The intrigue runs very deep. No one knows whether gods or mortals are behind the power games in Oolsmouth, but the strange doings place Max, the Great Kar...

Will Maximillian the Vaguely Disreputable give magic to the masses? Will the Creeping Sword find out who he really is? Will the warring factions of the go...

In his introduction to this one hundredth volume of the belovedBest American Short Stories, guest editor T. C. Boyle writes, "The Model T gave way to the ...

The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume's series editor selects notable...

“Bathhouse” (1929) and “The Bedbug” (1928) are Mayakovsky’s most interesting satirical plays. The genre of these comedies is difficult to define - so origina...

The editors of the nation’s two leading journals on foreign policy were asked to examine the nature of the post-cold war world and America’s transitional ...

At an old manor house on a remote Scottish island, six managers of a large corporation arrive for a week-long stay. Within days they will all suffer horri...

Here in one marvellous volume, is the cream of erotic writing from all the corners of the globe. Maxim Jakubowski has gathered together unexpurgated delig...

Winner of the 2010 Drue Heinz Literature Prize.The Physics of Imaginary Objects, in fifteen stories and a novella, offers a very different kind of short f...

What would you say if your boss was the same person who, by your grace, ended up in the hospital? But, as it turned out, he will not take revenge on you beca...

Everything seemed to be fine in the life of the beautiful, successful Elizabeth. She cannot imagine life outside the noisy, vibrant events and entertainment ...

Dumped in the mountains.Left for dead… by the man she loved.Alice knew her husband didn’t love her very much, but she never realized he actually hated her...