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 ...

The stories include “The Killers,” which seems to me one of the four great American short stories. (All you have to do is drop the nearest hat, and I’ll tell you what I think the others are.

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 ...

AMERICA HAS a long history of buying land: it acquired more than two-fifths of its current territory that way. But Donald Trump is the first president in more than a century to publicly call for ...

We asked New Scientist writers to pick their favourite sci-fi short story. From H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine to Octavia E. Butler’s Bloodchild, via stories from George R. R. Martin and Ursula ...

Two beloved Barrington traditions, McGonigal’s Pub and Boloney’s Sandwich Shop, are being revived at a new venue, Long Story Short Pub & Eatery, at 113 E. Main St. It is a joint venture of ...

A short history of AI, and what it is (and isn’t) Maybe it’s magic, maybe it’s math—nobody can decide. Nobody at Abyssinian is taking the task of living longer seriously enough.

They want to erase us — But our history, our stories, our resilience can’t be erased OPINION: Nicolle Hurline Grayson has 8 ways to resist the actions taken by elected officials and ...

Listen to the RTÉ Short Story Competition 2024 stories nightly on Late Date from Monday 18 November (full broadcast schedule here); tune into Arena for interviews and updates, and join us for the ...

RTÉ is inviting entries to one of Ireland's longest established and most significant literary prizes, the RTÉ Short Story Competition in honour of writer and broadcaster, Francis MacManus.