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Labozzetta examines desire, connection, marriage, and ambition in her latest collection of 10 short stories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A series of quests in Tokyo turn out to be related. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Yearnings from East German writer Hilbig (1941-2007). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Brazil-born Lima explores questions of identity, politics, and creativity through a surrealist lens in these short stories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

LaBrie's collection of misanthropic short stories offers meditations on death, dying, grief, and organ donation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

New York City and the wide range of people who call it home are at the center of the 12 stories in Callaro's collection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A debut short-story collection explores themes of sexual predilection, religion, and displacement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Needle's interconnected book of short stories follows two very different young Jewish Americanmen's travels, misadventures, and childhood reminiscences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In Carson's fifth collection of short stories, Northern Ireland is a place that protects and punishes in equal turn. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A dozen paired stories, thematically unified across decades and centuries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From an American original, a posthumous collection that includes short stories old and new. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nash's collection of short stories explores the complications of contemporary society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

These surreal stories reckon with identity, perception, and existence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The angel of death, Washoe the chimp, and T.S. Eliot share the stage in Williams' enchanting collection of 99 short-short stories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Chandler's YA collection of 14 short stories depicts the interactions between humans and dogs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The mundane and the extraordinary mesh into new and fascinating shapes in this debut story collection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Labozzetta examines desire, connection, marriage, and ambition in her latest collection of 10 short stories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Wry and heady short stories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A commanding voice emerges in nine stories from Argentine writer Sosa Villada. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A gutsy, grungy collection centering troubled souls. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Short stories that expose the rages, obsessions, and plights of girls and women. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Manser presents an international travelogue in the form of a series of short stories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Environmental crises drive the characters in West's debut collection of short stories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Queer and mixed-race people challenge boundaries and defy expectations by virtue of their very existence in a story collection infused with the sticky, swampy heat of Florida. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This set of interconnected stories explores the lives of Indigenous characters--all of whom are tortured in some way by romantic grief or confusion--in a range of settings across Canada. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Insight into a Frenchwoman's life from the woman who lived it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Across the main title story and three shorter stories, artist and graphic novelist Koch contemplates nature and relationships via sparse, impressionistic art and laconic narration and dialogue. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Parihar explores the lives of modern men in this short story collection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Mell's story collection spotlights women navigating careers and relationships in New York City. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Geni's second collection of short stories, following two novels, is perhaps her widest-ranging work yet. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nine tales illustrate the absurdities of modern life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Joseph presents a book of short stories looking at the human condition from many perspectives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Williams' compact short-story collection focuses on violence in America. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Three stories offer an intriguing look into the lives of Costa Rican characters--Ticos--as they deal with their roles in their families and society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In Zablah's collection of short stories, men struggle to find affection among family and shattered relationships. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

When a man loses his wife, who's left him and their country behind, he gains an unlikely mission from his father-in-law. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sex, revenge, death, and hidden histories populate a rough landscape in this experimental debut. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In his first collection, Towles sequel-izes his debut novel, Rules of Civility (2011), with a 200-page novella and adds six short fictions involving unlikely encounters and unexpected outcomes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A clever collection of stories exploring fantasy, superstition, and Chicano identity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Set primarily in California, this short-story collection mixes the mundane and the bizarre with an authority stemming from its concrete sense of place. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Parihar explores the lives of modern men in this short story collection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

McKenzie incorporates Eastern philosophical concepts into this assemblage of speculative tales. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Williams, a short-story writer, poet, and medical doctor, relates the lives of boys and men in this posthumously published short-story collection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Joseph presents a book of short stories looking at the human condition from many perspectives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A volume of short stories explores the hidden but explosive nuances of romantic longing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Growick presents a collection of bizarre, illustrated short stories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Beer, the author of The Hampshire Project(2017), combines fictional tales with personal recollections to explore themes of marriage and infidelity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An acclaimed SFF novelist's first short-story collection encourages her characters to talk it out, for good or for ill. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Short stories that explore identity and difference. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In a series of short stories with young boy protagonists, Sommer provides familiar scenarios for kids with positive and potentially motivational outcomes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]