Imogene is young, beautiful . . . and dead, waiting in the Rosebud Theater one afternoon in 1945. . . . Francis was human once, but now he's an eight-foot-tall locust, and everyone in Calliphora will tremble when they hear him sing...

A new collection of short fiction by the author of The Love of a Good Woman explores the complex mysteries of human relationships and emotions in stories about a housekeeper entering old-maidhood whose life is transformed by two teena...

Mary and O'Neil frequently marveled at how, of all the lives they might have led, they had somehow found this one together. When they met at the Philadelphia high school where they'd come to teach, each had suffered a profound loss th...

A collection of Lewis's complete shorter fiction, including two previously unpublished works, "The Dark Tower" and "The Man Born Blind." Edited and with a Preface by Walter Hooper.

An erotic tale of love, lust, and fantasy in uniform follows the passionate adventures of Kevin Lawson, an Army sergeant with an addiction to sexual adventure; his wife Fancy, a woman confronting the truth about her husband; Emile Pin...

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYPeople • The New York Times Magazine • NPR • Entertainment Weekly • New Yo...

A collection of highly imaginative short pieces that speak to our times with deadly accuracy. Vintage Atwood creativity, intelligence, and humor: think Alias Grace.Margaret Atwood turns to short fiction for the first time since her 2...

Stories from a lost American classic "in the same arena as Alice Munro" (Lydia Davis) "In the field of short fiction, Lucia Berlin is one of America's best kept secrets. That's it. Flat out. No mitigating conditions.&qu...

As the world around it marches forward, the bucolic English village of Notwithstanding remains unchanged. It is, as it always has been, a place of pubs and cricket pitches, where local eccentrics—a retired colonel who has eschewed c...

The stories in Muscle Cars explore the unique and sometimes flawed relationships between men, their families, and their friends. Featuring a diverse cast of inarticulate misfits-including a compulsive body builder obsessed by the deat...

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...

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...

The nine stories in Mothers and Sons examine in depth some of the ways that the bond that is forged--or not--between mothers and their sons is altered, re-formed, or broken forever. In The Master, his fictionalized life of Henry James...

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...