A Sportsman's Notebook, by Ivan Turgenev

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

Underground Women, by Jesse Lee Kercheval

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

I requested this book from Edelweiss purely because of the name. How could I pass up something with the title … More

Reading Ambai’s* collection, A Kitchen in the Corner of the House, is like being a tourist in the lives of … More

Rion Amilcar Scott’s story collection, The World Doesn’t Require You, is one of the most astonishingly smart collections I’ve ever … More

Edited by Ellen Oh and Elsie Chapman, the collection of stories in A Thousand Beginnings and Endings contains fifteen stories … More

I don’t know if other readers do this, but I often create a mental tapestry of plots for the books … More

It’s a little black-hearted, but I suspect that we read stories about hard luck and bad decisions because they remind … More