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Granta 118
Granta'The Island', a photo essay by Stacy Kranitz presents a series of shots from Isle de Jean Charles, which is slowly disappearing into the Gulf of Mexico. Shrimp boats lay disused, a child plays alone on a rope swing attached... -
Suddenly, A Knock At the Door
Chatto and WindusEtgar Keret's latest collection of off-kilter short stories bring a welcome sense of playful oddness to a genre that is the perfect vehicle for this sort of nimble invention. With the short form a really interesting writer like Keret can... -
Ladies and Gentlemen
VintageAdam Ross's first work, following his critically acclaimed novel Mr Peanut, is a collection of six short stories: 'Futures', 'The Rest of It', 'The Suicide Room', 'In the Basement', 'When in Rome', 'Middleman' and 'Ladies and Gentleman'. Each story reads... -
What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank
Weidenfeld & NicholsonA new short story collection from Nathan Englander shows him at his funniest and his most poignant. Each story presents some sort of philosophical conundrum that often strikes at the heart of Judaism's take on the modern world. Englander's characters... -
This Isn't the Sort of Thing That Happens To Someone Like You
BloomsburyFavourite of this parish, Jon McGregor, unleashes a superlative collection of themed short stories, set amongst towns, villages, fens - prominent landscapes that imbue his characters with a sense of hardened tenacity, striving for moments of lightness and tenderness. Featuring... -
The Devil's Disciple
Hesperus PressShiro Hamao's pair of gulp-sized short stories, 'The Devil's Disciple' and 'Did He Kill Them?' are published in English for the first time, and the only disappointment is that we cannot reach for more of his work. Hamao was born... -
Married Love
Jonathan CapeFirst, I must admit that I never read short stories. I’d rather become engrossed in a longer novel than have to settle into a new set of characters and a new setting every few pages. But Tessa Hadley’s Married Love... -
We Others
CorsairThere’s something wonderfully off-key about this collection of Pulitzer winner Steven Millhauser’s short stories. Taking in a 30 year survey of his work, it’s fascinating to see that while his style has warped and shifted over time, he has remained... -
In the Orchard, the Swallows
FaberAward-winning short story writer Peter Hobbs is back, this time with a beautiful heart-wrenching short novel set in Pakistan. After fifteen years of brutality in a prison that have marked and tortured him, made him into a broken man with... -
Too Asian Not Asian Enough
Tindal Street PressA new collection of short stories from up-and-coming and established British Asian authors that tries to reconcile the gap between the school of Kureishi and the school of Shamsie. The book's introduction by Kavita Bhanot bravely sets out the message...
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