Short Stories – A Bookish Type

The Sourdough Compendium, by A.G. Slatter

Trigger warning for interpersonal violence, mutilation, rape, incest, and references to pedophilia. I’ve been a […]

What is it about folk tales that unsettles us so? If you skip past the […]

Before he was the writer and illustrator of the Madeline books, Ludwig Bemelmans was a […]

In Two Nurses, Smoking, David Means presents us with a series of moments, captured by […]

I always felt bad for the Cassandra of Greek myth. She knew what was going […]

Why did no one tell me Alexander Pushkin was funny? Before I read this collection, […]

Once upon a time—or as the story begins here, Long ago and far away—there were […]

Schanoes blends contemporary and historical fiction with a fine layer of folklore-flavored fantasy in Burning […]

Finding an author with a vocabulary as extensive and creative a vocabulary as Eley Williams […]

Trigger warning for brief domestic violence. In one of the stories in Aoko Matsuda’s collection, […]