31 Days of Stories 2026, Day 8: “The Old Woman” by Daniil Kharms; Matvei Yankelevich, trans.
Kharms frequently approaches his fiction by focusing on literature's limits or failings.
A European sensibility infuses the stories in Montreal resident Mikhail Iossel’s latest story collection
Iossel's chosen technique has the paradoxical effect of simultaneously speeding the prose up and slowing it down.
With his new short story collection, Stuart Ross continues in the spirit of underground publishing
Traces of writers as diverse as Daniil Kharms and Jorge Luis Borges are detectable in the collection.