Alice Munro’s debut collection, newly reissued, demonstrates an artist fully formed from the start
The stories in Dance of the Happy Shades establish many of the characteristics that would come to be associated with Munro's oeuvre.
Violence and hope collide in Vincent Anioke’s eloquent and powerful debut collection
The irony in the volume stretches across stories, a number of which are linked.
Short story month 2024: Returning characters and recycled themes mark an intermittently interesting new collection from Stephen King
The biggest disappointment in this book is its relative lack of creepiness.
Short story month 2024: Shashi Bhat on short stories, autofiction, and her debut collection, Death by a Thousand Cuts
The real, physical world is ever-present in these stories, most particularly in a recurring theme focusing on women's bodies.
Short story month 2024: The struggles of immigrant characters are at the heart of Deepa Rajagopalan’s debut collection
The best stories in the book are less assiduous in cuing their reader as to how to react in any given moment.
Short story month 2024: The peripatetic, restless fiction of Clark Blaise
Characters in Blaise's fiction are constantly on the move.
Short story month 2024: Sara Power navigates the emotional terrain of wives and mothers in her debut collection
A number of these stories focus on military families. But the broader theme is the status of women and their struggle for independence and autonomy.
The characters in Jann Everard’s sensitive and precisely calibrated stories have profound relationships with the natural world
Blue Runaways is the first fiction publication from Stonehewer Books, a new independent press out of Victoria, B.C.
A declarative kitchen-sink realism pairs with themes of yearning and befuddlement in Allison Graves’s debut story collection
These are stories that are honest enough to meet their characters on their own terms.
Canadian writers let loose in an anthology of anonymous sexytimes stories
The stories here are entertaining enough, provocative enough, and spicy enough that their ultimate provenance doesn't really make any difference.