Put down the tome – there are easier ways to meet that 2025 reading goal. Reading shouldn’t be stressful, but sometimes it’s fun to turn up the heat with a challenge. Just don’t talk to us the last ...

Since we doubled up on books in June to celebrate Pride Month, we read a total of 13 books this year. We started 2025 with ...

As the saying goes, we all have stories to tell. For some authors, these stories happen to be short. Just as the price tag of a product doesn’t signal its quality, neither does an author’s brevity ...

Good morning and welcome back to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. I’m Jim Ruland, a fiction writer, punk historian and a longtime contributor to the Los Angeles Times, and this summer I’ll be ...

In 2021, Gini Alhadeff, author and translator, brought a new concept to the venerable publisher New Directions. What if, she proposed, New Directions published short books—novellas or long stories—as ...

Aviary Books in New Bedford is hosting a marathon reading of Herman Melville short stories on Jan. 2. The event is timed to ...

Some books arrive quietly and leave a lasting ache. This listicle brings together ten short works that hold grief, desire, fear and tenderness with rare precision. From psychological breakdowns to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sughnen Yongo is a Midwest writer covering Black women, pop culture. Gabriel García Márquez didn’t just write stories—he created ...