Contemporary – Page 16 – The Short Story Project

A curated collection of contemporary short stories from around the world. Here you'll find titles and authors reaching from post World War II to the current day, handpicked to represent a comprehensive picture of the cultural, social and political zeitgeist from all ends of the globe.

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Gaza

Talal Abu Shawish

Red Lights

Israeli-Palestinian - political

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USA

Lydia Davis

Television

American culture - existentialism - suburbia - writing

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France

Sylvain Tesson

Boredom

alienation - coming of age - despair - nihilism

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Italy

Giuseppe Berto

The Girl Goes to Calabria

lust - psychological - sex

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Israel

Lavie Tidhar

The Last Osama

Al-Qaeda - alternative history - American culture - political - war

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Israel

Rave Sagie

The Kid

alienation - angst - loneliness - manhood

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Israel

Dorit Rabinyan

Water Breaking

family - motherhood - realism

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