Maylis de Kerangal’s new story collection, “Canoes,” is a moving, surprising exploration of grief and friendship across seven short stories and one novella, set in France, Canada and the United States ...
There are so many reasons to love short stories; not least their ability to immerse us in new worlds in the time it takes to commute to work, or the common themes that weave through anthologies to ...
Schwarz’s most famous work was the 1937 short story In Dreams Begin Responsibilities, another dark story which depicts a man watching the disintegration of his parents’ relationship play out in a ...
It’s one of King’s best short stories, and the sheer force of his depiction of the Devil will leave you squirming. This one is more of a novella than a short story, but it appears in one of ...