There is a quieter, more succinct wing of literature that thrives on pithy conciseness: the short story. The authors of this art form have perfected the concept of this type of storytelling by ...

Lydia Millet's Atavists: Stories has a somewhat misleading title. Is it full of stories? Yes. But they share characters, themes, worries, and even a subplot about watching a certain kind of ...

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 ...