Granta 131: The map is not the territory by Sigrid Rausing
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Category: Short Stories
Description: This issue of Granta is about the difference between the world as we see it and the world as it actually is, beyond our faulty memories and tired understanding. It's also about the borderlands of politics and reason, and of reality and transcendence, in contested territories. Ludmila Ulits ...Show more
Here (Book 1 of Elsewhere) by Alan Warner
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Category: Short Stories | Series: Elsewhere
Here is about the elsewhere at home. With insightful new work fromTheresa Breslin, Ali Smith, Alasdair Gray and Miguel Syjuco,Here moves between countries and continents, through families and unlikely encounters to find hope and reconciliation. Naked horseback riding. Being on a carousel for 24 hours. ...Show more
What's Important Is Feeling: Stories by Adam Wilson
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Category: Short Stories
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Love Stories: # 1 to 14 by Annie Zaidi
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Category: Short Stories
This is a look at love, straight in the eye, to understand the alluring nature of the beast. 'Curious villagers stopped to stare at this shameless man and woman whose fingers were wound in each other' hair, and whose lips were stretched with impossible smiles, and faces were glowing like warm red wax in ...Show more
McSweeney's Issue 43 by Dave Eggers
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Category: Short Stories
Each issue of the quarterly is completely redesigned. There have been hardcovers and paperbacks, an issue with two spines, an issue with a magnetic binding, an issue that looked like a bundle of junk mail, and an issue that looked like a sweaty human head. McSweeney's has won multiple literary awards, i ...Show more
Metamorphosis by Penelope Lively
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Category: Short Stories
An exquisite selection of the best short stories from one of our best loved writersWry, compassionate, and glittering with wit, Penelope Lively's stories get beneath the everyday to the beating heart of human experience. In intimate stories of growing up and growing old, chance encounters and life-long ...Show more
Help Yourself by Curtis Sittenfeld
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Category: Short Stories
'Nobody else writes with such precison and amusement about the absolute inability of men and women to understand each other' RED MAGAZINESittenfeld's wryly hilarious and insightful new collection, HELP YOURSELF, illuminates human experience and gracefully upends our assumptions about class and race, env ...Show more
Good Citizens Need Not Fear by Maria Reva
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Category: Short Stories
This brilliant, bitingly funny novel-in-stories about extraordinary characters living in a crumbling apartment building heralds the arrival of a major new talent. "Maria Reva is a miracle writer: how else to explain how dark and suffused with light these stories are, how hilarious and very serious, how ...Show more
Why Visit America by Matthew Baker
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Category: Short Stories
Whatever the neighbours insisted would be worth keeping a body for, he always responded that he would still prefer to live as data. A young man breaks the news to his family that he is going to transition from an analogue body to a digital existence. A young woman abducts a child - her own - from a go ...Show more
Daddy by Emma Cline
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Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: very good
The eagerly-awaited new book by Emma Cline, author of the global phenomenon The Girls The stories in Emma Cline's stunning first collection consider the dark corners of human experience, exploring the fault lines of power between men and women, parents and children, past and present. A man travels to hi ...Show more
Dear Ibis by Kate Liston-Mills
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Category: Short Stories
From the author of The Waterfowl Are Drunk! comes a pointed and poignant collection of short stories for the present moment. Dear Ibis is a tender yet unflinching meditation on what it means to feel at home, and what it means to have this taken away. Set in New South Wales' lush South Coast against the ...Show more
The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen
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Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: very good
In The Refugees, Viet Thanh Nguyen gives voice to lives led between two worlds, the adopted homeland and the country of birth. From a young Vietnamese refugee who suffers profound culture shock when he comes to live with two gay men in San Francisco, to a woman whose husband is suffering from dementia a ...Show more