Isabel Allende has a new short story out, a delightfully ribald tale of impossible love — with plenty of sex-at-first-sight. The impossible part is because the lovers' adventure takes place in a ...

Helen Schulman is not afraid to make you squirm. Across her long and distinguished career as a novelist and short story writer, she has fearlessly explored the awkward collisions between our private ...

She wants to live life to the fullest; he wants to live forever. Sophie and Martin are at the 2012 Gordon Research Conference on the Biology of Aging in Ventura, California. It is a foggy February ...

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 ...

In Kenyan author Dennis Mugaa’s debut collection of interconnected short stories that begins in the early 1960s, Half Portraits Under Water runs chronologically until today, loosely following several ...