For example, how about Michael Kohlhaas, by Heinrich von Kleist? This gripping 19th century novella about a German man whose horses have been unjustly maltreated, feels thrillingly modern as an ...

A pre-employment physical and drug testing were conditions of employment. (This is a modern fable, after all.) The man went to a doctor practicing on contract for the employer. The doctor said ...

This modern fable also involves lions ... Above all, this story is a dramatic example of the ripple effect, how a seemingly tiny event has cascading repercussions which end up producing a ...

At the same time, Modern Fables considers how we are shaped as much by the places we are from as by the times in which we live. Growing up and living in the deeply conservative Canadian prairies ...

In this darkly funny book about love in the digital age, Mikka Jacobsen challenges the notion that a single woman in her thirties writing about love is simply desperate. Instead, in an unflinching ...