Short stories

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• Readers suggest the 10 best short-story collections

  22 Oct 2014: Last week we brought you our 10 best short-story collections. Here, we present your thoughts on what should have made the list

• Tom Hanks publishes short story in the New Yorker

  21 Oct 2014: The Apollo 13 star sees his first piece of fiction, about four friends who plan a trip to the moon, in the pages of the illustrious magazine, writes Alison Flood

• The 10 best short story collections

  17 Oct 2014: Elizabeth Day chooses the sharpest and smartest of small but perfectly formed works of fiction

• Transgressive literature will always be a minority pursuit

  13 Oct 2014: Polari first book prize-winner Diriye Osman on why creative writing courses and grants aren’t barriers to becoming a rebellious writer

• Stay Up With Me by Tom Barbash – sumptuously melancholy short stories

  11 Oct 2014: This debut collection about dissatisfied New Yorkers is full of ordinary revelations. By Ian Sansom

• Time's Mistress by Steven Savile review – 13 stories of dark fantasy

  10 Oct 2014: With a flair for finding beauty in the macabre, Savile uses subtle horror to deliver poignant insights into love and humanity, writes Keith Brooke

• Stone Mattress review – Margaret Atwood's new collection of short stories

  10 Oct 2014: Horror stories, fantastical worlds and something very nasty in a storage unit: a sly take on the memories and myth-making of old age. By Justine Jordan

• Mr Bones by Paul Theroux – when white masculinity comes unstuck

  9 Oct 2014: In stories of unknowable fathers and bewildered children, Theroux reveals the eccentricity and violence beneath the surface of ordinary American life. By Patrick Flanery

• Truman Capote’s previously unknown boyhood tales published

  9 Oct 2014: Four stories written by Breakfast at Tiffany’s author between ages of 14 and 17 appear in Die Zeit, with 17 more due in 2015

• Read the 2014 BBC national short story award winner

  1 Oct 2014: Lionel Shriver’s tale of a young traveller’s brush with death, Kilifi Creek, has won the BBC prize. Read it below
  

• Hilary Mantel’s Thatcher tale, Exhibit B and the failure to tell facts from fantasy

  30 Sep 2014: Letters: The reaction in these two cases shows the same failure to distinguish between historical facts on the one hand, and an imaginative response to them on the other

• Lionel Shriver’s tale of Kenyan calamity wins BBC national short story award

  30 Sep 2014: Kilifi Creek, which tells of a gap-year traveller’s near-death experience, beats stories by Zadie Smith and Rose Tremain, writes Alison Flood

• A brief survey of the short story: Barry Hannah

  30 Sep 2014: Chris Power: A writer who captured the violence, bigotry and wild humour of the American deep south in line after unpredictable line

• Stone Mattress review – Margaret Atwood’s deft touch illuminates old age

  28 Sep 2014: In this collection of nine stories, Margaret Atwood peels away layers of the human experience, says Anita Sethi

• The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher – Hilary Mantel’s alluring portraits of interior disquiet

  28 Sep 2014: Hilary Mantel’s short stories explore isolation, pain and distress, writes Robert Collins

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