A great short story cannot be topped. Here are seven recommendations to tempt even dedicated non-short story readers.

These short story collections are perfect for fiction fans. Whether you have a minute or an hour, they'll completely blow you away!

Check out the 25 new short story collections you should read this summer below — because warm weather season is the best time to read short fiction.

In honor of National Short Story Month, Jane Ciabattari picks a few she’s read recently that surprised, moved, and delighted her—and ones you should seek out.

Author Elaine Hsieh Chou dazzles with rich, highly original and sometimes shocking stories in her new collection of fiction, ...

It has been anthologized in such collections as the O. Henry Prize Stories, Best American Short Stories and "The Granta Book of the American Short Story." An edition of his "Selected Stories" was ...

A short story, because it is short, can forgivably push boundaries, take risks. A short story attends to language in a gymnastic way that would exhaust any reader past 20 pages.

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with author Aaliyah Bilal about her new book Temple Folk, which tells the stories of dozens of Black Muslims over the course of several decades.

Alan Cheuse reviews this summer's outpouring of new short story collections. He says they run the gamut from the experimental to the fantastic to deep realism. The collections are Sorry Please ...