Ziegler, a professor of writing at Columbia University, collects hundreds of short pieces, all under 1,250 words, in this handy anthology of Western writing. Ziegler's introduction draws attention to ...

There are many reasons to celebrate this year’s centenary of Elizabeth Bishop’s birth, not least of which is the enduring power of her writing and that she led by and large a productive and happy life ...

A new anthology highlights the charms and drawbacks of very brief verse. By Elisa Gabbert I remember where I was when I first read two short poems. One, Margaret Atwood’s “You Fit Into Me” (“you fit ...

Alongside the Bible, another religious book dwells in many Mennonite and Amish homes: the "Martyrs Mirror." Though first published in 1660 to document Anabaptists and others who died for their faith, ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. In the introduction to his quirky book, “Antique Densities: Modern Parables ...

Every year since 2014, I’ve set aside a couple of months to sit down with what amounts to a long shelf of poetry published in the past 12 months. My goal is to review 31 single-author volumes, one for ...

Last week, Stuart Dybek, one of America’s living masters of the short story, published two new, and very different collections. The nine pieces in Paper Lantern: Love Stories are fairly ...

Joey "Deejo" DeCampo, one of the heroes of Stuart Dybek’s comic short story "Blight," about coming of age on Chicago’s South Side "in the years between Korea and Vietnam," wants to write the great ...