Every time I get a recommendation request where one of the five recent reads contains a collection of short stories, I get extra excited because it means I may be able to recommend a book of short ...

Lauren Groff returns with a spirited, anguished look at the social narratives that shape our lives in her new short story collection.

For many years, I assumed that the appeal of a short story was that it was, well, short. Instead of slowly reading a novel over weeks, the reader of these bite-size plots can experience character ...

Urdu Literature has provided a scintillating treasure house of fiction, beginning from the earliest novels like Umrao Jan Ada ...

Good morning and welcome back to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. I’m Jim Ruland, a fiction writer, punk historian and a longtime contributor to the Los Angeles Times, and this summer I’ll be ...

Each month, the Columbia Public Library offers selections from its collection related to a current best-seller or hot topic. Library Associate Beth Shapiro compiled this month’s selections. In ...

Houston writer Tayyba Kanwal talks with Houston Matters about her new collection of short stories, "Talking with Boys." ...

As Ross McMeekin tells it, short stories are a kind of literary firecracker. “There’s an intensity and a compression to the form,” he says. “It’s almost a puzzle element with short stories, in that ...

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with author Aaliyah Bilal about her new book Temple Folk, which tells the stories of dozens of Black Muslims over the course of several decades. In her debut short story ...

Before Covid-19, there was no formula for social distancing, merely a concept of personal space in public places and safety guidelines like standing behind a painted line while waiting for a subway.