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by Talia Lakshmi Kolluri
Published Sep 2022
Read ReviewsIn nine stories that span the globe, What We Fed to the Manticore takes readers inside the minds of a full cast of animal narrators to understand the triumphs, heartbreaks, and complexities of the creatures that share our world.
Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century
by Kim Fu
Published Feb 2022
Read ReviewsA dazzling and daring debut story collection by PEN/Hemingway finalist, Kim Fu.
by Gwen E. Kirby
Published Jan 2022
Read ReviewsMargaret Atwood meets Buffy in these funny, warm, and furious stories of women at their breaking points, from Hellenic times to today.
by Ayse Papatya Bucak
Published Aug 2020
Read ReviewsA debut story collection of spectacular imaginative range and lyricism from a Pushcart Prize–winning author.
by Ashleigh Bryant Phillips
Published Jun 2020
Read ReviewsHailed by Lauren Groff as "fully committed to the truth no matter how dark or difficult or complicated it may be," and written with "incantatory crispness," Sleepovers, the debut short story collection by Ashleigh Bryant Phillips.
by Amy Bonnaffons
Published Jan 2020
Read ReviewsFor fans of George Saunders and Karen Russell, an "amazing, wildly inventive" collection of stories that straddles the line between the real and the fantastical.
by Helen DeWitt
Published Oct 2019
Read ReviewsAt last a new book: a baker's dozen of stories all with Helen DeWitt's razor-sharp genius.
Spider Love Song and Other Stories
by Nancy Au
Published Oct 2019
Read ReviewsNancy Au's debut collection is rich with scents, sounds, imaginative leaps, and unexpected angles of vision.
by Deborah Eisenberg
Published Jun 2019
Read ReviewsA much-anticipated collection of brilliantly observant short stories from one of the great American masters of the form.
by James McBride
Published Sep 2018
Read ReviewsExciting new fiction from James McBride, the first since his National Book Award–winning novel The Good Lord Bird.
by Deepak Unnikrishnan
Published Mar 2017
Read ReviewsUntil now, the humanitarian crisis of the so-called "guest workers" of the Gulf has barely been addressed in fiction. With his stunning, mind-altering debut novel Temporary People, Deepak Unnikrishnan delves into their histories, myths, struggles, and triumphs.
by Karen Russell
Published Jul 2011
Read ReviewsFrom the celebrated twenty-nine-year-old author of the everywhere-heralded short-story collection St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves comes a blazingly original debut novel that takes us back to the swamps of the Florida Everglades, and introduces us to Ava Bigtree, an unforgettable young heroine.
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