short fiction
Book Reviews
- Ryunosuke Akutagawa: Mandarins
- fifteen from "the father of the Japanese short story"
- Ambai: A Kitchen in the Corner of the House
- short stories celebrating the lives of Indian women
- Mike Ashley: The Mammoth Book of Historical Detectives
- thirty short stories
- Kjell Askildsen: Everything Like Before
- stories of estrangement and misunderstanding
- Bernardo Atxaga: Obabakoak*
- a metafictional short story collection
- Marcel Aymé: The Man Who Walked through Walls
- surreal realist short stories from 1943 France
- Iain M. Banks: The State of the Art
- short science fiction
- Andrea L. Bell, Yolanda Molina-Gavilán: Cosmos Latinos*
An Anthology of Science Fiction from Latin America and Spain
- Nina Berberova: Billancourt Tales
- stories of Paris' White Russian community around 1930
- Hassan Blasim: The Madman of Freedom Square
- violently macabre stories of modern Iraq
- Ernest Bramah: The Wallet of Kai Lung
- baroque comic tales of a fantastic China
- Mikhail Bulgakov: A Country Doctor's Notebook
- stories of medical work in rural Russia in 1917
- Eileen Chang: Love in a Fallen City
- novellas about women in 1930s Hong Kong and Shanghai
- Ted Chiang: Stories of Your Life and Others*
- big idea science fiction, intelligently handled
- Walter de la Mare: Missing
- three modernist short stories
- Yuri Druzhnikov: Pushkin's Second Wife
And Other Micronovels
- Lord Dunsany: Beyond the Fields We Know
- Greg Egan: Axiomatic*
- hard science fiction stories, drawing on physics, biology, computing
- Dave Eggers: McSweeney's 15
- a special issue on contemporary Icelandic fiction
- Feng Menglong: Stories from a Ming Collection
The Art of the Chinese Storyteller
- Bruce Fulton, Ju-Chan Fulton: The Future of Silence; Wayfarer
Fiction by Korean Women
New Fiction by Korean Women
- Bruce Fulton, Youngmin Kwon: Modern Korean Fiction: An Anthology*
- a superb introduction to 20th century Korean literature
- Bruce Fulton: Waxen Wings
The Acta Koreana Anthology of Short Fiction from Korea
- Houshang Golshiri: Black Parrot, Green Crow*
- short stories from modern Iran
- Radmilla J. Gorup, Nadezda Obradovic: The Prince of Fire*
An Anthology of Contemporary Serbian Short Stories
- Robert Graves: The Shout and Other Stories
- English, Roman, and Majorcan stories
- Camilla Grudova: The Doll's Alphabet
- dark and grimy but strangely uplifting short stories
- Patrick Hanan: Falling in Love
Stories From Ming China
- Stefan Heym: The Queen Against Defoe
And Other Stories
- Ho Anh Thai: Behind the Red Mist
- short fiction set in Vietnam and India
- Jung Mi-Kyung: My Son's Girlfriend
- seven stories from contemporary Korea
- Yung-Hee Kim: Questioning Minds
Short Stories by Modern Korean Women Writers
- Rudyard Kipling: Kipling Stories
Twenty-eight Exciting Tales by the Master Storyteller
- Michael Krüger: Scenes from the Life of a Best-selling Author
- funny short stories about books and writing
- Justine Larbalestier: Daughters of Earth
Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century
- Ursula K. Le Guin, Brian Attebery: The Norton Book of Science Fiction
North American science fiction, 1960-1990
- Ursula K. Le Guin: A Fisherman of the Inland Sea
- eight science fiction short stories
- Ursula K. Le Guin: Always Coming Home*
- fictional ethnography: stories and poetry from a far-future California
- Primo Levi: The Periodic Table**
- stories of a chemist working with elements
- Primo Levi: A Tranquil Star
- realistic and fantastic short stories
- Ling Mengchu: The Lecherous Academician
- four stories from Ming China
- Ma Jian: The Noodle Maker
- dark tales of love and violence in "Open Door" China
- David R. McCann: Azalea: Journal of Korean Literature & Culture
Volume 1: 2008; Volume 8: 2015
- Chris McLeod: The Crying Room
- Mary Anne Mohanraj: Torn Shapes of Desire*
Internet Erotica
- Michael Molasky, Steve Rabson: Southern Exposure
Modern Japanese Literature From Okinawa
- Richard Newnham: Parallel Text German Short Stories
German Short Stories 1; German Short Stories 2; Short Stories in German
- Der Nister: Regrowth
Seven Tales of Jewish Life Before, During, and After Nazi Occupation
- Mari Jose Olaziregi: Strange Language
An Anthology of Basque Short Stories
- István Örkeny: One Minute Stories*
- Hungarian stories "while the soft-boiled egg is boiling"
- Park Wan-Suh: Lonesome You
- short stories about aging and being old
- Norman Erikson Pasaribu: Happy Stories, Mostly
- young, gay Batak students and their mothers
- Georges Perec: Winter Journeys
- an inventive Oulipian medley
- Josep Pla: Salt Water
- stories of the north Catalan coast
- Ian Rankin: A Good Hanging and Other Stories
- twelve Inspector Rebus stories
- Manuel Rivas: Vermeer's Milkmaid*
- superb Galician short stories
- Atef Abu Saif: The Book of Gaza
- ten short stories by writers from Gaza
- Ihara Saikaku: The Life of an Amorous Woman*
- stories of Japan's 17th century Floating World
- Leonardo Sciascia: The Knight and Death*
Three Novellas
- Shen Congwen: Imperfect Paradise*
- short stories paint a portrait of China before the Revolution
- Arya Sura: Once the Buddha Was a Monkey: Jatakamala
- morality tales about lives of the Buddha
- James Tiptree Jr: Her Smoke Rose up Forever**
- dark, powerful science fiction stories about sex and death
- James Tiptree Jr: Meet Me at Infinity
- uncollected science fiction and nonfiction
- Pramoedya Ananta Toer: A Heap of Ashes
- short stories: a writer's life in Indonesian history
- Hebe Uhart: The Scent of Buenos Aires*
- distinctive character-centred short stories
- P.G. Wodehouse: Very Good, Jeeves!
- M. Charlotte Wolf: Great German Short Stories of the Twentieth Century
- early science fiction, Weimar, post-war, and contemporary
- Yi Sang: The Wings
- dark Korean stories of love, sex, and illness
- S. Yizhar: Midnight Convoy and Other Stories
- alfalfa, the 1948 war, and childhood inspiration
- Yevgeny Zamyatin: The Dragon*
Fifteen Stories
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