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.

Short fiction is a wordful format. Many writing classes for kids and college students exclusively study short stories because ...

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.

Longer than a short story but shorter than a novel, the form has been the ugly stepchild of the literary world. But that's starting to change.

The contemporary American novella, like Peace, is almost always passed off as a novel or "short novel" because the novella is the great shame of the publishing world.

I finally got my pre-ordered copy of "The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner by "Twilight" author Stephenie Meyer. Being rather frugal, I opted for the pre-order online discount, but found myself ...

Fonda Lee, who made a name for herself as the author of the fantasy series “The Green Bone Saga,” released “Untethered Sky” on April 11, a novella that follows a hunter and her bird on a ...

What exactly separates a short story from a novella from a novel, you ask? As with most art forms, the label is somewhat ...