Demented North: Stories

From the bestselling author of Ohio and The Deluge comes a wild, inventive, kaleidoscopic short story collection that reckons with the full sweep of the human project-the myths, delusions, triumphs, and atrocities that define us.

In “Chimera,” an ambitious contemporary artist creates a work that challenges the limits of ethics and science. In “Night and Fog Over Copenhagen,” a woman with a particular set of skills goes in search of her sister and instead finds a bottomless mystery. In “Splat...