(96 pages) — Becca Rothfeld People are often drawn to short novels because of some unspoken promise of elegance and perfectionism. Such books are marketed to readers as marvels of precision ...

Every time I get a recommendation request where one of the five recent reads contains a collection of short stories, I get ...

From It to The Mist, Stephen King's iconic book series The Dark Tower has plenty of tie-ins to the King of Horror's other ...

Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review.

Mad” and “Madness” are the operative words in the title of this collection of short stories in which the lives of Howie and ...

This very short story hides the titles of 13 popular books published in the first decade of the 21st century. Dive in and see ...

Maylis de Kerangal’s stories and novella use sound to tie people to pasts they’ve lost, and canoes, in assorted forms, to ...

Naomi Wood, an English author not yet well known in the U.S., has written three historical novels, including the ...

"Wicked," starring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, is based on the book of the same name by Gregory Maguire. But the book isn't PG like the movie.

From an American master comes a landmark book that launched decades of pale imitations: Jesus’ Son, a glittering stick of dynamite thrown into the literary firmament. In this short, luminous ...

A short story might be just the thing to get you ... difficult time to sit down and concentrate on something like a book, as living through a global pandemic means that many of us have other ...