Rash invention: Williams, Booth, and building without blueprints
Reading Time: 4 minutesEssay by Richard Smyth Invention isn’t always in fashion. Readers of short fiction, in particular,...
Non-Fiction
The Short Story Interview: Ingrid Persaud
Reading Time: 7 minutesIngrid Persaud is a writer and artist from Trinidad and Tobago. She came to writing...
The Short Story Interview: Jonathan Kemp
Reading Time: 9 minutesInterview by Denise McCulloch I was intrigued by the Theodor Adorno quote that opens Twentysix...
Professor Charles E. May: What Makes a Great Short Story? (No.4 ‘Tea at the Midland’ by David Constantine)
Reading Time: 8 minutesArticle By Professor Charles E. May David Constantine, “Tea at the Midland” 2010 BBC National...
The Short Story Interview: Nicholas Royle
Reading Time: 9 minutesInterview by Rupert Dastur Hi Nick, thank you for speaking to us. You have long...
The Uncanny, by Sigmund Freud
Reading Time: 50 minutesThe “Uncanny” 1 (1919) SIGMUND FREUD I It is only rarely that a psychoanalyst...
The Short Story Review: ‘Collected Stories’ by John McGahern
Reading Time: 4 minutes Review by James Holden When the Irish writer John McGahern died in 2006, The...
Professor Charles E. May: What Makes a Great Short Story? (No.3 ‘The not-Dead and the Saved’ by Kate Clanchy)
Reading Time: 7 minutesArticle by Professor Charles E. May Kate Clanchy, “The Not-Dead and the Saved” 2009 BBC...
The Short Story Interview: Anushka Jasraj
Reading Time: 6 minutesInterview by Jennifer Emelife Congratulations on being regional winner of the Commonwealth short story prize...