THE GRANTA BOOK OF THE AMERICAN SHORT STORY. Edited by Richard Ford. Granta Books/Viking. 710 pages. $27.50. In such a volume of short stories as this, two questions invariably occur. One is how th… ...

The new book “100 Years of the Best American Short Stories” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 752 pp., $30) serves as a meta-anthology that celebrates the series’ long run.

It is nearly twenty years since the series of Short Stories by American Authors was published. Since that time, back in the far ages, an entirely new generation of short-story writers has grown up ...

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For the past 100 years, the annual Best American Short Stories anthologies have sought to demonstrate what can be accomplished in that pint of prose we call a short story. The implicit question of ...

The latest book from the celebrated American novelist is a collection of short stories pulled from his decades-long career. Exploring themes of isolation and solitude, The Angel Esmeralda charts a ...

The American short story needs them both, if only to figure out what on earth it is going to be next. Tom Bissell. Boston Review is nonprofit and reader funded. We rely on readers to keep our pages ...