Helen Schulman is not afraid to make you squirm. Across her long and distinguished career as a novelist and short story writer, she has fearlessly explored the awkward collisions between our private ...

Isabel Allende has a new short story out, a delightfully ribald tale of impossible love — with plenty of sex-at-first-sight. The impossible part is because the lovers' adventure takes place in a ...

In “The Book of Love,” the Pulitzer finalist and master of short stories pushes our understanding of what a fantasy novel can be. By Amal El-Mohtar Amal El-Mohtar is the Book Review’s science fiction ...

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 ...

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 ...