But there’s good news: Observer is here to help with a list of the best short books to read this January. You can get a head start on your goal right now while you’re at your most motivated.

Short story collections offer the perfect medium for fiction writers to craft compelling, affecting narratives that simply may not warrant a full-length novel to explore the ideas. The short story ...

Short-form data and analysis from Pew Research Center writers and social scientists. To view all our reports and publications, visit our main Publications page. As President-elect Donald Trump returns ...

The preteen years are fraught with emotion and change, and a lot of us forget just how much we learn, encounter and confront ...

Unmissable super short stories by brilliant women. Here is Stylist’s guide to the flash fiction female writers you need to read (plus you could probably do it all in the next hour…).