At its best, Joy Williams’s “The Pelican Child” is delightfully unhinged; at its worst, willfully weird and repetitive.

Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum, who will be a writing mentor for Whitworth University’s new, low-residency Master of Fine Arts ...

From metropolitan Austin to the North Carolina mountains, Carrie R. Moore’s collection approaches Southern identity from a ...

Salman Rushdie’s latest collection of short stories is entertaining in parts, though uneven, clumsy and unsatisfactory in its ...

The vast majority of Stephen King's short stories and books have been turned into movies, but there's one outlier that still ...

Chandrarathna Bandara With a title reminiscent of Simone de Beauvoir’s Brigitte Bardot and the Lolita Syndrome this most ...

Virago has acquired It Will Come Back to You, a short-story collection from award-winning author Sigrid Nunez.

In her new and second novel A Place for People Like Us, Botha, who is on the faculty of Toronto’s Humber School for Writers, ...

Five Canadian writers have made the shortlist for the 2025 Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. The annual award ...

After 15 years of quiet development, a celebrated filmmaker and essayist makes a fiction debut with "Closing Party and Other ...

Adaptations of Stephen King’s works are not slowing down anytime soon, and a new adaptation of one of his short stories is ...

Every parent wants their children to develop a connection with books. Reading stories not only develops a kid’s vocabulary ...