The new book “100 Years of the Best American Short Stories” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 752 pp., $30) serves as a meta-anthology that celebrates the series’ long run. Like any institution ...

In addition to his many novels, Stephen King has churned out a large amount of scary short stories. We ranked 10 of the best.

The Best American Short Stories 2022 “Post,” by Alice McDermott, is the first story in the BASS series to focus on the COVID pandemic.A young couple in New York, now friends, nurse each other ...

The story which gives Donald Antrim's The Emerald Light in the Air (Granta, £12.99) its exquisite title might be his best, though "Another Manhattan", about a bipolar man's catastrophic attempt ...

10 best short story collections that are the must-reads. ... But this is the first of Osipov’s collections of stories to be translated into English.

The year delivered an embarrassment of literary riches: George Saunders, one of the world's best short-story writers, returned with a practically perfect new collection; Marianne Wiggins overcame ...

Mavis Gallant wrote short stories full of brutal humor that ... from a YouTube video nine years ago, listening to Fran Lebowitz declare her “the best short-story writer in English.” I ...