short stories
What Allegra Goodman’s stories serve up could be called a vision of Jewish American Life Lite.
In this collection, Vincent Czyz’s imagination covers extensive geographic and historical territory, creating maps whose borders are drawn with the vigor of a nuanced moral temperament.
“Heart-work,” Roberta Silman’s new collection of stories, looks at the knotty intricacies of domestic life.
In his short stories, Michael Glenn has a physician’s eye for detail and a psychologist’s insight into the way we think and what motivates us.
Ludmila Ulitskaya’s stories are fatalistic in spirit, but not morose.
A fairly strong showing for Ann Beattie. Readers who know Charlottesville will probably have a ball with this collection of short stories, which spotlight the town’s upscale, professional residents.
In The Flounder, John Fulton is clearly at the top of his game. His prose has that rare thing — a sense of intimacy.
These are compelling stories about the trials and tribulations of dynamic, working-class characters.
Many of the short stories in Two Nurses, Smoking are genuinely accomplished, and worth investigating.
You come away from this volume of short stories thinking that sure, Maggie Shipstead does write what she knows — it’s just that she may know everything.
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