Author Hortense Calisher once called the short story "an apocalypse in a teacup." Critic Jane Ciabattari presents her favorite mini-apocalypses of 2012, from veteran authors like Sherman Alexie to ...

Endless summers don’t have to include endless stories. The coming weeks are shaping up to be unusually busy for fans of short fiction. New collections arriving in the spring and summer will take ...

You can finally read this Ernest Hemingway story about Paris after WWII In 1956, Ernest Hemingway wrote to his publisher about five short stories he had written: “You can always publish them ...

That's why overemphasis on phonics instruction in reading leaves out crucial steps to mastering comprehension. Why phonics falls short if reading comprehension is the goal - Los Angeles Times ...

The good news is that 2023 is looking great for short story collections. Here’s our roundup of the best out now to add to your summer reading list. Bliss Montage by Ling Ma ...

Each short story is a thrilling intellectual adventure, with Aira gleefully demolishing the division between the sciences and the arts. The Atlantic presents: Shorter Stories.

The new book “100 Years of the Best American Short Stories” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 752 pp., $30) serves as a meta-anthology that celebrates the series’ long run.

The Short Stories you should be reading this Spring: Stories of Ireland By Brian Friel, Show Don't Tell By Curtis Sittenfeld, A Beautiful Lack of Consequence By Monika Radojevic.