Plus “The Deserters” by Mathias Énard and “Glass Century” by Ross Barkan.

As the new director of the Melbourne Writers Festival, Veronica Sullivan has tried to create a program with broad appeal.

The top selections in poetry, flash fiction and artwork for Day 21 of the Sehri Tales challenge; prompt: Drinks with a Ghost Besides the brilliantly unconventional addition of an Intelligence ...

If I’d met Johana Gustawsson without ever reading her fiction, I wouldn’t have thought ... And that’s why I think the genre’s popular – it’s a treasure hunt to find out about the ...

Is he her “yajamana" then, her owner, and she a servant with a degree? Banu Mushtaq’s short story collection Heart Lamp opens with this scorching exercise in definitions. Zeenat, a recently ...

paperback, $18.95), which vaults the reader into the world of Agatha Dorn, an irritable archivist and passionate devotee of mystery fiction — particularly the work of Gladden Green (think Agatha ...

which Indian language and region has a more popular short story writing tradition and a rich body of short fiction that you think should be translated more into English to make it accessible to ...

It is said that those who read live many lives, but those who immerse themselves in Namita Gokhale’s short story anthology Life on Mars may find that they have traversed entire worlds — worlds where ...

But in the 1950s, commercial demand for short fiction evaporated, likely because of the rise of television, and the form began migrating to small literary quarterlies. Among well-paying ...

Books detailing life as a musician, the future of the ocean and coming of age in China are among the shortlisted titles for the 2025 Women's Prize for Non-Fiction. The £30,000 (approx.