Lovers of classic Russian literature and human psychology will enjoy this story. Where to Read: Classic Short Stories. Anton Chekhov in his study in Yalta, circa 1895–1900. In The Aleph and ...

Can’t concentrate for 250+ pages right now? A short story might be just the thing to get you back into reading regularly. Spending lots of time at home over the past year has given us more time ...

That’s when the best short stories swoop in to satisfy my love for reading. While short books are also great for quick reads, short stories are an even more bite-sized literary treat.

Needless to say, sleep would not come quickly!” Readers share their favorite books to read during the Halloween season.

Chartbeat, a webpage analytics company popular with newsrooms, recently released its annual round-up of the 100 most-read news stories of 2023, ranked by how much time readers spent on the article.

This week’s Stylist Short Story is Seasoning by Jo Gatford; it explores childhood, family dynamics and the comfort of food, set around the sometimes fraught, sometimes joyful environment of a ...

An excerpt from ‘A Bouquet of Dead Flowers’, by Swadesh Deepak, translated from the Hindi by Jerry Pinto, Pratik Kanjilal, ...

You can read “The Haunted Palace” at Poetry Foundation. Poe’s The Oval Portrait is one of his shorter stories, but one whose intensity is not limited by length. The short story follows the ...

The first short story I ever read was, “The Lottery,” by Shirley ... Released in April 2005, the book contains 100 of his most notable works and is a great way to introduce yourself to his ...

The 2025 CBC Short Story Prize is currently accepting submissions until Nov. 1, 2024. The winner will receive $6,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts, a two-week writing residency at Banff Centre ...

But intentionally reading more short stories made me realize that I’d underestimated the form ... the Argentinian writer has published more than 100 books. In The Musical Brain, his first short-story ...

In “Framed,” an advocate for the wrongly accused joins forces with John Grisham to tell stories of justice denied.