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 ...

The story takes place in 1922 on Long Island, where Nick, a Yale University graduate and war veteran, rents a summer house ...

Fewer pages with deeper impact, these 8 short books deliver more emotion, tension, and meaning than entire seasons of your ...

In 2021, Gini Alhadeff, author and translator, brought a new concept to the venerable publisher New Directions. What if, she proposed, New Directions published short books—novellas or long ...

The esteemed author of Florida is back with her first collection since 2018.

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Short books—like novellas, standalone short stories, ... Kyono said, he’s seen an influx of “little hardcover 60-page short story books or novellas” over the last year and a half, ...

In addition to his many novels, Stephen King has churned out a large amount of scary short stories. We ranked 10 of the best.

In their spareness, novellas and short novels — I’m counting any story longer than about 80 pages and any novel shorter than about 200 — reward a word-by-word reading.

Lydia Millet's characters in Atavists interact and have little dramas of their own — the author's talent is on full display here. Not every story is strong, but they work well together.