Amy Gentry

The zany and macabre stories in Owen Egerton's "How Best to Avoid Dying" make excellent bathtub reading — just be sure to unplug the hair dryer, lest you serve as...

The zany and macabre stories in Owen Egerton's "How Best to Avoid Dying" make excellent bathtub reading — just be sure to unplug the hair dryer, lest you serve as...

The title of actor and writer B.J. Novak's debut collection, "One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories," is a bit misleading. Only a handful of the 63 pieces in the...

Horror and comedy both require timing, and Dorthe Nors has it. The stories in her newly translated collection "Karate Chop" are less meditations on human savagery than riffs on it,...

"I was born to hate the place I came from." Greg Baxter's first novel "The Apartment" is a short but powerful exploration of that sentiment, uttered halfway through the novel...

"The tail is three inches long, and gleams silver with a lavender tinge, one end thin and flyaway, the other thick as rope." That would be Hana Sasaki's tail, and...

It feels ungrateful, not to mention anachronistic, to yearn for a fat realist novel when there are so many mesmerizing genre hybrids out there. Moreover, in our current end-times publishing...