31 Days of Stories 2026, Day 28: The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
The Things They Carried is described on its title page as "A work of fiction by Tim O'Brien."
31 Days of Stories 2026, Day 27: “Bride” by Julia Elliott
Elliott's story does not contain explicit references to The Name of the Rose but its subject and approach lend itself to the interpretation.
31 Days of Stories 2026, Day 26: “Children of the Corn” by Stephen King
The children of Gatlin are enthralled by a violent version of religion based on sacrifice and bloodshed.
31 Days of Stories 2026, Day 24: “Big Cat” by Louise Erdrich
Erdrich situates one fracture in her central characters' relationship in the wife's snoring.
31 Days of Stories 2026, Day 21: “The Qilin” by Jun’ichirō Tanizaki; Bryan Karetnyk, trans.
Unlike much of Tanizaki's fiction, "The Qilin" does not take place in Japan, but in China.
31 Days of Stories 2026, Day 20: “Schalken the Painter” by Sheridan Le Fanu
The story anticipates Stoker's novel and an entire library of supernatural fiction that follows it.
31 Days of Stories 2026, Day 19: Stories by Helen Garner
This is perhaps Garner's secret weapon as a fiction writer: her resolute refusal to explain.
Dying for a job: In his latest novella, writer Nicholas Binge offers a dark, Lovecraft-inflected vision of late capitalism
What begins mildly enough takes a sharp turn toward cosmic horror about a third of the way through.
Historian Christopher Clark resurfaces a little-known clerical sex scandal that has resonance for today’s culture
Clark stumbled across the documents relating to the scandal some three decades ago.
Reality crash: Journalist Megan Garber’s Screen People examines the ways we are watched and manipulated in a digital media saturated environment
The line between American politics and entertainment has long been blurry and malleable.