Short Stories

Falling in Love with Hominids opens with the confession, “I didn’t used to like people much.” Author Nalo Hopkinson acknowledges that as a teen she did not have much hope for the human spe

Somewhat unnoticed in the cloud of dust this summer about Harper Lee’s long-delayed Go Set a Watchman, Maria Bloshteyn’s brilliant translations of the earliest Chekhov stories, some of the

“. . . so jarringly poetic and heroic in their raw power you’ll want to read them more than once.”

“Despite its flaws, Bark is an unsettling, poignant, cohesive and extremely well written collection of stories.”

“Molly Antopol is an astute, insightful observer of human relationships . . . a remarkable collection of short stories. . . . In a word: Wow!”

The Christmas Cookie Collection is a compilation of four short stories by Ms. Wilde, three previously published.

Over the past few decades, superheroes, villains, and other characters taken from the pages of comic books have become as much a part of American mythology as Rip Van Winkle, Paul Bunyan, and Johnn

“. . . the proceeds of the purchase will go to a good cause.”

“The Fun Parts is dude lit. For smart people.”

“This is the work of a skilled storyteller—a writer in control of her craft.”

“Mariah K. Young is a new author of great promise. And Masha’allah and Other Stories is a collection worthy of broad notice.”

“Dr. Learst’s rapid-fire collection demands we not look away from the horrors of war but stare long and hard into the carnage.”