Best Short Fiction of 2017

by Jenny Diski

Regal, raunchy, revealing—the stories in this collection leave a lasting impression. Full review >

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by Lesley Nneka Arimah

Heralds a new voice with certain staying power. Full review >

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by Carmen Maria Machado

An exceptional and pungently inventive first book. Full review >

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by Emily Fridlund

Bracing, often brilliant stories deliver a shock to the routine narratives we tell. Full review >

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by Osama Alomar ; translated by C.J. Collins

Swamps and streams, lightning and dogs all play a part in these beguiling, suggestive fables. The stories are of perfect... Full review >

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by Jeffrey Eugenides

Sprightly or serious, Eugenides consistently writes about complex lives with depth and compassion. Full review >

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by Suzanne Burns

Burns is an unmissable heir to writers of the peculiar, from Shirley Jackson to Roald Dahl. Full review >

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by Samantha Hunt

Grab your comforter and a flashlight for this tour de force collection from one of our most inventive storytellers. Full review >

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by James McBride

McBride emerges here as a master of what some might call “wisdom fiction,” common to both The Twilight Zone and Bernard... Full review >

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by Viet Thanh Nguyen

Nguyen is the foremost literary interpreter of the Vietnamese experience in America, to be sure. But his stories, excellent... Full review >

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by Elizabeth Strout

Another powerful examination of painfully human ambiguities and ambivalences—this gifted writer just keeps getting better. Full review >

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by Deb Olin Unferth

Chock-full of emotional insight and comic verve, Unferth’s beguiling stories are not to be missed. Full review >

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by Deepak Unnikrishnan

An enchanting, unparalleled anthem of displacement and repatriation. Full review >

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