Reading Ambai’s* collection, A Kitchen in the Corner of the House, is like being a tourist in the lives of … More
Category: short stories
The World Doesn’t Require You, by Rion Amilcar Scott
Rion Amilcar Scott’s story collection, The World Doesn’t Require You, is one of the most astonishingly smart collections I’ve ever … More
A Thousand Beginnings and Endings, by Various Authors
Edited by Ellen Oh and Elsie Chapman, the collection of stories in A Thousand Beginnings and Endings contains fifteen stories … More
The Archive of Alternate Endings, by Lindsey Drager
I don’t know if other readers do this, but I often create a mental tapestry of plots for the books … More
Snow in May, by Kseniya Melnik
It’s a little black-hearted, but I suspect that we read stories about hard luck and bad decisions because they remind … More
Love Medicine, by Louise Erdrich
Trigger warning for rape and suicide. I am continuing my out-of-order dive into Louise Erdrich’s collections of interlinked stories featuring characters on an … More
That Time I Loved You, by Carrianne Leung
Trigger warning for suicide. Years ago, I read Sherwood Anderson’s collection of stories, Winesburg, Ohio. The collection moves from character to character, all residents … More
Mothers, by Chris Power
The short stories in Chris Power’s collection, Mothers, range across the world, from Sweden to Mexico. Though the settings are varied, … More
The Dark Blue Overcoat and Other Stories from the North, edited by Sjón
The stories in The Dark Blue Overcoat are written by authors from every Scandinavian country, including the Faroe Islands. At least … More
Judge Walden: Back in Session, by Peter Murphy
To paraphrase Oliver Wilde, the law is rarely pure and never simple. This is certainly true of the stories in … More
