July 2023
The July stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.
- ‘Interpreter Of Maladies’ by Jhumpa Lahiri
- ‘Three People’ by William Trevor
- ‘Mrs. Sen’s’ by Jhumpa Lahiri
- ‘In The Basement’ by Isaac Babel
- ‘The Dancing-Master’s Music’ by William Trevor
- ‘This Blessed House’ by Jhumpa Lahiri
- ‘A Real Durwan’ by Jhumpa Lahiri
- ‘Di Grasso’ by Isaac Babel
- ‘Miss Brill’ by Katherine Mansfield
- ‘The Diver’ by V.S. Pritchett
- ‘The Secret Of Cartwheels’ by Patricia Henley
- ‘Sexy’ by Jhumpa Lahiri
- ‘The Parrot’ by Elizabeth Bowen
- ‘First Love’ by Isaac Babel
- ‘Sacred Statues’ by William Trevor
- ‘The Third And Final Continent’ by Jhumpa Lahiri
- ‘The Widow’ by Isaac Babel
- ‘Allegiance’ by Aryn Kyle
- ‘How Things Were Done In Odessa’ by Isaac Babel
- ‘The Meeting’ by Alix Ohlin
- ‘Graillis’s Legacy’ by William Trevor
- ‘After Rain’ by William Trevor
- ‘Odd Jobs’ by Jonathan Escoffery
- ‘The Treatment Of Bibi Haldar’ by Jhumpa Lahiri
- ‘Invisible Bird’ by Claire-Louise Bennett
- ‘I Am An American’ by James Alan McPherson
- ‘Pestilence’ by Jonathan Escoffery
- ‘Ten Indians’ by Ernest Hemingway
- ‘The Cure’ by Melissa Febos
- ‘The Break Up Of Ice’ by Lucie Elven
- ‘In Bed One Night’ by Robert Coover
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