Winner of the Bakeless Prize for Fiction, an imaginative debut that ranges from Havana to Berlin* A Kansas City Star Best Book of the Year * One of Publishers Weekly*'s "Best Summer Books"**Ancient cities and fallen empires come to life in this masterful collection. In the Byzantine court, a noble with a crippled hand is called upon to ensure that a holy man poses no threat to the throne. On an island in Lake Michigan, a religious c...

The Fall 2022 Issue of Ploughshares, edited by Ladette Randolph, features nine longform pieces by Frances de Pontes Peebles, Daniel Peña, E. K. Ota, Aisha Bhoori, Bruce & Ju-Chan Fulton, John Fulton, Micah Perks, Ben Stroud, and Emily Waples.Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a v...