Herman Melville has a short story of a man tired of the routing and the attorney who can't understand.

A brave hummingbird does what she can to fight a fire in Sascha Alper's new book. It was one of the last projects illustrator Jerry Pinkney worked on before he died. His son Brian finished it for him.

Sydney Sweeney Turning an English Teacher’s Reddit Short Story Into a Movie Warner Bros. has picked up the package for the ‘Gone Girl’-style tale, which has Sweeney starring and producing ...

Illustration: Elizabeth Smelov The federal program for small-business lending is undergoing its biggest makeover in decades.

For Valentine's Day, enjoy this re-reprint of Kurt Vonnegut's AI love story "EPICAC," which we first featured 40 years ago.

Zoë Meager of Aotearoa New Zealand has been announced as the winner of the 2025 Bristol Short Story Prize. Meager’s evocative story Things with bodies was selected from 1,800 entries by this year’s ...