Anne Frank Hiding from the Nazis in the "Secret Annexe" of an old office building in Amsterdam, a thirteen-year-old girl named Anne Frank became a writer. The now famous diary...

Chirta Banerjee DivakaruniA beautiful and poignant, award-winning collection which focuses on immigrants from India caught between two worlds.For the women brought to life in these stories, the possibility of change,...

Author: Colin Dexter "Morse had solved so many mysteries in his life. Was he now, he wondered, beginning to glimpse the solution to the greatest mystery of them all ....

Edited by Irving Howe and Eliezer Greenberg

Banana YoshinotoAlready an international bestseller, "Asleep" comprises three novellas of women bewitched into a spiritual sleep. One, mourning a lost lover, finds herself sleepwalking. Another, who has embarked on a...

Anne FadimanIn At Large and At Small, Anne Fadiman returns to one of her favorite genres, the familiar essay—a beloved and hallowed literary tradition recognized for both its intellectual breadth...

Mary Gaitskill Fierce, raw tales of love and sex and obsession--not since Ethan Canin's Emperor of the Air has there been such excitement surrounding a debut short-story collection.Daisy's valentine --A romantic weekend...

Author: Kurt Vonnegut Before the Golden Age of magazines drew to a close halt a century ago, a young PR man at General Electric sold his first short story to...

Nadine Gordimer This rich story collection will be a reminder to nadine gordimers countless admirers, and a taster for the uninitiated, of her enduring imaginative power a woman gauges the...

James SurowieckiA year ago it would have been difficult to conceive of an anthology of stories soley devoted to corporate malfeasance. Today, the challenge has been to keep it confined...

Michael LernerJewish culture, identity, and spirituality through the eyes of the brightest and best authorsBest Contemporary Jewish Writing is a treasure trove of short stories, poetry, and essays from such...

Aravind AdigaThis is a collection of short stories from the author of the Man Booker Prize winning "White Tiger". Welcome to Kittur, India. Of its 193,432 residents, only 89 declare...