With clarity and ease, Alice Munro renders complex, difficult events and emotions into stories that shed light on the unpredictable ways in which men and women accommodate and often transcend what happens in their lives.

With her peerless ability to give us the essence of a life in often brief but spacious and timeless stories, Alice Munro illumines the moment a life is shaped, the moment a dream, or sex, or perhaps a simple twist of fate turns a person out of his or her accustomed path and into another way of being. Suffused with Munro's clarity of vision and her unparalleled gift for storytelling, these stories about departures and beginnings, accidents, dangers,...

Best-selling author Meg Wolitzer guest edits this year’s Best American Short Stories, the premier annual showcase for America's finest short fiction.

Presents twenty of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.

Presents a selection of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.

In her introduction to The Best American Short Stories 2021, guest editor Jesmyn Ward says that the best fiction offers the reader a "sense of repair." The stories in this year's collection accomplish just that, immersing the reader in powerfully imagined worlds and allowing them to bring some of that power into their own lives. From a stirring portrait of Rodney King's final days to a surreal video game set in the Middle East,with real consequences,...

Presents twenty of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.