The Best Short Stories 2022
- 400 pages
- 14 hours of reading
The O. Henry Prize winners contains twenty prizewinning stories chosen from the thousands published in magazines over the previous year
Valeria Luiselli crafts novels and essays that probe complex themes of identity, migration, and societal issues with profound insight. Her literary style is characterized by lyricism and depth, often weaving in poetic imagery and philosophical reflections. Luiselli constantly seeks new forms of storytelling, experimenting across genres and media to capture contemporary realities. Her works resonate with readers for their intellectual rigor and emotional depth.






The O. Henry Prize winners contains twenty prizewinning stories chosen from the thousands published in magazines over the previous year
The last of four special publications to accompany a year-long display of works from Barcelona's la Caixa Collection at Whitechapel Gallery, selected by and featuring newly-commissioned fictional works by some of the most original English and Spanish-language writers working today.
The moving, powerful and urgent English-language debut from one of the brightest young stars in world literature
The narrative explores the stark contrast between the idealized American dream and the harsh realities faced by undocumented children striving for a better life in the United States. Through their struggles and experiences, the book sheds light on the challenges, hopes, and resilience of these young individuals as they navigate a complex and often unforgiving landscape.
A moving, eye-opening polemic about the US-Mexico border and what happens to the tens of thousands of unaccompanied Mexican and Central American children arriving in the US without papers
I was born in Pachuca, the Beautiful Windy City, with four premature teeth and my body completely covered in a very fine coat of fuzz. But I'm grateful for that inauspicious start because ugliness, as my other uncle, Eurípides López Sánchez, was given to saying, is character forming. Highway is a late-in-life world traveler, yarn spinner, collector, and legendary auctioneer. His most precious possessions are the teeth of the "notorious infamous" like Plato, Petrarch, and Virginia Woolf. Written in collaboration with the workers at a Jumex juice factory, Teeth is an elegant, witty, exhilarating romp through the industrial suburbs of Mexico City and Luiselli's own literary influences.
Cosmopolitan, vivacious essays in the tradition of Brodsky's Watermark and Benjamin's The Arcades Project by a celebrated young Mexican author.
A stunningly imaginative and witty debut novel about passion, identity and ghostly existences from an exciting new voice in Latin American literature