On the Outsize Power of the Short Story (AKA the Genre of “High Genius”)

On the Outsize Power of the Short Story (AKA the Genre of “High Genius”)

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“The Cat Thief” by Son Bo-mi, Translated by Janet Hong

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H. B. Marriott-Watson, “Devil of the Marsh” (1893)

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“Insert Coin”

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Emrys Donaldson

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Read the Winners of <em>American Short Fiction</em>’s 2022 Insider Prize, Selected by Lauren Hough

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Italo Svevo (trans. by Frederika Randall)

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