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The latest collection from the US author known for her playfulness and brevity has a wintry feel

Already a trailblazer when it comes to making short prose an art form, Lydia Davis is also part of a vanguard shifting the publishing industry in another impactful way: Our Strangers will only be available through Bookshop, independent booksellers, and through libraries, but not on that well-known online marketplace. Yet, as momentous as this is, the true pleasure of this collection is having more of Davis’s stories in our strange world, in these strange times.