This timely volume explores the signal contribution George Saunders has made to the development of the short story form in books ranging fromCivilWarLand in Bad Decline(1996) toTenth of December(2013). The book brings together a team of scholars from around the world to explore topics ranging from Saunders's treatment of work and religion to biopolitics and the limits of the short story form. It also includes an interview with Saunders specially conducted for the volume, and a preliminary bibliography of his published works and critical responses to an expanding and always exciting creative Åuvre. Coinciding with the release of the Saunders' first novel, Lincoln in the Bardo(2017), George Saunders: Critical Essaysis the first book-length consideration of a major contemporary author's work. It is essential reading for anyone interested in twenty-first century fiction. | George Saunders by Philip Coleman, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters