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Ten Outstanding Short Stories to Read in 2022
Longtime contributor Pravesh Bhardwaj read and shared 276 short stories on the #longreads Twitter hashtag in 2021. Here are his favorites.
How Twitter Can Ruin a Life
Isabel Fall’s story has been held up as an example of “cancel culture run amok.”
Ten Outstanding Short Stories to Read in 2021
Pravesh Bhardwaj read and and shared 304 short stories on the #longreads Twitter hashtag in 2020. Here are his favorites.
10 Outstanding Short Stories to Read in 2020
Stories by Edwidge Danticat, Etgar Keret, Valeria Luiselli, and more.
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“The whiteboy said there was nothing left for me in Houston, he said that I didn’t have to punish myself, and he said my name, my actual name.”
10 Outstanding Short Stories to Read in 2019
Stories by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Min Jin Lee, and Saul Bellow.
The Haväng Dolmen
A trip to a Swedish stone-age burial site gives an archaeologist too close a look at death.
Of Politics and Prose
Roxane Gay writes about the necessary and inevitable influence of politics on literature at this fraught time in history.
What Does a Political Story Look Like in 2018?
An essay in which Roxane Gay reveals how she chose the short stories for inclusion in Best American Short Stories 2018 — with an eye toward writing that engaged with the political in thoughtful, engaging, diverse and inclusive ways.