The Captain’s Daughter: Essential Stories, by Alexander Pushkin

Why did no one tell me Alexander Pushkin was funny? Before I read this collection, The Captain’s Daughter: Essential Stories … More

Honeycomb, by Joanne M. Harris

Once upon a time—or as the story begins here, Long ago and far away—there were the Silken Folk. Normal humans … More

Schanoes blends contemporary and historical fiction with a fine layer of folklore-flavored fantasy in Burning Girls and Other Stories. These … More

Finding an author with a vocabulary as extensive and creative a vocabulary as Eley Williams is a treat. That vocabulary … More

Trigger warning for brief domestic violence. In one of the stories in Aoko Matsuda’s collection, Where the Wild Things Are … More

Technically, the apartment block at 1933 Ivansk Street, in Kirovka, Ukraine, does not exist. The building was made of leftover … More

A Sportsman’s Notebook (also called A Sportsman’s Sketches) contains short vignettes and stories by Ivan Turgenev, written in the 1850s … More

In the author’s note at the end of Underground Women, Jesse Lee Kercheval explains that some of the stories in … More

All of the linked stories in Christine Coulson’s Metropolitan Stories are set at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, featuring … More

Years and years ago, when I was in high school, my English teacher assigned Winesburg, Ohio, by Sherwood Anderson. After … More