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Home Archive by category Excerpts

Excerpts

The Colonel’s Wife

Rosa Liksom (trans. by Lola Rogers)


“Redshift”

Kathy Chao


“Winter Crane”

S. P. Tenhoff


“The Wound”

Howard Fast


Joan Smokes

Angela Meyer


The Book of Science and Antiquities

Thomas Keneally


The Sacrament

Olaf Olafsson


Africaville

Jeffrey Colvin


“Sleep”

Larry Brown


Christmas in Austin

Benjamin Markovits


In Dependence

Sarah Ladipo Manyika


“In the Ward”

Cheng Yi (trans. Deva Eveland, Remington Gillis, and Yidian Liu)


The Hard Tomorrow

Eleanor Davis


A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant’s Son

Sergio Troncoso


“To the Fordham”

Samuel R. Delany


Mary Toft; Or, The Rabbit Queen

Dexter Palmer


The Captain and the Glory

Dave Eggers


Family Record

Patrick Modiano (transl. Mark Polizzotti)


The Mutations

Jorge Comensal (trans. Charlotte Whittle)


“Prepare Her”

Genevieve Plunkett


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