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50 great short stories everyone should read
Modern life is a busy affair. Sometimes, a short story is the perfect solution. Here are fifty groundbreaking examples – both classic and modern – to enjoy this year.
Indira Birnie and Sam Parker
05 JANUARY 2021
The short story, says Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Steven Millhauser, has powers the novel only dreams of. "The novel is the Wal-Mart, the Incredible Hulk, the jumbo jet of literature," he wrote in his brilliant essay, The Ambition of the Short Story. "[And yet] the short story apologises for nothing. It exults in its shortness. It wants to be shorter still. It wants to be a single word. If it could find that word, if it could utter that syllable, the entire universe would blaze up out of it with a roar. That is the outrageous ambition of the short story, that is its deepest faith, that is the greatness of its smallness."
Many of history's finest fiction writers have tried their hand at the short story, and some are even best-known for their prowess at the form (defined, by the way, in the Oxford Dictionary as "a story with a fully developed theme but significantly shorter and less elaborate than a novel"): think of John Cheever, Katherine Mansfield and Tessa Hadley, all of whom appears on this list. Elsewhere, short stories offer newcomers to famous proponents of the novel an opportunity to tip their toe in a new writer's style, or else see a different side of them altogether: James Joyce, Carson McCullers and Ian McEwan are but three giants of literature below who can be accessed in a different way via their skills at short story writing.