5) “Aye, And Gomorrah” by Samuel R. Delany. Let’s just get this out of the way right off the bat: The whole story collection Dangerous Visions remains required reading even after nearly 50 ...

Break It Down, by Lydia Davis. Davis is a master of the very short story, and the collection that made her name, Break It Down, includes such works as the four-sentence “What She Knew,” where ...

Little action takes place in Caio Fernando Abreu’s short story collection Moldy Strawberries (Archipelago Books, 2022). But there are many rooms. In these rooms, two queer lovers negotiate the ...

In fact, the story was published in 2002 — a lesson that our current sense of things falling apart is, after all, nothing very new. Throughout To Be a Man , Krauss’s writing is as lyrical as ...