Readers pick short stories for an experience—something new, something enchanting, something that gives them a reason to read.

Tom out on his quad bike all the waking hours, with old Chip running beside him. Don’t make him go out with you every day, ...

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

no big book-signing tour. The real world was now intruding horrifically.

Heart Lamp is a literary portrait of life on the margins, blending everyday detail with social critique, and filtered through ...

The International Booker Prize has announced the six books shortlisted for its annual celebration of the best new fiction ...

Dressed in a plain polo shirt, classic washed-out jeans, thick eyeglasses, and a sling laptop bag, Johannes Chua—our ...

PEOPLE can exclusively reveal the shortlist for the prestigious literary prize, which honors novels, short story collections ...

A publisher based in Broadway is putting together a book of short stories taking place in the Shenandoah Valley, and he’s ...

What It’s About: The latest from The Verge journalist and novelist Nguyen (“New Waves”) follows four Vietnamese American cousins whose lives are thrown into disarray after the U.S. government ...

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.

Students of Classes 4,5,7 and 8 have been affected by a delay in the printing and distribution of the new National Council of ...