Open Book. Hollie McNish, Modern American Short Stories, Twins. Hollie McNish talks about her new book Slug and other things I've been told to hate.

A new collection, The Modern American Short Story, brings together stories from a transformative fifty-year period from the 1970s to the present day. Its editor, John Freeman, ...

The American Dream Is Alive Daniel J. Mitchell, Cato Institute And if we can restrain the size and scope of government, there’s every reason to believe that the America Dream will be strong for ...

The classic nuclear family, the kind imprinted on the American imagination by TV shows like Leave It To Beaver, has been left behind. In 1960, 37% of households included a married couple raising their ...

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THE twenty-four stories chosen by Mr. Howells for this anthology as ‘Great Modern American,’ date approximately from the Civil War. Half a dozen of the best of them, including Harriet Prescott ...

A USEFUL historical survey, chiefly descriptive but partly critical. The author's primary object is to give a short and accurate description of the leading Greek ethical systems and of those ...

Dollar for dollar, pound for pound, story for story, readers can’t beat “The Best American Short Stories” series. Every year it brings us a wide variety of the finest stories by the best ...

Hollie McNish, Modern American Short Stories, Twins. Leïla Slimani, Rachel Cusk's A Life's Work 20 years on with Kate Mosse and Laura Dockrill, Richard Beard ...