Tag Archives: Short Stories (single author)
Vida
by Patricia Engel“Gloriously gifted and alarmingly intelligent, Patricia Engel writes with an almost fable-like intensity. . . . Here, friends, is the debut I have been…
Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys
by Will Self“Self’s satires combine humanity with ingenuity, manifesting a Swiftian obsession with scale, a Kafkaesque fixation with blind alleys and the narrative legerdemain of Jorge…
The Toughest Indian in the World
by Sherman Alexie“Alexie reveals himself to be a more fearless writer than one might ever have imagined; the stories are bold, uncensored, raucous, and sexy.” –Ken Foster, San Francisco Chronicle Book Review…
This Place You Return To Is Home
by Kirsty Gunn“Like Raymond Carver, she sketches scenes from the lives of ordinary, unhappy people with thin but vivid strokes that make the reader pause and…
Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness
by Kenzaburo Oe“[A] remarkable book. . . . Oe is a supremely gifted writer (and fortunate in having found Nathan as a translator.)” –Ivan Gold, The…
Ten Little Indians
by Sherman Alexie“In [Alexie’s] warm, revealing, invitingly roundabout stories, the central figures come in all shapes and sizes, sharing only their wry perspective on Indian life off the reservation. . . . They are affectionate tales of dealings between men and women.” –Janet Maslin, The New York Times…
Tales of the New World
by Sabina MurrayIn her first collection of stories since her PEN/Faulkner-winning The Caprices, Sabina Murray delves into the singular minds of history’s greatest explorers and reimagines…
Sightseeing
by Rattawut Lapcharoensap“Lapcharoensap is a commanding, animated tour guide, and a lot more than that–he can write with the bait and the hook of genuine talent. . . . [He] has a gift for the detail that catches not only his Thai milieu but teenage life everywhere. . . . “Priscilla,” which…
Seconds of Pleasure
by Neil LaBute“LaBute’s usual sleazy suspects are prepared to risk family, love, career, and freedom for the momentary satisfaction of their sometimes brutal desires. It will…
The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa
by Fernando Pessoa“Zenith’s selection [of Pessoa’s writings] is beautifully translated, compact while appropriately diverse, and another of its virtues is that it gives an account of…
