Every time I get a recommendation request where one of the five recent reads contains a collection of short stories, I get ...

For, a year or so before “The Sun Also Rises,” he had published “In Our Time,” a collection of short pieces. The book caused about as much stir in literary circles as an incompleted ...

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.

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.

Many readers turn to audiobooks, which they can listen to while cooking, cleaning, driving or taking a walk, but sometimes ...