and be sure to respect copyright protections. Finally, before you bring these short stories for middle schoolers to your classroom, make sure the material (and whatever twist ending is
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These individual short stories are the best of the best — and the even better news is that they're available for free online for you to peruse. From classics published in the 1900s to a short story that exploded in late 2017, here are ten of the greatestfree short storiesfor you to ...
From Israel to India to Canada, Tsabari’s indelible characters grapple with love, violence, faith, the slipperiness of identity, and the challenges of balancing old traditions with modern times. These eleven spellbinding stories often focus on Israel’s Mizrahi Jews, featuring mothers and children,...
Great performances, gloriously innovative uses of modern tech, and nods to found footage classics make Host a horrific lockdown masterpiece. Impetigore (2019) (Image credit: Shudder) Firstly, don’t let the title put you off: Joko Anwar’s Impetigore isn’t wall-to-wall arterial spurts. ...
Question: What are the best short stories in the Modern Era
Ezra Pound called upon "the artist to make humanity aware of itself," and so these stories do. In a brilliant New Yorker piece on Henry James, Anthony Lane imagines our current state as seen by James, describing modern living rising up "like a bad dream; an archipelago of solitudes, ...
This collection, unique to the Modern Library, gathers seven of Dostoevsky s key works and shows him to be equally adept at the short story as with the novel. Exploring many of the same themes as in his longer works, these small masterpieces move from the tender and romantic White Nights,...
It may have been the first British feature film with a Black director, but Pressure is no museum piece: a story of persecution, protest and generational angst, it feels every bit as timely in a modern context as it must have done in the mid-’70s (one particular scene of young ...