There is something quietly defiant about a short novel. It refuses to waste your time. It walks in, sits down, and within a hundred or two hundred pages, does something to you that a thousand-page ...

Something is shifting in literary culture. " In a reading landscape reshaped by shorter attention spans and the relentless pace of modern life, short story collections are quietly staging a rebellion ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. All five of these librarians had interesting and unique short books to recommend—from timeless classics to more contemporary picks ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. James’ third novel and brilliant anticolonial critique (also a National Book Award longlist nominee) deploys a large cast of ...

For years, fans of Kelly Link, one of the finest purveyors of contemporary short fiction, have wondered what the author would be able to do with a full novel — and have eagerly waited for her to ...

There is a quieter, more succinct wing of literature that thrives on pithy conciseness: the short story. The authors of this art form have perfected the concept of this type of storytelling by ...