I want to introduce a short story I wrote to a friend who hasn't read it yet. When I try to write the plot, I end up writing ...

When you reread a short story you have finished writing, you find that the time of day does not match between the first and ...

In Bring Up the Bodies (Picador, 2013), the second book of her Cromwell trilogy, Hilary Mantel writes: “There are no endings. If you think so, you are deceived as to their nature. They are all ...

For many years, I assumed that the appeal of a short story was that it was, well, short. Instead of slowly reading a novel over weeks, the reader of these bite-size plots can experience character ...

Welcome to Lit Trivia, the Book Review’s multiple-choice quiz designed to test your knowledge of literature. This week’s installment asks you to identify the titles and authors of memorable short ...