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"Yiyun Li's remarkable, defiant work of radical acceptance as she considers the loss of her son James."-- Provided by publisher.

"A grieving mother makes a spreadsheet of everyone she's lost. Elsewhere, a professor develops a troubled intimacy with her hairdresser. And every year, a restless woman receives an email from a strange man twice her age and several states away. In the stories of Wednesday's Chil...

"A propulsive, gripping new novel about fate, art, exploitation, and intimacy by the award-winning author of Where Reasons End"-- Provided by publisher.

"Lilia Liska has shrewdly outlived three husbands, raised five children, and seen the arrival of seventeen grandchildren. Now she has turned her keen attention to the diary of a man named Roland Bouley, with whom she once had an affair--the man who was the father of her daughter ...

A collection of American short stories, originally published in 2008 and selected by editor Alice Sebold, including work by writers such as Joseph Epstein, Alice Fulton, and Kevin Moffett.

"How long is the shadow of a battle, an explosion, a revolution? What stories arise in the wake of devastation? Lindsey Hilsum returns to Rwanda two decades after witnessing the beginning of genocide. Patrick French writes of his great-uncle, a World War I hero who left behind a ...

"Yiyun Li's searing personal story of hospitalizations for depression and thoughts of suicide is interlaced with reflections on the solace and affirmations of life and personhood that Li found in reading the journals, diaries, and fiction of other writers: William Trevor, Katheri...

"Edited by The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman, a celebratory selection from 100 years of short stories in the magazine which has been the most influential and important showcase for the form and has launched dozens of stellar careers in fiction Adichie, Borges, Car...

Presents a collection of short stories originally commissioned by "The New York Times Magazine" as the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world, from twenty-nine authors including Margaret Atwood, Tommy Orange, Edwidge Danticat, and more, in a project inspired by Boccaccio's "The Decame...

"Yiyun Li's remarkable, defiant work of radical acceptance as she considers the loss of her son James"-- Provided by publisher.

"From the acclaimed author of How to Sell-and based on his viral Huffington Post article-comes a deeply intimate, insightful, and at times even funny portrait of the suicidal mind, combining the author's personal experience with a philosophical, literary, and journalistic inquiry...

Since 1915 the Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume's series editor selects notable works from hundreds of periodicals. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the best t...

"From immigration rights to climate change, California has been ground zero for the most crucial questions of our time. In a bravura essay, Rabih Alameddine remembers bartending during the worst years of the AIDS crisis. William T. Vollmann visits the Carr fire and discovers that...

Presents a collection of short stories originally commissioned by "The New York Times Magazine" as the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world, from twenty-nine authors including Margaret Atwood, Tommy Orange, Edwidge Danticat, and more, in a project inspired by Boccaccio's "The Decame...

"What happens when Kafka's idiosyncratic imagination meets some of the greatest literary minds writing in English across the globe today? Find out in this anthology of brand-new Kafka-inspired short stories by prizewinning, bestselling writers"-- Provided by publisher.