The novelist Cynan Jones once wrote that in brief fiction, “every word is doing a job. So pay attention. A short novel is an event, not a trip.” The Swedish Academy recognized that this week ...

Short novels are even sneaking into works of long, complex fiction: In Lucy Ives’s labyrinthine Life Is Everywhere, the protagonist’s eerie novella, a riff on Hamlet, pops up hundreds of pages in.

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Increasingly, the short novel seems to me to be the ideal literary form for our tired, distracted but still story-hungry age. Maybe the whole notion is foolish.

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I began to recommend short novels and novellas (at the risk of sparking debate, I’d suggest that short novels very roughly fall between 125-220 pages while novellas are more like 50-125 pages ...

Whether you agree with her or not, a short story does hover halfway between a poem and a novel. The best short story writers write prosetry, a poem in prose form, and when it soars, it’s the ...