Combines fifteen of the author's classic short stories with fifteen new stories in an anthology that features tales involving donkey basketball leagues, lethal wind turbines, and marriage. In these comfort-zone-destroying tales, including the masterpiece, War Dances, characters grapple with racism, damaging stereotypes, poverty, alcoholism, diabetes, and the tragic loss of languages and customs. Questions of authenticity and identity abound. Sherman...

Collection of poems revealing the spirit of North American Indian attitudes on life, love, and other experiences.

This acclaimed collection of stories presents the kind of native American rarely seen in literature--one portrayed without stereotypes--who pays his bills, holds down jobs, and falls in and out of love.

The Virtuosity and exuberance found in National Book Award winner Sherman Alexie's own work characterizes his selections for The Best American Poetry-2015. Alexie arrived in force with his collection of poems The Business of Fancydancing in 1992, and here he has chosen poems that are without exception arresting and bold. The 2015 edition showcases some of our leading luminaries and introduces a number of outstanding younger poets. Series editor David...

A gifted and accomplished storyteller returns with a powerful and timely novel of a troubled foster teenager. Simultaneously wrenching and deeply humorous, wholly contemporary yet steeped in American history, "Flight" is irrepressible, fearless, and groundbreaking.

Former Spokane Reservation best friends, Seymour and Aristotle had taken different paths before they are brought together for the funeral of an old friend. Both went off to college in Seattle. One is now a successful and openly gay poet; the other returned home embittered. Tensions and resentments flare as they meet again sixteeen years later.

Collects forty short stories published between 1915 and 2015, from writers that include Ernest Hemingway, John Updike, and Alice Munro that exemplify their era and stand the test of time.