Short Story

Reviews

Helen Garner's Collected Stories and the Uneasy Vessel of Short Fiction

A new review of Helen Garner's collected stories argues that the short story form is an uneasy vessel for her work. I am not sure that is a criticism. Unease, in Garner, is usually the point.

Authors

Sofía Balbuena Wins the Ribera del Duero Prize and Talks About Women's Inner Torment

Spanish author Sofía Balbuena has won the Ribera del Duero Prize for short fiction. Her work explores the inner lives of women — not as a sociological exercise, but as the only territory she seems interested in mapping.