Fiction: Special Features

Hailed as a storyteller whose fiction is a glowing work of art (Wall Street Journal), Akhil Sharma is possessed of a narrative voice as hypnotic as...

Robert Coover has been playing by his own rules for more than half a century, earning the 1987 Rea Award for the Short Story as a writer who has ma...

Klaus Merz is one of the most prominent, prolific, and versatile Swiss writers working today. Celebrated as a master of concise, condensed sentence...

Klotsvog is a novel about being Jewish in the Soviet Union and the historical trauma of World War IIand its a novel about the petty dramas and demo...

Tsering Doendrup is one of the most popular and critically acclaimed authors writing in Tibetan today. In a distinct voice rich in black humor and ...

Tsering Doendrup is one of the most popular and critically acclaimed authors writing in Tibetan today. In a distinct voice rich in black humor and ...

Ciccio already has many problems: romantic failure, an older brother who seems intent on breaking the heart of every beautiful woman in Sao Paulo, ...

International Booker-longlisted author Clemens Meyer returns with Dark Satellites, a striking collection of stories about marginal characters in co...

When a woman fails to return from a retreat in Italy, investigative journalist Henning Juul discovers that she never left Oslo and her disappearan...

From a captivating new author come twelve piercing stories, in which young women negotiate friendship and marriage, art and commerce, and the possi...

Winner of the 2014 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction Shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing Named Outst...

Stories and poems about leaving, and being left behind; or that take an unexpected turn, going completely off piste. From authors featured at The S...

Published in the Christmas edition of Charles Dickenss magazine All the Year Round, Mugby Junction is the spellbinding result of a literary collabo...

Consisting of short stories, poems, essays, cartoons and comics, Cawl is an anthology of one multi-prizewinning, funny, angry young man's creative ...

From one of China's foremost authors, Jia Pingwa's Happy Dreams is a powerful depiction of life in industrializing contemporary China, in all its h...