by Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
★★★
Tag archives: short stories
In the Country
by Mia Alvar
★★★½
Ayiti
by Roxane Gay
★★★½
All the Names They Used for God
by Anjali Sachdeva
★★★★½
Paper Teeth
by Lauralyn Chow
★
Difficult Women
by Roxane Gay
A collection of marriage- and baby-normative stories with nearly identical protagonists. All formidably written of course.
Homesick for Another World
by Ottessa Moshfegh
Capably written single-formula stories that are casually fatphobic, ableist, dismissive of the other while centring another ‘other’.
Starlings
by Jo Walton
★★★★½
The Witch and Other Stories
by Anton Chekhov
Incidentally, my favourite short stories by Chekhov are not found in this collection. They are: “At Christmas Time”, “The Horse-Stealers”, and “A Nincompoop”.
The Thing Around Your Neck
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
★★★
Unexpected Stories
by Octavia E. Butler
★★★★
Bloodchild: And Other Stories
by Octavia E. Butler
“Bloodchild” is my favourite short story of hers. I would avoid “Near of Kin” and “Crossover”.
Night at the Fiestas
by Kirstin Valdez Quade
★★½
The Beggar Maid
by Alice Munro
★★
A Bestiary
by Lily Hoang
★★½