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Robert A. Heinlein’s short story “All You Zombies—” (1959) is a science fiction masterpiece dealing with deterministic time travel and a...

At the young age of twenty-four, Chris McCandless sought the adventure of a lifetime, which culminated into a trip to the Alaskan...

As the first published story of William Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily” (1930) non-linearly follows the eponymous character Emily Grierson,...

Nafissa Thompson-Spires’ 2019 acclaimed debut Heads of the Colored People is the short stories collection where, at one point, two black...

Ursula K. Le Guin created a body of work that merged her scientific, philosophical interests with her narrative talent, and her 1974...

THE FIFTY YEAR SWORD by Mark Z Danielewski. 100 pp. Pantheon Books, 2012. $26. As we have come to expect from Danielewski, a novel (or...

Alex Lemon’s lyrical debut Mosquito (Tin House Books, 2006) is the autobiographical journey of someone undergoing brain surgery and their...

In his divine mission to extinguish the “virus from outer space” that is language, the famous ex-addict William Burroughs uses the cut-up...

First published in 1722, Moll Flanders is the first ever crime novel. Because of this ingenuity in an unknown genre, the crime depicted...

Philip is a good boy, a really good boy, who accidentally gets sent to Hell to become the Devil’s heir. The Devil, Lucifer, is dying and...