“We have professors of poetry and professors of ethnicized literature, but no professors of the short story,” Michael J. Collins said to a Stanford crowd on Tuesday. He joked that it may be because it ...

It's easy to feel like you don't have time to read literature — especially hefty works by classic novelists. Between busy jobs and hectic weekends, cracking open a lengthy book that tackles humanity's ...

A translation of a collection of short stories written by Banu Mushtaq, a writer and advocate based in Hassan, has won an English PEN translation award for the year 2024. Deepa Basthi has translated ...

Bharath Kumar, whose short story ‘Thambi, Thambi’ was selected for the 2024 Commonwealth Short Story Prize, says he isn’t thinking of writing a novel anytime soon. He wants to focus on building his ...