We’re here to help unpack the themes, motifs, and main ideas behind some of the greatest work of short fiction, to help you understand the stories of Faulkner, Hemingway, O’Connor, and more.
John Updike
Raymond Carver
Anton Chekhov
Ernest Hemingway
Julio Cortázar
Sherwood Anderson
Flannery O’Connor
Jamaica Kincaid
Flannery O’Connor
Kurt Vonnegut
Ernest Hemingway
Franz Kafka
Jhumpa Lahiri
Tillie Olsen
Katherine Ann Porter
Shirley Jackson
Richard Wright
W. W. Jacobs
Richard Connell
Guy de Maupassant
Ambrose Bierce
D. H. Lawrence
Bobbie Ann Mason
James Baldwin
Haruki Murakami
John Cheever
Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez
Raymond Carver
Joyce Carol Oates
Eudora Welty
Charlotte Perkins Gilman