On Edith Wharton, Vivek Shanbhag and Willa Cather, in a week of choosing short stories over social media.

Ms. Renkl is a contributing Opinion writer who covers flora, fauna, politics and culture in the American South. When the news is one report of human suffering — or environmental degradation or ...

You don’t read short stories. Well, you probably don’t – statistically speaking. Whenever I speak to friends, too, they’re always reading novels or nonfiction. They look at me with curiosity and ...

Reading shouldn’t be stressful, but sometimes it’s fun to turn up the heat with a challenge to see how many books you can read in a year. Just don’t talk to us the last two weeks of December – some of ...

A Don DeLillo novel; a Joy Williams short story. By Molly Young Dear readers, This week’s theme is “short and sweet”: Short sentences, short stories, a sweet spot of a prose pair, and that’s all she ...

2026 Reading List: Start New Year With These Best Authors Of Fiction Novels The new year 2026 demands a fresh set of books ...

NEW BEDFORD -- As the downtown area prepares for the annual "Moby-Dick" Marathon at the New Bedford Whaling Museum on Saturday, Jan 4, Aviary Books is getting into the spirit with their first Melville ...

Aviary Books in New Bedford is hosting a marathon reading of Herman Melville short stories on Jan. 2. The event is timed to coincide with the "Moby-Dick" Marathon at the Whaling Museum. Readers are ...