The novelist Cynan Jones once wrote that in brief fiction, “every word is doing a job. So pay attention. A short novel is an event, not a trip.” The Swedish Academy recognized that this week ...

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.

In a major deal that was highly competitive with multiple bidders, Amazon has bought the rights to Collision, a short novel ...

Increasingly, the short novel seems to me to be the ideal literary form for our tired, distracted but still story-hungry age. Maybe the whole notion is foolish.

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Short books—like novellas, standalone short stories, and poetry collections—are finally getting their due. What took so long?

I began to recommend short novels and novellas (at the risk of sparking debate, I’d suggest that short novels very roughly fall between 125-220 pages while novellas are more like 50-125 pages ...

The Summoning premiered in 2017 — 8 years later, it’s getting a graphic novel series from Oni Press. Check out the first 10 pages here.

Publisher Laplacian and developer Sakasauma have announced OneRoom: Yui Hanasaka Memorial, an animated novel game allowing players to reexperience the story of short anime series OneRoom’s ma… ...

The six books, for starters, skew short (three are under 300 pages; only one, Rachel Kushner’s Creation Lake, is over ...