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Martha's Daughter

by Xenia Dunford

David Haynes’s complex short story collection Martha’s Daughter is about the everyday situations and relationships of working-class Black Americans. Set in the metropolitan flatlands of Missouri, the stories are imbued with the... Read More

Book Review

You've Told Me Before

by Yelena Furman

Well-to-do but emotionally adrift East Coasters grapple with unsatisfying marriages, generational divides, and family secrets in Jennifer Anne Moses’s short story collection You’ve Told Me Before. In one story, a seventy-year-old... Read More

Book Review

Tamiami Trail

by Elaine Chiew

In Jennifer Bannan’s lush short story collection "Tamiami Trail", cypresses and Spanish moss evoke the Everglades. While centered on Miami, Monroe Station and the Tamiami Trail function as a mythical loci from which spores of... Read More

Book Review

The Life of Violet

by Bella Moses

The interconnected early stories in Virginia Woolf’s "The Life of Violet" have radical perspectives on women’s friendships, independence, and places in society. Violet, a giantess inspired by Woolf’s lifelong friend Violet... Read More

Book Review

Fragmentations

by N.T. McQueen

Embracing the mysteries of being human, "Fragmentations" is a surreal and evocative short story collection. Isabella Falconeri’s artful story collection "Fragmentations" explores the human condition through brief, dreamy sequences.... Read More

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