Best Short Fiction of 2018

by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Corrosive dispatches from the divided heart of America. Full review >

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by Andrés Barba ; translated by Lisa Dillman

A gorgeous, fully realized collection in which each novella can be appreciated on its own as well as in concert with the... Full review >

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by Lucia Berlin

No dead author is more alive on the page than Berlin: funny, dark, and so in love with the world. Full review >

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by Chaya Bhuvaneswar

An exuberant collection. Full review >

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by Jamel Brinkley

A major talent. Full review >

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by Deborah Eisenberg

These brilliant stories invoke the desire for something other than what you've been given, which applies to us as much as to... Full review >

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by Lauren Groff

A literary tour de force of precariousness set in a blistering place, a state shaped like a gun. Full review >

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by JM Holmes

The publisher says Holmes is working on his first novel. This collection makes you thirst for whatever’s coming next. Full review >

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by Denis Johnson

American literature suffered a serious loss with Johnson's death. These final stories underscore what we'll miss. Full review >

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by Taeko Kono ; translated by Lucy North

Kono should be an electrifying discovery for English-speaking lovers of short fiction. Full review >

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by Sabrina Orah Mark

Stories in which laughter is sometimes the only response to sorrow, beauty is strange, and love is fierce and unending. A... Full review >

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by Nafissa Thompson-Spires

In an era when writers of color are broadening the space in which class and culture as well as race are examined,... Full review >

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by William Trevor

As always, Trevor navigates the rough seas of human relations with a new angle, fresh language, deep sympathy, and uncanny... Full review >

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