The new book “100 Years of the Best American Short Stories” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 752 pp., $30) serves as a meta-anthology that celebrates the series’ long run.

The perfect lockdown reading choices for whatever your state of mind. Cath Pound picks bite-size tales to reassure, comfort, or unsettle. Now is surely the time to turn to the short story in all ...

5. "The Stormchasers", by Adam Marek (published in The Best British Short Stories 2013). What's it about? A father takes his son out on a drive to try and track down a storm. Why should you read it?

Concise Impact: The best short stories pack a powerful emotional punch within a limited word count. They are masters of suggestion, leaving room for the reader's imagination to fill in the gaps.

The Best American Short Stories of 1948/Prize Stories of 1948: The O. Henry Awards. December 1948 Issue. Share. Save. edited by Martha Foley. Houghton Mifflin, $3.75. edited by Herschel Brickell.

Although the twenty-eight short stories that Miss Foley has fastened on as the best of 1951 are for the major part works of skill and merit on a variety of levels, only six have a validity that ...