In her debut collection, Jocelyn Nicole Johnson doesn’t shy away from any topic as she calmly delivers a ruthless kind of truth.
As in John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, the characters in Gordo are often poor in economic terms but lead richly complex lives.
These nine beautifully brash, interconnected stories are filled with feisty, flawed characters living in central California.
On every page of The Tangleroot Palace, women have the power to take their own stories back and remake them into something resilient and new.
María Ospina outdoes herself in every story of this collection, and each time, the message is profound and vital.
In Brandon Taylor’s short story collection, sexual tension acts like an undertow, lurking to pull its victims down below.
Don’t listen to the audiobook of Jen Spyra’s story collection anywhere it’s not socially acceptable to laugh out loud.
With the ease of a master, Nana Nkweti shifts between points of view, between American and African slang, and between the straightforward and the avant-garde.
Kim’s prose is always oh-so-gorgeous, even when it’s exploring complex ideas about space travel and philosophical and metaphysical riddles.
You can’t have a conversation about literary fiction of the past 50 years without mentioning Haruki Murakami, and First Person Singular reminds us why.
Grief, loss and the passage of time run through these stories, but so does humor, both the wry and laugh-out-loud varieties.
Throughout 11 short stories, Dantiel W. Moniz weaves tales that are as profound as they are unnerving, as moving as they are surprising.
Beloved author George Saunders teaches the masters in his new book, sharing invaluable insights into classic Russian short stories.
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