But there’s good news: Observer is here to help with a list of the best short books to read this January ... It’s a brutal, rapid-fire story of toxic masculinity set against the Argentine ...

Short books offer something to read when you want to surrender to a story for longer than an hour ... the machines and set your chair next to a good lamp. If you like to underline beautiful ...

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Here are three very short stories that can take your leadership from good to great ... experiencing the world,” he realized. “Business books don’t help you to do that.” ...

but if you asked me to choose 960 pages of short stories or that book, it’s no contest: give me the shorts. As for how to find the very best ones, a good way to look for quality is to figure out ...

A short story might be just the thing to get ... And it’s even worse to finally find the time to get back to a good book to realize you’ve left it so long that you’ve forgotten everything ...

If your New Year's resolution was to read more fiction, 2025 has an embarrassment of riches to offer. There are big heavy hitters – like the much-anticipated new release from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, ...

They also strive to be good citizens of an ailing planet and have sex with their partners more than once in a blue moon. In “Comorbidities,” which won the 2023 BBC National Short Story Award ...