Looking for something to read in between the barbecues and fireworks? Try this mix of novels, short stories, poetry and more.

You don’t read short stories. Well, you probably don’t – statistically speaking. Whenever I speak to friends, too, they’re ...

A short story has velocity and verve, and the best ones create an immediate, ... “A novel wants to befriend you, a short story almost never.” Many short stories can be aloof and enigmatic.

The 13 best novels (and 2 best short story collections) of 2023 (Illustration by Jess Hutchison / Los Angeles Times; photos from Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Knopf Books, Random House, William Morrow) ...

In a major deal that was highly competitive with multiple bidders, Amazon has bought the rights to Collision, a short novel ...

The esteemed author of Florida is back with her first collection since 2018.

Joking aside, the short story is not an obscure offshoot of the novel, but a great art form in its own right. To my mind, the novel is a hearty meal while the short story collection is a tasting ...

May is Short Story Month. Celebrate by checking out one of these great Canadian short story collections. If you're also interested in poetry, the 2025 CBC Poetry Prize is accepting submissions ...

The short story had always existed as an informal oral tradition, but until the mass middle-class literacy of the 19th century arrived in the west, and the magazine and periodical market was invented ...

He made the 2021 CBC Short Story Prize longlist and his 2020 debut novel Home Waltz was shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award for fiction. Stray Dogs by Rawi Hage Stray Dogs is a ...