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 ...

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

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 ...

'Recitatif,' Toni Morrison's only short story, ... February is Black History Month in the U.S., and this year's theme is Black Health and Wellness. NPR has compiled a list of stories, ...

Author Hortense Calisher once called the short story "an apocalypse in a teacup." Critic Jane Ciabattari presents her favorite mini-apocalypses of 2012, from veteran authors like Sherman Alexie to ...

Three dazzling new short-story collections rattle and shake with horror and heartbreak. Credit...John Gall Supported by By Samantha Hunt By the end of BEING HERE (160 pp., University Press of ...