The characters of Rabin’s gratifying short story collection share roots in a harried culture. Rabin’s hyperrealistic short story collection "I Only Make Love in Montréal" depicts Caribbean life and the impacts of the absence of... Read More

Otherworldliness informs the eighteen stories of Julian Mortimer Smith’s "The World of Dew and Other Stories", which range from traditional science fiction to speculative fiction, and from flash fiction to long-form short stories,... Read More

Blending the ancestral and the modern, the religious and the secular, the stories of "Eat the Mouth That Feeds You" come together to create something transcendent. Women and women’s bodies are centered throughout the collection.... Read More

Norwegian author Kjell Askildsen’s story collection "Everything Like Before" delves into tales of marital unhappiness, conflicts between parents and children, and the struggles of the elderly. In the collection’s thirty-six stories,... Read More

Ethan Rutherford’s "Farthest South" is a spooky, sweet, wondrous short story collection. Rutherford’s stories possess undeniable darkness, and his collection maintains suspense throughout. But the thread that connects the stories is... Read More

Whitney Collins’s layered short story collection "Big Bad" concerns the dark impulses that lurk within. In the ingenious cautionary tale “Big Bad,” a woman gives birth to progressively wiser iterations of herself. In the... Read More

In the humorous stories of "F*cking Argentina and 10 More Tales of Exasperation", little, and big, points of annoyance direct the action. Life has a way of getting in the way in Gregg Greenberg’s short story collection F*cking... Read More

In the late nineteenth century, the animal story, a new genre of nature writing, was both popular and controversial. These weren’t cutesy tales of talking deer spinning allegories or anthropomorphized, besuited grizzly bears ready to... Read More