Armfield, Julia
A collection of short stories that examines women’s place in society as seen through their unique body experiences, including a teenager struggling through puberty and a group of fan girls who disrupt a popular band’s tour.
Arthurs, Alexia
How to Love a Jamaican: Stories
A debut collection by an award-winning writer is set in Jamaica, New York City, and a Midwestern university, where multicultural main characters and their families navigate evolving senses of race, racism, family and tradition.
Chiang, Ted
A long-awaited latest collection by the Arrival-inspiring author of “The Story of Your Life” explores revelatory ideas and second chances in such tales as, “In the Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate,” “Exhalation” and “The Lifecycle of Software Objects.”
Cline, Emma
An anthology of 10 stories by the award-winning author of The Girls includes three original entries and follows a theme of how fateful choices and other disturbances reveal the perversity and violence beneath the surface of everyday life.
Evans, Danielle
The Office of Historical Corrections: A Novella and Stories
The award-winning author of Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self examines race, grief and apology in a history-inspired anthology that complements the title novella with the stories, “Boys Go to Jupiter” and “Richard of York Gave Battle in Vain.”
Krauss, Nicole
The National Book Award finalist explores contemporary gender realities in a collection of short fiction that traces the experiences of diverse characters at various stages of life.
L’Engle, Madeleine
A collection of short stories by the late author of the Newbery Award-winning A Wrinkle in Time draws on L’Engle’s early life, career and faith to convey uplifting messages about the power of hope.
Russell, Karen
Orange World and Other Stories
A latest collection of short fiction by the award-winning author of Swamplandia! includes the title story, in which a desperate new mother strikes a bargain to breastfeed the devil in exchange for his protection over her baby.
Schweblin, Samantha
Stories combining reality with terrifying cruelty feature a mysterious digger, a woman dead on the kitchen floor, a hunt on the steppes, and other tense situations that touch on the line between the supernatural and the everyday.
Scott, Rion Almicar
The World Doesn’t Require You: Stories
This collection of short stories, set in fictional Cross River, Maryland, includes the tales of a struggling musician who is God’s last son and a Ph.D. candidate whose dissertation about a childhood game sparks a riot in a once-segregated town.
Smith, Zadie
The award-winning author of White Teeth presents a first collection of 10 original short stories and selections from her most-lauded pieces as first published in The New Yorker and other prestigious literary magazines.