In a world of ever-shrinking attention spans, the short story collection offers a potent dose of literary satisfaction. This ...

This weekend, bibliophiles are trading pages for panels. On Saturday at the University of Southern California, the Los ...

The latest volume continues to feature some of the very finest contemporary literary work, with six short stories, a novella, ...

Amor Towles' best-selling 2024 story collection, Table for Two, is now out in paperback. Below, the author of A Gentleman in ...

An International Bestseller, it ranks among the Top 20 in Communication & Social Skills, alongside renowned authors like ...

To celebrate the 30th edition of the L.A. Times Festival of Books, we asked authors, editors, critics and scholars to select ...

The short story form ... hop and shimmy on the pages. Every word is electric. It lights up Ashk’s eccentric worlds. It is to the translator’s credit that every story feels so alive – its ...

Vincent Anioke has made the 2025 CBC Short Story Prize shortlist for Love is the Enemy. He will receive $1,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts and his work has been published on CBC Books.

Lydia Millet's characters in Atavists interact and have little dramas of their own — the author's talent is on full display ...

The Queen of the Tambourine,” “Old Filth” and other fiction vividly captured both working-class and aristocratic Britain in ...

The 339-page book published by Little, Brown is filled with anecdotes, all the way back to birth as Peter Blankfield in the ...

Alexa Donovan, Arts Editor  “Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is ...