Fiction Pick of the Week: "A Junket in the City of Lights"
A movie star's press junket notes and observations.
2010s
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Worlds from the Word's End"
A letter outlines the history and eventual decline of human communications.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Sing, Unburied, Sing [Excerpt]"
Southern crimes and nightmares; an excerpt from Ward's latest novel.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "That Dumb Space Movie"
An office Halloween party transforms into a rumination on memories, movies, and sadness.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Dogs Go Wolf"
Under mysterious circumstances, two sisters are abandoned on an island.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Bespoke"
The pros and cons of computerized boyfriend models.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Control Negro"
A professor conducts a lifelong racial experiment.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Extraction"
Two friends reside in the home of a deceased writer.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "For Science"
Reflections on a scientific autopsy and the nature of intimacy.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Everything Is Far From Here"
In a purgatory-like immigration center, a woman awaits the arrival of her son.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Grace"
Illness and identity in a quietly fractured family.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Three Days Later"
A soldier attempts to deliver a death notice.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Chemistry"
After moving back home, a woman reconnects with a childhood crush.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "The Shrimpmonger's House"
A cast of characters move in and out of a shrimpmonger's house; an excerpt from a 1951 novella by a writer dubbed 'The Turkish Chekov.'
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Beneath the Atlas"
A story of maps, travels, and (un)couplings.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Hamlet, Claudia, Zanzibar"
A young mother and child, secluded in an apartment, face dangerous outside forces.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Sex Trade"
An examination of race, sex, and visible secrets.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "The Waitress"
The personal and professional troubles of a Detroit waitress.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "The Book of Joan [Excerpt]"
Transformed bodies on a transformed earth.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Say, She Toy"
A black android faces horrible human racism, sexual assault and realities; NSFW.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Wade Boggs"
A father and son bond over baseball and deceptions.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "What to Do About the Solomons"
In an excerpt from the author's debut novel, LAPD officers search an affluent couple's home.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Signal"
A mystery unfolds in an English mansion.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "The Siege"
The violent history of a city.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Exist West [Excerpt]"
An excerpt from Hamid's latest novel: a man and a woman caught in between escape and uncertainty.
