Written in France toward the end of his career, these stories are Chekhov's only attempt at the l...

'Birdsong, wind: here by the ocean every noise was surrounded by silence that reached all the way...

A retired academic is called to a remote university to speak as the replacement for an old friend...

'Mystery Stories' is inhabited by absence: dead friends, past childhoods and ex-lovers. Others, s...

Number nine in our series of Essential Poets, this newly selected, essential collection of Tom Ma...

Three of Chekhov's lesser-known stories, now beautifully rendered into English by novelist David ...

David Helwig's recollection of Tiff Findley dealing with a wayward shaggy dog on stage in the Str...

A collection of unpublished poems by a distinguished poet and novelist.

Warren Thouless, recently retired teacher, long-retired actor, aspiring thinker, stuffed up in a ...

A self-made woman's dramatic sweep through the turmoils of mid-century America and Europe. Jean h...

The best academic doppelgänger story since Nabokov's Pale Fire.

'Duet,' a vivid and comic account of a stubbornly unromantic romance, is the story of Carman, a r...