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Ten Little Indians by Sherman Alexie This collection of short stories captures the range of Alexie's larger body of work quite well. I...

While short stories are one of the oldest fictional genres (if not the oldest), "linked" short stories are among the newest. And i...

The Ape answered a few questions about books and blogging for Becky over at Page Turners . If you'd like to know the origin of the name ...

Gustave Flaubert. (Not pictured: his mother and his syphilis) On the Ape's Twitter feed (@readingape), we feature a daily tidbit of...

After reading Anis Shivani's 15 Most Overrated Contemporary American Writers , I was tempted both to attack his critical suppositions (“...

Time for another installment of our occasionl feature Ask the Ape, in which the Ape responds to reader questions, comments, and condemnation...

Quick note before offering some abbreviated thoughts on our recent reading: you can now subscribe to The Ape by email. There's a link ov...

I do most of my book buying on Amazon. There. I said it. I try to throw some business at my excellent local bookstore, BookCourt , but I pr...

We're finding it difficult to process Gary Shteyngart's Super Sad True Love Story , so consider the below not so much a review as po...

For some unknown reason, we've started tweeting a daily literary fact, somewhat abstrusely called Literary Fact of the Day. For the no...