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Short stories

June 2024

  • María Bastarós

    Book of the day
    Hungry for What by María Bastarós review – darkly compelling tales from Spain

  • Honor Levy author pic

    Book of the day
    My First Book by Honor Levy; Brat: A Ghost Story by Gabriel Smith reviews – audacious darlings of the digital age

May 2024

  • Alice Munro

    ‘Her stories are life itself’: Yiyun Li on the genius of Alice Munro

  • Alice Munro.

    ‘Reading her stories is like watching a virtuoso pianist perform’: Alice Munro remembered

  • Internet love in My First Book.

    My First Book by Honor Levy review – extremely online

  • Alice Munro

    Five of the best
    Five of the best Alice Munro short stories

  • Alice Munro obituary

  • A life in quotes: Alice Munro

  • Alice Munro, Nobel winner and titan of the short story, dies aged 92

  • The Missing Thread; Table for Two; Cinema Speculation – reviews

  • Story by Rod Serling, Twilight Zone creator, published after 70 years

  • Brooklyn’s bard: Paul Auster’s tricksy fiction captivated a generation

April 2024

  • Illustrations from The Twits Next Door.

    Greg James apologises for suggestion a glass eye would make Roald Dahl Twit disgusting

  • March Book Column for Aus Culture Desk

    Bookmark this
    ‘Candid’, ‘remarkable’, ‘beguiling’: the best Australian books out in April

March 2024

  • Kate Duncan in 2015

    Other lives
    Kate Duncan obituary

  • Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, Catherine Lacey, Caleb Azumah Nelson, AK Blakemore, Mary Jean Chan, Joshua Jones

    Caleb Azumah Nelson and Mary Jean Chan shortlisted for Dylan Thomas prize

  • Rebecca Ivory author pic.

    Free Therapy by Rebecca Ivory review – delicious reveals and rug pulls in stories of aimless women

  • Mary costello

    Barcelona by Mary Costello review – haunting tales of what can’t be said

February 2024

  • Mary Costello.

    Barcelona by Mary Costello review – potent snapshots of solitary confinement

  • Bridget O’Connor.

    Book of the day
    After a Dance: Selected Stories by Bridget O’Connor review – hilariously inappropriate slices of life and death

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