Short story collections offer the perfect medium for fiction writers to craft compelling, affecting narratives that simply may not warrant a full-length novel to explore the ideas. The short story ...

These short story collections give you exactly that. We’re big fans of short stories here at Stylist. Far more than just shorter versions of novels, this is a format that demands absolute precision.

If your New Year's resolution was to read more fiction, 2025 has an embarrassment of riches to offer. There are big heavy ...

Sour Heart is a short-story collection and bildungsroman in fragments that gives tender, ferocious attention to the lives of young Chinese-American women. Tender by Sofia Samatar (Small Beer ...

Sometimes it’s a poetry collection I can finish in an ... In their spareness, novellas and short novels — I’m counting any story longer than about 80 pages and any novel shorter than about ...

Cancel any time. Here’s a treat for the James Lee Burke fans in the crowd: a new short-story collection. Here’s a treat for the James Lee Burke fans in the crowd: a new short-story collection.