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 ...
Aimee Bender’s stories lean to the surreal. Her subjects, often inhabiting surroundings drawn from the fantastic, are porous: They absorb their environment while living at its mercy. These disparate ...