America's most talented storytellers share their most courageous, compelling, unputdownable work in a collection made for story lovers. Praised early on by Bill

Nagai Kafu is one of the greatest modern Japanese writers, but until now his classic collection, American Stories, based on his sojourn from Japan to Washington

In New American Stories, the beautiful, the strange, the melancholy, and the sublime all comingle to show the vast range of the American short story . In this r

This volume offers a survey of American short fiction in 59 tales that combine classic works with 'different, unexpected gems', which invite readers to explore

Explore America's rich and complex past in this accessible presentation of American history Using a streamlined and powerful narrative, the authors take readers