Challenging and exquisite, the short stories of "Domestic Affairs" demand to be met on their own terms. Daniel M. Jaffe’s charming short story collection "Domestic Affairs" depicts tender and erotic relationships between men in a... Read More

Joe Baumann’s "Where Can I Take You When There’s Nowhere To Go" collects surrealist short stories with grotesque physical manifestations of people’s emotional lives at their centers. Predicated on extended metaphors, their effects... Read More

In Garnett Kilberg Cohen’s expansive short story collection, some form of craving—either literal or metaphysical—factors into every person’s tale. A woman who craved olives as a child is forever cursed to flashback through the... Read More

"Blessed Hands" is an engaging short story collection that’s filled with glimpses into the lives of those whose voices are not often heard. Translated from Yiddish, Frume Halpern’s short story collection "Blessed Hands" captures... Read More

Octavia Cade’s "You Are My Sunshine" collects eighteen stories that cast a speculative eye on the future, seen through an ecological lens. Ecological themes carry throughout the book, which also integrates elements of horror. In “We... Read More

Elegant and arresting, the eleven modern fables in Paola Ferrante’s Her Body among Animals thrum with a desperate, racing pulse as they capture the everyday horrors women live with and the sacrifices—of personhood, opportunity, and... Read More

In the inventive short stories of JoeAnn Hart’s Hudson Prize-winning collection "Highwire Act", people face catastrophes and discover connections with animals. Some of the stories are set in the real world; others occupy a speculative... Read More

In the short stories of Maria Judite de Carvalho’s collection "So Many People, Mariana", people search in vain for contentment and belonging. With all the human beings in the world, it should be impossible to ever feel isolated or... Read More