A cage went in search of a bird: ten Kafkaesque stories

Introduction / Becca Rothfield

Art hotel / Ali Smith

Return to the museum / Joshua Cohen

The board / Elif Batuman

God's doorbell / Naomi Alderman

The hurt / Tommy Orange

Hygiene / Helen Oyeyemi

The landlord / Keith Ridgway

Apostrophe's dream / Yiyun Li

Headache / Leone Ross

This fact can even be proved by means of the sense of hearing / Charlie Kaufman.