Literature Frenzy!

The Illusionist or the Prestige. Which do you prefer? For a story packed with exposition and styled like a historical narrative, Eisenheim t...

Demeter and Persephone. Even though I can appreciate Donald Barthelme's bold experimentation in  The New Music, which consists entirely ...

I'm cookin' steaks fah dinnah. I expect you to stay. The Captured Woman is really weird, even by Donald Barthelme standards. Beneat...

  Thorndyke or Holmes? If you've ever wondered what would happen if a charming married couple decided to open a detective agency armed o...

Butter butter butter butter butter butter butter butter Does anyone still read Balzac anymore? Perhaps he's gone out of fashion in the 2...

I've tasted other cocoas. This is the best. Bizarre and disorienting in the best way, Jon by George Saunders isn’t your typical sci-fi ...

Set on the Panawahpskek Nation reserve in Maine, Burn is the opening story in Morgan Talty’s highly acclaimed short story collection, Night...

  Catalonia. The only other work I've read by J.M. Coetzee was Disgrace, but that was ages ago and, honestly, I barely remember anythin...

  "Iceberg, right ahead!" It's a brand new month and that means more Agatha Christie short-stories, courtesy of the reading ev...