I’ll Come Back Once You’re Dead (Henri Duchemin and His Shadows by Emmanual Bove, trans. Alyson Waters)
Emmanuel Bove’s brooding 1928 story collection is populated by vulnerable, desperate, lonely men. [Read More]
Short Stories
The American Uncanny (American Innovations: Stories by Rivka Galchen)
Rivka Galchen’s uncanny collection of stories contains several contemporary, feminist riffs on classic short stories, including Gogol's "The Nose" and Thurber's "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty." [Read More]
All This Was A Long Time Ago (What I Want to Tell Goes Like This: Stories by Matt Rader)
Matt Rader's debut story collection splits its attention between early twentieth century labor disputes and modern-day Vancouver Island. [Read More]
Danish Southern Gothic (Karate Chop by Dorthe Nors)
Danish export Dorthe Nors' first English-language collection recalls Flannery O'Connor at her damned best. [Read More]
Woof! (Bark: Stories by Lorrie Moore)
In Bark: Stories, Lorrie Moore explores the pathos and humor of middle age. [Read More]
Winter Time Had Finally Got Them All (In the Heart of the Heart of the Country by William H. Gass)
NYRB Classics brings back one of the great works of American fiction, In the Heart of the Heart of the Country by William H. Gass. [Read More]
That Situation Being Life Itself (Hall of Small Mammals: Stories by Thomas Pierce)
What beautiful, strange, funny stories you’ll be pleased to find in Thomas Pierce’s superb debut collection Hall of Small Mammals. [Read More]
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