THE short story is not the poor country cousin of the novel. Many excellent short story writers have been denigrated for not ...

The short story emerged in a blitzkrieg of 19th-century magazine publishing, reached its apotheosis with Chekhov, and became one of the great 20th-century art forms. William Boyd reveals his taxonomy ...

Her winning entry, set in the hold of a slave ship, explores how enslaved Africans – even as they figure out to how survive – ...

After finishing Ben Shattuck’s masterful new book of short stories, “The History of Sound” I did something I hadn’t done for more than two decades, I started reading it over again from the ...

History | July 23, 2024. The Real Story Behind Netflix’s ‘The Decameron’ Loosely based on Giovanni Boccaccio’s 14th-century collection of short stories, the series follows a group of ...