(96 pages) — Becca Rothfeld People are often drawn to short novels because of some unspoken promise of elegance and perfectionism. Such books are marketed to readers as marvels of precision ...

From an American master comes a landmark book that launched decades of pale imitations: Jesus’ Son, a glittering stick of dynamite thrown into the literary firmament. In this short, luminous ...

A short story might be just the thing to get you ... difficult time to sit down and concentrate on something like a book, as living through a global pandemic means that many of us have other ...

Naomi Wood, an English author not yet well known in the U.S., has written three historical novels, including the ...

This Companion offers students and scholars a comprehensive introduction to the development and the diversity of the American short story as a literary form from its origins in the eighteenth century ...

What could be better than a book where each and every ‘chapter’ gives you something new—new ideas, new casts of characters… even new worlds to explore. Short stories get a bad rap.