Coolest American Stories 2025
America’s most talented storytellers share their most interesting, engaging, unputdownable work in a collection made for story lovers. Praised nationwide by readers and bestselling authors, COOLEST AMERICAN STORIES 2025 exudes its editors’ philosophy that a collection of widely appealing stories can make for common ground that could unite rather than divide Americans.
Advanced Comprehension at the Doctor Awesome English Academy
Coming March, 2026!
More popularly known as cram schools, “hagwons” are private, for-profit institutes that students attend outside regular school hours for extra study. While most of these schools are reputable enough, others do everything they can to maximize profit by minimizing cost.
Told as a suite of meditations from a forlorn narrator, Marsh’s novella paints a portrait of an English school loaded with journeying lechers, drug-addled seekers, obsessive tiger moms, and brain-fried administrators. Alongside are ruminations on the conflicted search for community abroad and the difficult, perhaps doomed pursuit of escape.
