An NYRB Classics Original  Tove Jansson was a master of brevity, unfolding worlds at a touch. Her art flourished in small settings, as can be seen in her bestselling novel The Summer Book and in her internationally celebrated cartoon...

A collection of fifteen stories, eleven of which have never been previously published, from the early career of bestselling American master Elmore Leonard.Over his long and illustrious career, Elmore Leonard was recognized as one of t...

The stories are convincingly imagined and interestingly told, with sudden shifts in time that would stop the narrative flow of a novel but which this less linear hybrid happily accommodates....Moving, hard, lucid, [these stories] thro...

"[Blandings] is an entire world unto itself and, one senses, Wodehouse pours into it his deepest feelings for England."—Stephen FryThe Honourable Galahad Threepwood has decided to write his memoir—a tell-all that could d...

This picture-book biography tells the story of Crazy Horse, the famous Native American hero. When Crazy Horse was a young boy, he was called Curly, because of his curly black hair. He was always considered a good, strong leader by his...

A single-volume collection of the National Book Award-winning novelist, essayist, and political commentator's short fiction pieces, written in the 1940s and 1950s, includes 'Three Strategems,' 'The Zenner Trophy,' and the previously u...

As they exist, new stories and old, these seem as perfect, and as functional for all their beauty, as spider webs. Indeed they were made for a like purpose: to trap and dissect living morsels in the form of palpitating moments of time...

From Andre Aciman,the author of Call Me by Your Name (now a major motion picture) comes "a sensory masterclass, absorbing, intelligent, unforgettable" (Times Literary Supplement).Enigma Variations charts the life of a man na...

Nominated for a National Book Award, this fresh and stunning collection of stories takes the reader deep into the heart of the most alarming and joyful human relationships.

Kevin Brockmeier--award -winning author of The Brief History of the Dead--has been widely praised for the richness of his imagination, the lyrical grace and playfulness of his language, and the empathic emotional complexity of his sto...

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year From a genuine hero of the American short story comes a luminous collection that reveals the seams of hurt, courage, and tenderness that run through the bedrock of contemporary American life. ...

A New York Times Notable Book of the YearAn NPR Best Book of the YearThe award-winning author of The Past once again "crystallizes the atmosphere of ordinary life in prose somehow miraculous and natural" (Washington Post), i...

Ian McEwan's Somerset Maugham Award-winning collection First Love, Last Rites brought him instant recognition as one of the most influential voices writing in England today. Taut, brooding, and densely atmospheric, these stories show ...

One of the most critically acclaimed books of the year from a master of the short story. One of the most celebrated new writers of the last decade returns with an extraordinary collection of stories demonstrating the emotional power ...

The Three Stories that Inspired the MovieWith a foreword by Pedro AlmodóvarAlice Munro is cherished for her exquisite, affecting meditations on the human heart. In these three linked stories, “Chance,” “Soon,” and “Silence...

A new collection of short fiction by the critically acclaimed author of Crackpots presents a series of interconnected tales that explore the world of men and women whose lives have been transformed and shaped by the Vietnam war, child...

Bestselling author Indu Sundaresan presents a candid and stunning collection of stories about contemporary Indians and the cutting-edge issues surrounding them -- where ancient tradition and modernity can often clash.A young woman who...

This startling, far-reaching book captures the tumult, ambition,hardship, and serenity that mark today's India. Theroux's Westernersrisk venturing far beyond the subcontinent's well-worn paths todiscover woe or truth or peace. A middl...

Acorna's people, the Linyaari, have begun reclaiming their homeworld from the ravages of the brutal Khleevi. But the first wave of explorers has unlocked a larger mystery about the origins of the Linyaari -- one that has led Aari, Aco...

Now in a mass-market paperback premium edition—the instant #1 New York Times bestseller! Stephen King delivers an "outstanding" (USA TODAY) collection of stories, featuring revelatory autobiographical comments on when, why...

A collection of seventeen stories, spanning the author's entire career, journeys to an imaginative new world in which sleep is illegal, explores the pain of owning a new dog, and visits an island of diamonds where the rich wear jewelr...

A young Algerian, Meursault, afflicted with a sort of aimless inertia, becomes embroiled in the petty intrigues of a local pimp and, somewhat inexplicably, ends up killing a man. Once he's imprisoned and eventually brought to trial, h...

In this first collection, the recipient of numerous awards, Chaon has written 13 wonderfully deft stories detailing the almost panicked angst of the American generation now approaching 30. Like the families he explored in 'Among the M...

The six stories in Haruki Murakami's mesmerizing collection are set at the time of the catastrophic 1995 Kobe earthquake, when Japan became brutally aware of the fragility of its daily existence. But the upheavals that afflict Murakam...

Each individual tells his or her own story about coming to the United States, coming to the garden, and coming to a sense of community, in voices that have immediacy and strength.

Collected in one volume-and on audio-for the first time, The Unremarkable Heart and Other Stories features bestselling author Karin Slaughter at her best: dark, provocative explorations of love, death, and the secrets we keep. This ex...

The night Laura Shane was born, a stranger accompanied by a storm appeared in Santa Ana, California. Without his help, Laura might not have survived the difficult birth that killed her mother. He disappeared as quickly as he came only...

In New York City in the late '90s, a 17-year-old girl heads off to her private school even though she has a cold. By art class her nose is gushing mucus and she's severely disoriented. Within seconds, it seems, she's in convulsions an...

The author writes: FRANNY came out in The New Yorker in 1955, and was swiftly followed, in 1957 by ZOOEY. Both stories are early, critical entries in a narrative series I'm doing about a family of settlers in twentieth-century New Yor...

As this complete collection of her short stories demonstrates, Parker's talents extended far beyond brash one-liners and clever rhymes. Her stories not only bring to life the urban milieu that was her bailiwick but lay bare the uncert...