short story

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Catherine Zeta-Jones has joined compatriot Sir Anthony Hopkins in starring in a new film based on a Dylan Thomas short story.

From BBC • Apr. 30, 2026

Xuan Juliana Wang is author of the short story collection “Home Remedies” and assistant professor of English at UCLA.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2026

The project, based on a short story by Isaac Bashevis Singer, took 14 years to bring to the screen, but got seven Oscar nominations in 1984.

From Barron's • Mar. 11, 2026

One gets the sense that Miriam’s inner darkness is inseparable from her brilliance, like Georgiana’s birthmark in Hawthorne’s early short story.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

I drafted the piece in a week or two, fiddled with it for another week, then published it as a separate short story.

From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien