Each short story is a thrilling intellectual adventure, with Aira gleefully demolishing the division between the sciences and the arts. The Atlantic presents: Shorter Stories.

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Short stories for anyone who has felt prodded by well-meaning relatives. Shannon Sanders’s collection, ‘Company,’ chronicles irritating and theatrical encounters with audacious friends ...

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Three dazzling new short-story collections rattle and shake with horror and heartbreak. Credit...John Gall Supported by By Samantha Hunt By the end of BEING HERE (160 pp., University Press of ...

Lydia Millet's characters in Atavists interact and have little dramas of their own — the author's talent is on full display here. Not every story is strong, but they work well together.

SCOTT DETROW, HOST: In her debut short story collection, Aaliyah Bilal writes about one particular community in the U.S. AALIYAH BILAL: The community is a collection of African Americans who were ...

Write a 1,000-word short story in the style of Curtis Sittenfeld that includes these elements, lust, kissing, flip-flops, regret, and middle age. susannah meadows.