Jenny Bhatt

Jenny Bhatt is a writer, literary translator, and literary critic. Her short story collection and literary translation books are due out in 2020. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in various venues in the US, UK, and India, including NPR, The Atlantic, BBC Culture, Literary Hub, Longreads, The Millions, and others. Her fiction has been nominated for Pushcart Prizes and the 2017 Best American Short Stories. She was a finalist for the 2017 Best of the Net Anthology. Having lived and worked her way around India, England, Germany, Scotland, and various parts of the US, she now lives in a suburb of Dallas, Texas. Find her at: https://jennybhattwriter.com.
Nowhere Is a Place in Tatyana Tolstaya’s ‘Aetherial Worlds’

Nowhere Is a Place in Tatyana Tolstaya’s ‘Aetherial Worlds’

The short stories in Aetherial Worlds poignantly merge past, present, and fantasy through auto-fiction, essayistic pieces, and allegorical tales.

Short Stories: Refugees

Short Stories: Refugees

These five stories poignantly convey the lives of refugees from different parts of the world. Our authors in this installment are Viet Thanh Nguyen, Guadalupe Nettel, Bernard Malamud, Choi Jin-young, and Mohsin Hamid.

We Go to William Trevor’s Works to Look for Ourselves and to Understand Others

We Go to William Trevor’s Works to Look for Ourselves and to Understand Others

Posthumous collection Last Stories proves that Trevor, as a short story writer, was a master in command of his craft and will remain in a class of his own.

‘The Storm’ Brings Heart, Urgency, and Ambition

‘The Storm’ Brings Heart, Urgency, and Ambition

Spanning 60-some years, Arif Anwar's debut novel explores aspects of Bangladesh's history and how matters of race, religion, and nationality have shaped personal lives.

The Many Benefits of Travel: Paul Theroux’s ‘Figures in a Landscape’

The Many Benefits of Travel: Paul Theroux’s ‘Figures in a Landscape’

Travel of the kind Theroux has spent a lifetime doing would compel anyone to develop patience, a love of solitude and anonymity, a constant alertness, and a resourceful toughness.

Short Stories: Surprises and Twists

Short Stories: Surprises and Twists

Five literary short stories with a twist by Alice Munro, Jorge Luis Borges, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Lee Martin, and Jennifer Lynne Christie.

Take It Apart by the Seams: Vera Tobin on Your Brain on Fiction

Take It Apart by the Seams: Vera Tobin on Your Brain on Fiction

“Dumb-smart stories”, fake news, serial narratives, and surprise endings: an engaging conversation about cognitive bias with author Vera Tobin.

‘Elements of Surprise’ and the Pleasures of Being Had

‘Elements of Surprise’ and the Pleasures of Being Had

Vera Tobin's work helps dispel 20th-century Freudian notions that we are made up of many inexplicable facets, that our motives are unknown to us, and that we repress all that we cannot deal with.

Private Habits and Private Selves in Curtis Sittenfeld’s Short Stories

Private Habits and Private Selves in Curtis Sittenfeld’s Short Stories

Sittenfeld explores class, gender, privilege, and Midwestern angst in her first short story collection, which will be adapted to an Apple TV show.

Short Stories: Fiction from ‘Sharp’ Women Writers Known for Their Non-fiction

Short Stories: Fiction from ‘Sharp’ Women Writers Known for Their Non-fiction

We explore short stories from five writers in Michelle Dean's Sharp -- Dorothy Parker, Rebecca West, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, and Nora Ephron.

The Intimate Politics of the Female Self in Danielle Lazarin’s ‘Back Talk’

The Intimate Politics of the Female Self in Danielle Lazarin’s ‘Back Talk’

The girls and women in Danielle Lazarin's debut short story collection deal with their desires, needs, and fears with vulnerability, suppressed anger, self-awareness, and self-denial.

Did Women Writers Change the 20th Century New York Intellectual Scene?

Did Women Writers Change the 20th Century New York Intellectual Scene?

Michelle Dean's Sharp challenges readers to consider what we gain from reading the lives and works of women writers and how they shaped cultural and socio-political thought in the 20th century and beyond.