short stories
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Tropes and Ghosts of Christmas Stories
The tradition of reading Christmas stories of ghosts continues this year with ‘Chill Tidings’, a collection of 14 stories from the archives of the British…
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Spanish Literature in 4 Voices
Looking to explore Spanish literature beyond the well-known names? Here are 4 authors who each offer a different view of postwar Spain and life’s quiet…
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Love, Loss and Winter in the Air
Sylvia Townsend Warner’s 1938 collection Winter in the Air is the perfect book to pick up at the turn of season.
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East of the West & English Bulgarian
‘East of the West’ is Miroslav Penkov’s 2011 debut collection of short stories, lived in Bulgaria and written in English.
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Other Worlds, Same Hauntings
Nadezhda Teffi’s anthology of short stories ‘Other Worlds’ has opened my eyes to a hidden gem of Russian literature.
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Great Italian Short Stories
If there’s something which sets Italian short stories apart from other literatures of the world it’s this: they burn with a barely contained fire.
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Creature and Creation in ‘Frankenstein’ and 19th Century Horror
‘Frankenstein’, ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’ and ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’. True terror can only lie in classic 19th century horror.
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Katherine Mansfield – Something Hidden, Something Dark
How the dark and violent details of Katherine Mansfield’s short stories are hiding sparks of life.
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Katherine Mansfield Risks Everything
Awarenes of Katherine Mansfield’s personal rebellion and pursuit of freedom enhances the appreciation of her famous story The Garden Party
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Mircea Cărtărescu’s “Nostalgia”
“I will write not to construct a story, but to exorcise an obsession” (Mircea Cărtărescu, ‘The Twins’, one of the stories in ‘Nostalgia’)
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Romanian, my mother tongue
English, the language I don’t even consider foreign
German, the language of my adoptive country and still very foreign for me
Over three languages, I am here to to connect with fellow readers like you.
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