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Posted inEditor's Pick

I’m Looking to Jump Ship Sooner Than I Should: A Conversation with Percival Everett

by Krista Stevens February 8, 2023February 8, 2023

“We abandon stories. They don’t end.”

"The words 'short story' picked out on a grungy old typewriter."
Posted inStory

Ten Outstanding Short Stories to Read in 2022

by Longreads January 11, 2022October 19, 2022

Longtime contributor Pravesh Bhardwaj read and shared 276 short stories on the #longreads Twitter hashtag in 2021. Here are his favorites.

Posted inEditor's Pick

How Twitter Can Ruin a Life

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands June 30, 2021October 19, 2022

Isabel Fall’s story has been held up as an example of “cancel culture run amok.”

Posted inArts & Culture, Curation, Story

Ten Outstanding Short Stories to Read in 2021

by Longreads January 11, 2021February 22, 2023

Pravesh Bhardwaj read and and shared 304 short stories on the #longreads Twitter hashtag in 2020. Here are his favorites.

Edwidge Danticat
Posted inStory

10 Outstanding Short Stories to Read in 2020

by Longreads January 15, 2020December 30, 2022

Stories by Edwidge Danticat, Etgar Keret, Valeria Luiselli, and more.

Posted inBooks, Fiction, Story

Navigation

by Longreads March 20, 2019October 19, 2022

“The whiteboy said there was nothing left for me in Houston, he said that I didn’t have to punish myself, and he said my name, my actual name.”

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Posted inFiction, Reading List

10 Outstanding Short Stories to Read in 2019

by Longreads January 17, 2019October 19, 2022

Stories by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Min Jin Lee, and Saul Bellow.

Posted inBooks, Fiction, Story

The Haväng Dolmen

by Longreads January 15, 2019October 19, 2022

A trip to a Swedish stone-age burial site gives an archaeologist too close a look at death.

Posted inArts & Culture, Essays & Criticism, Highlight, Nonfiction, Unapologetic Women

Of Politics and Prose

by Sari Botton October 4, 2018October 19, 2022

Roxane Gay writes about the necessary and inevitable influence of politics on literature at this fraught time in history.

Posted inEditor's Pick

What Does a Political Story Look Like in 2018?

by Sari Botton October 3, 2018October 19, 2022

An essay in which Roxane Gay reveals how she chose the short stories for inclusion in Best American Short Stories 2018 — with an eye toward writing that engaged with the political in thoughtful, engaging, diverse and inclusive ways.

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