The Big Question: What is equality legislation, and why is the Pope so concerned about it?Why are we asking this now?Short circuits: A roundup of new short fiction from some of the country's best writersOf all the ways authors deliver words to us, short fiction might be the most unsettled as a form. Some years, there are hardly any story collections published and there's discussion about the death of the short story. But then we hit a season like this one, when some of the best writers turned to short fiction.
