks and inconsistencies of the human brain." -- Erin Berger - Outside"[Boyles's] settings exist as characters in their own right, carefully detailed, possessed of complex backstories, and imbued with definite, sometimes dangerous, agency... Site Fidelity bursts with pleasures—not just its lush attention to place but its frequent moments of humor...as well as the delightful frissons of surprise that shiver off the pages each time we catch a reference to a previous story." -- Amy Hassinger - Kenyon Review"Site Fidelity is an impressive collection of stories that exudes kindness and warmth for its characters and a clear passion for its central thesis… [A] solid debut collection by a writer to watch out for." -- Taylor Griggs - Chicago Review of Books"These are tenderly, insightfully-told tales of the hardscrabble lives of women in the present-day West, their families and how nature influences those ties." -- David Steinberg - Albuquerque Journal"If we are to survive, even the next several decades, we need to feminize the myth of the American West…Claire Boyle’s stories do just that, the tenacious, unsinkable women who inhabit them no longer content to sit back and let powerful men of industry make us all extinct. For anyone who loves and grieves the West, who isn’t afraid to open their eyes and see her distress, these beautifully forged stories are as essential as water." -- Pam Houston, author of Deep Creek"In Site Fidelity, Claire Boyles explores her characters’ love for the land with as much care as she evokes the knotty loyalties within families. These masterful short stories are wise, graceful, and as unsparingly beautiful as the sagebrush-scented landscapes they explore." -- Kirstin Valdez Quade, author of The Five Wounds"Site Fidelity pulled me in from the first line and stayed with me long after I’d finished the last. This is one of those rare story collections that manages to be both unsparing and bighearted, brutal and beautiful, intimate and sweeping. Claire Boyles is a marvel, and this book is a triumph." -- Molly Antopol, author of The UnAmericans"Attuned to harsh, western beauty and full of unforgettable, resilient characters, Site Fidelity is a bold and deeply affecting debut collection. Boyles writes with grace, style, and tremendous compassion about family, activism, and the undeniable impact (for better or worse) human beings have on the planet." -- Kimberly King Parsons, National Book Award–longlisted author of Black Light"Site Fidelity is a masterful collection of stories set in the contemporary and complex West…Site fidelity, the tendency to return to a previously occupied location, seems rather fitting—because of its artistry and heft, this is a book I will return to again and again." -- Laura Pritchett, winner of the PEN USA Award for Fiction for Hell’s Bottom, Colorado"Claire Boyles grabs the myth of the American West and reinvents it…Each of her harrowing stories introduces us to a remote landscape where the world has begun to crumble—sometimes literally—and yet the beauty of these places comes through, the hope of the people who live there comes through, due to Boyle’s patient, observant eye. A compassionate, raw, unforgettable collection." -- Leigh Newman, author of Still Points North

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Book SynopsisA Kirkus Reviews Best Short Fiction of 2021 Selection Ghost stories for the digital age by the Booker Prize–longlisted author of The Wall.Trade Review"A smart book, scary as hell, and also a whole lot of fun…[Reality and Other Stories is] as endlessly entertaining as it is legitimately frightening." -- Michael Schaub, NPR.org"Ingenious…[Lanchester's stories] send a shiver down the spine." -- Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal"John Lanchester's collection of tech-y ghost stories seems especially appealing right now...The eight tales in Lanchester's Reality and Other Stories are meant to entertain, to take you out of yourself for a space—and that they deftly do." -- Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air"This intriguing debut collection grapples with technology and its illusion of convenience, choice and escape. Lanchester, a British novelist and journalist, has a sharp eye for social class and setting in his ghost stories for the digital age." -- Vanessa Hua, New York Times Book Review"Brisk, vinegar-sharp satires that horrify and amuse in equal measure." -- Guardian"A mind-bending collection about the multifaceted scariness of the way we live now." -- Times Literary Supplement (UK)"Very clever, very modern 'entertainments.'" -- Financial Times (UK)"Across these immensely enjoyable and varied tales, Lanchester embraces the camp silliness of the gothic sensibility, while also making astute observations about our ever-developing digital reality." -- Booklist

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Book SynopsisLonglisted for The Story Prize A New Yorker Best Book of 2023 • A New York Public Library Best Book of 2023 • The Frontlist, Adam Morgan's Substack, Favorite Book of 2023 • A Publishers Weekly Best Fiction of 2023 • A Best Book of Fall 2023 by Bustle. Trade Review"Vauhini Vara’s stunning and imaginative debut novel, The Immortal King Rao, made quite a splash this year. It garnered rave reviews! It was a finalist for the Center for Fiction’s prestigious First Novel Prize! How exciting for us, then, that her short story collection is coming out in 2023. She’s a writer who packs a punch, and personally, I’m excited to see what magic she can conjure in the condensed form. Although we don’t know much about yet, one thing is certain: it’s something to look forward to." -- Katie Yee - Literary Hub Most Anticipated Books of 2023"Vara’s The Immortal King Rao, a show-stopping novel about a Dalit immigrant who becomes extremely powerful, and about his child, was one of my favorite books that published in 2022, and this story collection promises to be at least as good. I first read a story from this collection, “I, Buffalo,” a decade ago in Tin House. It’s a heartbreaking, somehow very funny story about alcoholism, buffalos, and metamorphosis, one I must have reread a dozen times." -- R.O. Kwon - Electric Literature"Vara illuminates the threads that bind us...Readers are regaled with tales of extinction and de-extinction, death and survival here and elsewhere." -- Hana Rivers - High Country News"Vauhini Vara is on a roll...She’s back with a short-story collection that probes the relationships between people, observing humanity in multiple stages of life with humor and keen awareness." -- Hannah Bee - San Francisco Chronicle"This collection of stories is everything. From girlhood to grief, it explores intimacy, relationships, loss, motherhood, aloneness and alienation. Vara’s writing is emotional, arresting, chilling, surprising and effortlessly radiant." -- Karla Strand - Ms. Magazine"Stories that focus on the sublime and powerful bonds humans forge with one another." -- Jessica Blough, Ajay Orona, and Elizabeth Casillas - Alta Journal"In these tales, Vara has captured the fantasies, griefs and longings of life. From keen-eyed girlhood to delusional middle-age, the characters reach for more than is possible, falter, then reach for more. This Is Salvaged is a book for readers who need clarity and hope—that is to say: everybody. Read it!" -- Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-Winning author of Less is Lost"It takes tremendous courage and wit to look with wonder at the darkest, most shameful places in the human heart and make them hilarious, tender, and deeply moving; Vauhini Vara, with her grand-scale compassion and moral complexity in This is Salvaged, can do this magic with astonishing ease. I've been a fan since I read the story "I, Buffalo" years ago, and am so glad to (finally!) have a collection of Vara's stories in hand to admire and love." -- Lauren Groff, author of Matrix"I finished This is Salvaged and immediately wanted to re-read it. What a ride. Vauhini Vara's writing is immersive, yielding stories that are clever and surprising, heartbreaking and laugh-out-loud funny. A brilliant, deeply satisfying collection." -- Deesha Philyaw, author of The Secret Lives of Church Ladies"The stories in Vauhini Vara's This Is Salvaged are brilliant, entirely human, abidingly strange. She is one of our most inventive writers of fiction, as well as visionary, with a gift for writing about grief both extraordinary and ordinary. This Is Salvaged is unforgettable." -- Elizabeth McCracken, author of The Souvenir Museum"These dazzling stories take a kaleidoscopic and ferociously tender look at loss and what people hold onto or discover in the wake of it. This is Salvaged is frank enough to introduce its characters at their strangest and most vulnerable but is as interested in the aftermath of a breaking point as the break itself, excavating from grief a fragile and honest sense of hope. Vara has written a wholly original, insightful, and powerful collection." -- Danielle Evans, author of The Office of Historical Corrections"A haunting, moving, and wise story collection that leads us to and through the blood-slippery true nature of mourning, commitment, sisterhood, mothering, love, and death, amidst all the strangeness and lostness of the world." -- Sarah Thankam Mathews, author of All This Could Be Different"A poignant collection of stories that glimpse the salvation of human connection in the midst of modern alienation." -- Kirkus (starred review)"Vara invigorates with emotional insights, whimsy, and a precision with language. It’s a remarkable achievement." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)

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Book SynopsisThis searing debut reimagines the American West through linked stories describing a violent rural separatist movement.Trade Review"Devastating … grows increasingly bizarre and haunting until it’s left an indelible mark." -- Janet Maslin - New York Times"A new kind of American Western. This book climbs into the heads of its characters, pokes at their insecurities with a sharpened stick, then reaches out a hand to invite you in." -- Jolie Myers, editor, All Things Considered - NPR"A blazing new and original talent. ... [Loskutoff's stories] vividly expose escalating resentments with extraordinary eloquence and compassion." -- National Book Review"Fans of Cormac McCarthy and Russell Banks will find plenty to like in Loskutoff's fresh voice and keen instincts for drama. ... [T]he language is crisp and often thrilling in its plainspoken eloquence." -- LA Weekly"A ferocious love letter to the forgotten and the scorned, Come West and See is unlike any book you'll read this year. It blazes with soul." -- Matt Gallagher, author of Youngblood and Kaboom"Maxim Loskutoff highlights life on the other side—the disenfranchised, angry, sullen, rebellious, gun-packing side. See them attempt to create a homeland of their own." -- William Kittredge, author of Hole in the Sky"Like postcards from a truthful place, Come West And See holds a mirror up to America—a brutal, ferocious image that carries a beauty unto itself." -- Craig Johnson, author of the Walt Longmire mysteries, basis for the Netflix original series Longmire"Violence waits for its moment in the quietest of lives, and Loskutoff shows us that we had better face it and do our best to understand it. A tough, human work of fiction." -- Tom Bouman, author of Fateful Mornings and Dry Bones in the Valley"The strongest characters in this book are the ones who are most adrift, most ready to latch onto whatever comes next, and this makes them both tragic and dangerous ... If there is a great novel to be written about the life of the 21st century interior northwest, then Maxim Loskutoff is a prime candidate to author it." -- FictionWritersReview.com"At its fiery center, Loskutoff’s humans are caught in brutal personal crossfires: a fraying couple trying to save their injured pet coyote, a woman plotting to murder a tree, a militiaman’s wife who blames his death on her sin of self-pleasure … in Loskutoff’s blade-sharp prose." -- Electric Lit"Perhaps the most tragic aspect of Loskutoff’s characters is that even as they are drawn into the psychological vortex of the Redoubt, they know that the rebellion is futile. . . They have nothing to lose, and so they look for something, anything to believe in." -- Men's Journal"Loskutoff writes a good sentence [and] has a fine eye for the meaningful detail…A welcome arrival." -- Kirkus Reviews

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Book SynopsisA linked short story collection that weaves together the lives of three generations of a Mexican American family bound together by love, and a curseTrade Review"With a delicate and perceptive understanding of humanity and the ties which bind community to history, Rubén Degollado has painted a portrait of sincere love in The Family Izquierdo. This book feels like coming home to a warm embrace, where the characters and land leap off the page and into our hearts." -- Kali Fajardo-Anstine, author of Woman of Light"In The Family Izquierdo, every story is a revelation. Rubén Degollado’s storytelling is as rigorous as it is intricate. Intimate and epic, it brims with magic and spirit. A bold, beautiful debut!" -- Deesha Philyaw, author of The Secret Lives of Church Ladies"[A] rich mosaic of voices that skillfully encapsulates the complexity of family… The novel’s mix of elements — a plot that draws on magic, language steeped in Tejano specificity, deftly rendered insight into the nature of humanity — makes for a thoroughly satisfying read." -- Kawai Strong Washburn - The New York Times Book Review

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Book SynopsisLeo Tolstoy’s short works, like his novels, show readers his narrative genius, keen observation, and historical acumen—albeit on a smaller scale.

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Book SynopsisNine of James’s most important tales, including (new to the second edition) "In the Cage," a tale that engages James’s complicated attitudes toward gender, class, and the rise of information technology.

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Book SynopsisThis collection of nineteen stories includes "Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland," "The Haunted Boy," "The Member of the Wedding," "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe," several early stories, and other important works.

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Book SynopsisA sly debut story collection that conjures the experience of adolescence through the eyes of Chinese American girls growing up in New York City—for readers of Zadie Smith and Helen Oyeyemi.Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize • Winner of the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction • Finalist for the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction AwardNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New Yorker • NPR • O: The Oprah Magazine • The Guardian • Esquire • New York • BuzzFeedA fresh new voice emerges with the arrival of Sour Heart, establishing Jenny Zhang as a frank and subversive interpreter of the immigrant experience in America. Her stories cut across generations and continents, moving from the fraught halls of a public school in Flushing, Queens, to t

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Book Synopsis#1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts presents three of her favorite Irish stories—together in one volume for the first time.SPELLBOUNDA bewitchingly beautiful lady casts a thousand-year love spell on the man of her dreams—and unleashes a nightmare that only true love can conquer...EVER AFTERAn ancient star pendant sends an enchanting woman to an otherwordly land—where she introduces a skeptical stranger to the magical powers of love...IN DREAMSA beautiful young woman is drawn to a castle in the forests of Ireland and becomes the link to a stranger’s past—and the curse that has trapped him forever in the eternity of his own dreams...Spellbound previously appeared in Once Upon a CastleEver After previously appeared in Once Upon a StarIn Dreams previously appeared in Once Upon a Dream 

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Book SynopsisAn outstanding collection chronicling the growth of the american short story from humorous legend to powerful contempory fiction. Contributors include:Washington Irving • Herman Melville • Mark Twain • William Faulkner • John Steinbeck • Eudaro Welty • AND MORE!

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Book SynopsisYou don''t bring your rat to show-and-tell.  You do mouth off to the class bully, but only when you''re safe at home in bed.  These are just some of the lessons to be learned in this hilarious collection of school poems-guaranteed to tickle any kid''s funny bone!

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Book SynopsisA collection of classic Dick and Jane stories in which they play with Sally, Tim, Spot, and Puff, and take a trip with their parents.

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Book SynopsisA collection of classic Dick and Jane stories in which they give and receive help while spending time with Sally, Tim, Spot, Puff, and their parents.

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Book SynopsisA collection of classic Dick and Jane stories in which they play with Sally, Tim, Spot, and Puff, and spy cars, boats, and other interesting objects.

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Book SynopsisA collection of classic Dick and Jane stories in which they run and play with Sally, Spot, and their parents.

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Book SynopsisAn exhilarating debut by a young writer from Pakistan: provocative, funny, disarmingly original stories that upend traditional notions of identity and family, and peer into the vulnerable workings of the human heart.“Emotional, equally hilarious, and gutting. I couldn’t put this book down because I’d been welcomed into the most intimate parts of these characters’ lives.” —Rupi Kaur, author of Milk and HoneyFrom the high-stakes worlds of television and politics to the intimate corridors of home--including the bedroom--these wryly observed, deeply revealing stories look at life in Pakistan with humor, compassion, psychological acuity, and emotional immediacy. Childhood best friends agree to marry in order to keep their sexuality a secret. A young woman with an anxiety disorder discovers the numbing pleasures of an illicit love affair. A radicalized student's preparations for his sister's wedding involve beating up the groom. An actress is forced to grow up fast on the set of her first major tv show, where the real intrigue takes place off-screen. Every story bears witness to the all-too-universal desire to be loved, and what happens when this longing gets pushed to its limits. Are You Enjoying? is a free-spirited, confident, indelible introduction to a galvanizing new talent.

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Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “One of our most inventive purveyors of the form returns with pitch-perfect, genre-bending stories that stare into the abyss of our national character. . . . An exquisite work from a writer whose reach is galactic.”—Oprah Daily   Booker Prize winner George Saunders returns with his first collection of short stories since the New York Times bestseller Tenth of December. ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, Oprah Daily, NPR, Time, USA Today, The Guardian, Esquire, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, Library JournalThe “best short-story writer in English” (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores ideas of power, ethics, and justice and cuts to the very heart of what it means to live in community with our fellow humans. With his trademark prose—wickedly funny, unsentimental, and exquisitely tuned—Saunders continues to challenge and surprise: Here is a collection of prismatic, resonant stories that encompass joy and despair, oppression and revolution, bizarre fantasy and brutal reality.“Love Letter” is a tender missive from grandfather to grandson, in the midst of a dystopian political situation in the (not too distant, all too believable) future, that reminds us of our obligations to our ideals, ourselves, and one another. “Ghoul” is set in a Hell-themed section of an underground amusement park in Colorado and follows the exploits of a lonely, morally complex character named Brian, who comes to question everything he takes for granted about his reality. In “Mother’s Day,” two women who loved the same man come to an existential reckoning in the middle of a hailstorm. In “Elliott Spencer,” our eighty-nine-year-old protagonist finds himself brainwashed, his memory “scraped”—a victim of a scheme in which poor, vulnerable people are reprogrammed and deployed as political protesters. And “My House”—in a mere seven pages—comes to terms with the haunting nature of unfulfilled dreams and the inevitability of decay.Together, these nine subversive, profound, and essential stories coalesce into a case for viewing the world with the same generosity and clear-eyed attention Saunders does, even in the most absurd of circumstances.

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Book SynopsisA new book from Sarah Jessica Parker’s imprint, SJP for Hogarth: Written from behind bars, the unforgettable collection from one of Turkey’s leading politicians and most powerful storytellers.   In this essential collection, Selahattin Demirtaş’s arresting stories capture the voices of ordinary people living through extraordinary times. A cleaning lady is caught up in a violent demonstration on her way to work. A five-year-old girl attempts to escape war-torn Syria with her mother by boat. A suicide bombing shatters a neighborhood in Aleppo. And in the powerful story, 'Seher', a young factory worker is robbed of her dreams in an unimaginable act of violence.   Written with Demirtas’s signature wit, warmth, and humor, and alive with the rhythms of everyday speech, DAWN paints a remarkable portrait of life behind the headlines in Turkey and the Middle East – in all its hardship an

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Book Synopsis“As impeccable as [the] title story is, every entry astonishes” (The New York Times), from the National Jewish Book Award-winning author of A Play for the End of the World Whether in Brooklyn, Kolkata, upstate New York or elsewhere, these characters captured my heart and endure in my memory like loved ones.” —Mia Alvar, author of In the CountryIn the fifteen masterful stories that make up this collection, Jai Chakrabarti crosses continents and cultures to explore what it means to cultivate a family today, across borders, religions, and race.In the title story, a closeted gay man in 1980s Kolkata seeks to have a child with his lover’s wife. An Indian widow, engaged to a Jewish man, struggles to balance her cultural identity with the rituals and traditions of her newfound family. An American musician travels to see his guru for the final time—and makes a promise he cannot keep. A yo

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Book SynopsisSet during the fall-out of the Cultural Revolution, these bizarre and delicate stories capture the collision of the old China of vanished dynasties, with communism and today''s tiger economy.The mad woman on the bridge wears a historical gown which she refuses to take off. In the height of summer she stands madly on the bridge. Until a young female doctor, bewitched by the beauty of the mad woman''s dress, plots to take it from her, with tragic consequences.Trade ReviewWhat i admire most is Su Tong's style ...delicate yet bizarre. His strokes are restrained but merciless. He is a true literary talent. * Anchee Min *Su Tong writes beautiful, dangerous prose. * Meg Wolitzer *For RAISE THE RED LANTERN, 'A remarkable story, subtle and profound' * The New York Times *Sensual and tragic * Sunday Times *Su Tong's evocation of one family's destiny in 1930s China is stark and vivid in the extreme. A chilling and macabre tale, characteristically told with imagination and unflinching honesty * Time Out *

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Book SynopsisA brilliant, far-reaching collection of stories from Washington Irving to John Updike. The Classic Stories Edgar Allan Poe’s Ms. Found in a Bottle Bret Harte’s The Outcasts of Poker Flat Sherwood Anderson’s Death in the Woods Stephen Vincent Benét’s By the Waters of Babylon The Great Writers Melville James Dreiser Faulkner Hemingway SteinbeckMcCullers The Little-Known Masterpieces Edith Wharton’s The DilettanteFinley Peter Dunne’s Mr. Dooley on the Popularity of FiremanCharles M. Flandrau’s A Dead IssueJames Reid Parker’s The Archimandrite’s Niece

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