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Darkly funny, searingly honest short stories from Hans Fallada, author of bestselling Alone in Berlin.

Nisi Shawl's steampunk-flavored alternate history of the "Belgian" Congo, Everfair, has taken the science fiction and fantasy world by storm. No surprise there.

Winner of the PEN Center USA West Award for Fiction – a collection of fifty-three interconnected stories by the National Book Award-winning author of Europe Central.

The Collected Stories – a stunning volume of William Trevor's unforgettable short stories.

Winner of the National Book Award. The publication of this extraordinary volume firmly established Flannery O’Connor’s monumental contribution to American fiction.

Internationally acclaimed as a playwright, screenwriter, comic, and sardonic commentator on the endless gaffs, absurdities, and the profound and painful misunderstandings that continue to character

Winner of the 2023 ReLit Award for Short Fiction. Shortlisted for the 2023 Indigenous Voices Awards. Longlisted for the 2023 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction.

From the author of The Mercy Seat and Fire in Beulah comes a new collection of six stories troubled by ghosts that linger in our present moment.

'The Kreutzer Sonata' is the self-lacerating confession of a man consumed by sexual jealousy and eaten up by shame and eventually driven to murder his wife.

With the precision of a surgeon, Peter Stamm cuts to the heart of the fragile and revealing moments of everyday life. They are bankers, students, mothers, or retirees.

Two hundred and twenty tales from medieval Japan-tales that welcome us into a fabulous faraway world populated by saints, scoundrels, ghosts, magical healers, and a vast assortment of deities and d

From the brilliantly unconventional Nicola Barker, the short stories in 'Love Your Enemies' present a loving depiction of the beautiful, the grotesque and the utterly bizarre in the lives

Tales that take you behind the scenes of a powerful New York law firm, from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Partners.

Winner of the Shorts Award for Americana Fiction A debut collection of genre-bending short histories and novellas spanning 16th- through early 20th-century.

Something Special was previously unpublished except in a 1950s anthology and in Japan, and rediscovered after her death. It is the only short story that Iris Murdoch ever wrote for publication.