Maylis de Kerangal's new story collection, "Canoes," is a moving, surprising exploration of grief and friendship across seven short stories and one novella, set in France, Canada and the United States ...

the next logical step was to go ahead and rank the 10 best Stephen King short stories. However, this proved to be a far more ...

He was praised, adored, analyzed, best-sold, argued about ... Killers,” which seems to me one of the four great American short stories. (All you have to do is drop the nearest hat, and I ...

I’m going to do my best to tempt at least some dedicated non-short story readers into giving this unique pleasure a shot.

This Companion offers students and scholars a comprehensive introduction to the development and the diversity of the American short story as a literary form from its origins in the eighteenth century ...