From surrealist romps to heartfelt examinations of family, love, and grief, these collections prove great things can come in small packages. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This ...

Good morning and welcome back to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. I’m Jim Ruland, a fiction writer, punk historian and a longtime contributor to the Los Angeles Times, and this summer I’ll be ...

Every time I get a recommendation request where one of the five recent reads contains a collection of short stories, I get extra excited because it means I may be able to recommend a book of short ...

The remarkable new short story collection by Yukio Mishima, “Voices of the Fallen Heroes and Other Stories” is newly translated and published 55 years after his very public death in 1970. Never before ...

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. In her debut short story ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...