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

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 ...

Miao Xiaoyu, chief scriptwriter of the drama, said that the novel, first serialized online in 2010, has been etched in the ...

In a major deal that was highly competitive with multiple bidders, Amazon has bought the rights to Collision, a short novel ...

Try also If you want to stick to fiction, try Jhumpa Lahiri’s short novel, “Whereabouts”.In our appraisal in 2021 we wrote that she had taken risks for her craft that paid off beautifully.

What exactly separates a short story from a novella from a novel, you ask? As with most art forms, the label is somewhat malleable. When it comes down to it, though, it’s all about word count.

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.

Publisher Kodansha and developer TearyHand Studio have announced short interactive novel game and Roger for PC (Steam). It will launch in spring 2025 with English and Japanese language support.

Jessica Anthony's new novel, The Most, blindsided me with its power, much like the cunning tennis strategy from which it gets its title.I don't say this often, but this superb short novel, about a ...

Publisher Laplacian and developer Sakasauma have announced OneRoom: Yui Hanasaka Memorial, an animated novel game allowing players to reexperience the story of short anime series OneRoom’s ma… ...

The novel, Latronico’s fourth, was first published in Italy in 2022, but since appearing in English this year has been a critical hit – and, among Substack-addicted literary hipsters, just as ...