Good morning and welcome back to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. I’m Boris Kachka, the books editor at the Los Angeles Times, and I’m in the mood for fiction — lots of it. Fortunately, my TBR ...

Colloquia Germanica, Vol. 56, No. 2/3, Themenheft: Below Genre: Short Forms and Their Affordances (2023), pp. 273-294 (22 pages) This paper will explore the effects of integrating short poetic forms ...

If “short” is the operative word for the length of what you like to read, you will be sure to find ample pleasure in “ABQ inPrint 8: An Occasional Publication.” In fact, it is a magazine with prose ...

Before the rush of the day begins, these six short books invite stillness. Each one reads like a quiet breath, slowing ...

A panoramic survey of the short story in Francophone literature, based on the history and civilization of France from the Early Modern period, through the beginning of the 21st Century, and including ...

“You know how you sometimes realize it has been raining only when it stops,” Ben Lerner writes in “The Lights,” his fourth collection of poems, “silence falling on the roof, forming rivulets on the ...