Magical Negro is an archive of Black everydayness, a catalog of contemporary folk heroes, an ethnography of ancestral grief, and an inventory of figureheads, idioms, and customs. These American poems
It wasn’t surprising when the first abandoned bicycles were found along the dirt roads and farmland just across the border from Tijuana, but before long they were arriving in droves. The bikes went fr
Girls Write Now: Two Decades of True Stories from Young Female Voices offers a brave and timely portrait of teenage-girl life in the United States over the past twenty years. They're working part-time
Meet Crane Cavenaugh, budding scientist. Raised in poverty in rural Iowa by depraved adults who've given up the life of charlatans on the gospel circuit, the unsinkable Crane traces her experiences f
There's a disturbing secret in the basement of a strip mall yogurt parlor, and Jonathan, the mostly clueless clerk who works there, just wants to fix things once and for all. But things don't work out
Few countries have undergone more radical transformations than Russia has since the fall of the Soviet Union. The stories in Rasskazy: New Fiction from a New Russia present twenty-three depictions of
Vibrant, sexy, and quite possibly crazy, Bernice is determined to reclaim the child she gave up for adoption five years ago. She convinces her boyfriend, Landis, to help carry out her plan, but once
During a single summer in the 1970s, five 12-year-old girls learn that danger lies not in the external world of their night runs, where parents and their own fertile imaginations conjure visions of an
Founded in 1999, Tin House's mission was to create a literary magazine without the stuffy, elitist reputation that afflicts so much of the genre. The only literary journal with a recipe for its own m
A chance encounter between two writers, one young, one older, develops into a wonderful friendship neither expected. Frank Conroy, the author of the classic memoir Stop-Time, meets Tom Grimes, an asp
Exploring the idea that truth lies in life’s extremes, the partially linked stories in Yes, Yes, Cherries follow girls and women who are outsiders and find themselves in unusual circumstances. A lonel
Who says summer reading means a lurid potboiler or sleazy celeb tell-all? Not Tin House. Renowned for its beautiful design as well as its compelling content, the award-winning Tin House is a multisen
Tin House Magazine is a beautifully designed periodical featuring the best writers of our time alongside a new generation of talent who are poised to become the most important voices of the future. T
An innovative blend of fact and fiction, November 22, 1963 chronicles the day of John F. Kennedy's assassination. It begins that morning, with Jackie Kennedy in a Fort Worth hotel, about to leave for
Asta in the Wings is the poignant and darkly funny story of Asta Hewitt, a resourceful seven-year-old growing up in rural Maine. Isolated from the outside world by their delusional mother, Asta and h
Alone in a Helsinki cafe, Anna, a young journalist, spends a day drinking coffee and reading Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway. The novel, a gift from her professor and now lover, an American named Ian,
The Children's Day follows the life of Simon, a boy living in a free-state village during the apartheid years of the 1960s. Through a series of finely drawn and illuminating episodes, the novel captu
