In Leonora Carrington’s 1938 short-story masterpiece “The Debutante,” a young woman wants to disobey her mother’s orders to go to a debutante ball, so she asks a hyena she has befriended to go in her ...

We gathered in a circle in the side room and talked about mirrors, and still water, and wells, and feeling understood, and opals, and then we did a creative-writing exercise about our first memory of ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Aimee Bender’s stories lean to the surreal. Her subjects, often inhabiting surroundings drawn from the fantastic, are porous: They absorb their environment ...

The Color Master review An Aimee Bender book can sometimes seem less like a reading experience than like having a very clever, very melancholy friend describe their dreams to you in vivid, fantastical ...