With her reputation for wonderment, every new book by Link arrives trailing clouds of enchantment. And given the assumption that novels rank higher on the scale of being than short stories — a ...

MANITOWOC – Local author Jim Lazarus recently published his fifth book, “Eight Stories,” which is a compilation of short stories and novellas. The varied fiction collection includes short ...

PEOPLE has an exclusive first look at Eli Frankel's book 'Sisters in Death,' out this fall. The book reveals the connection ...

I’ve read other Manchette, but I pulled out this compact, 91-page book to read its first short chapter and the terse story kicks off with a bang. A gothic noir, it promises the kind of dark ...

Short on time? 10 books you can finish quickly. ... The Book World Staff rounds up some of their favorite books that come in under 200 pages. Accessibility statement Skip to main content.

Samanta Schweblin's new short stories take place against familiar everyday scenes. But she twists and turns those moments in unexpected and chilling ways. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with the author.

When a bunch of great short stories are gathered together in a book, this is even better, like having the world’s greatest candy sampler sitting chairside, ...

So it is a warm gratification to find the new Hemingway book, “Men Without Women,” a truly magnificent work. It is composed of thirteen short stories, most of which have been published before.

Editor’s note: The opinions of the smart, well-read women in my Denver book club mean a lot, and often determine what the rest of us choose to pile onto our bedside tables. So we asked them, and ...

Short novels are even sneaking into works of long, complex fiction: In Lucy Ives’s labyrinthine Life Is Everywhere, the protagonist’s eerie novella, a riff on Hamlet, pops up hundreds of pages in.

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 ...