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

A short story might be just the thing to get you back ... difficult time to sit down and concentrate on something like a book, as living through a global pandemic means that many of us have ...

In “Look at Me” (1983), Anita Brookner’s third novel, a research librarian named Frances Hinton narrates the story of ... the ...

I’ve been an Ernest Hemingway aficionado since my teens, so I was pleased to read the Library of America’s collection of the ...

The Good Bride” centers around a woman whose family (and nature) seem conspired against her. “Every Day a Little Death: Crime ...

We publish a new and exciting short story every week ... standalone (ie not a chapter of a book or ongoing work). The story must be fiction and must be in English. Submissions are welcome from ...