The short story emerged in a blitzkrieg of 19th-century magazine publishing, reached its apotheosis with Chekhov, and became one of the great 20th-century art forms. William Boyd reveals his taxonomy ...

After finishing Ben Shattuck’s masterful new book of short stories, “The History of Sound” I did something I hadn’t done for more than two decades, I started reading it over again from the ...

A short story has velocity and verve, and the best ones create an immediate, ... For a sobering encounter with history, turn to the sections “Dread” and “Disasters, ...

Ben Shattuck's collection of short stories "The History of Sound" is now out. (Author photo courtesy Andreas Burgess; book cover courtesy Penguin Random House) If you are not in the habit of ...

History | July 23, 2024. The Real Story Behind Netflix’s ‘The Decameron’ Loosely based on Giovanni Boccaccio’s 14th-century collection of short stories, the series follows a group of ...

Mushtaq has become the first author writing in Kannada to win the prize for her short story collection Heart Lamp ...