Penguin Books India has acquired a collection of stories from Uttar Pradesh, authored by Tanuja Chandra. The book ‘Tales from...
Short Stories
By Manu Mahajan The girl would have been more beautiful had she not been sobbing for breath. She was attractive...
by Vasika Udurawane Flash Fiction International: Very Short Stories from Around the World James Thomas (Editor), Robert Shapard (Editor), Christopher Merrill (Editor) W W Norton &...
David Davidar on his fascination with short stories and how he put together A Clutch of Indian Masterpieces: The Hindu...
Primal Woman, a collection of translated short stories by the late Sunil Gangopadhyay reveals his preoccupation with man’s inhumanity: Open...
A remarkable collection of short stories translated from Urdu that are both thought-provoking and enduring: The Hindu Centuries ago, Urdu...
Dr. Usha Bande is an Indian writer and critic who lives in Shimla. She writes in Marathi, Hindi and English...
Huang Chun-ming’s new book of short stories and vignettes, translated by Howard Goldblatt, fails to engage: Taipei Times It would...
The protagonists in Xue Yiwei's short stories may encounter a variety of scenarios, but theyinevitably find themselves making the same choice: to run away. They run because they lack a sense of belonging in the place they live. The efforts of anindividual are never enough to belong to a collective. This is what comes to mind when I close Taxi Driver, a collection of short stories by Xue. The collection, which was published thisyear, is a series of stories that revolve around the city ofShenzhen. Read More
Short story authors used to need a collection of stories before securing a book deal. Writer Zhang Wei and book...
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