I could barely put it down. Percival Everett has been a master of his form for many years – this is his 24th novel – but only ...

In the case of Anna, the protagonist of this short satirical novel, the answer is: get radicalized by Ayn Rand. Deeply in thrall to Rand’s theory of rational selfishness, Anna decamps to Los ...

The internationally acclaimed author wrote the short novel, titled "Koibumi” (Love letter), in 1949 for a newspaper. Its existence had not been known by literary experts and has not been ...

Highlights among the year’s novels, short-story collections and works in translation, as selected by the staff of The Washington Post’s Book World.

Is a short story the same as a novel? A short story is not a cut-down novel. In a novel the author has time to develop characters and show us many events in their lives. A short story takes ...

British writer Samantha Harvey won the prestigious Booker Prize on Tuesday for her short novel following six astronauts as ...

You wouldn’t start out trying to do a marathon, and writing a novel is basically a marathon. “I decided very early on, when I was writing a short story, I should write it as if I were paying ...

Diane Goettel, Stix’s editor at Black Lawrence Press, acknowledged that short story collections can be a hard sell, but said ...

British writer Samantha Harvey has won the Booker Prize for fiction with “Orbital,” a short, wonder-filled novel set aboard ...