Helen Schulman talks about writing the short stories in her new book, ‘Fools for Love.’ We also check in with Now Serving, a ...

Stephen King called this book "the best crime fiction I've read in 20 years," and now it's being adapted into a movie with an ...

Five short story recommendations sure to convert you. For a gentle, easing in to the world of short stories, start with these ...

In the acknowledgements to “Return to Sender,” Craig Johnson writes, “I’m always looking for interesting stories that exemplify the unique area in which I live.” So when Johnson learned the longest ...

In the tradition of Wait for Signs and The Highwayman, Craig Johnson is back with a short novel set in the Alaska tundra where a young Walt Longmire and Henry Standing Bear face off with powerful ...

In the novel she is currently working on, the story is told from the perspective of a 13-year-old girl. The stories of 'Hellions' The process of writing a novel versus a short story is not the same.

Book Review. The Rest Is Memory: A Novel. By Lily Tuck Liveright: 144 pages, $24.99 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support ...

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 ...

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.

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

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.