For the past 100 years, the annual Best American Short Stories anthologies have sought to demonstrate what can be accomplished in that pint of prose we call a short story. The implicit question of ...

The new book “100 Years of the Best American Short Stories” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 752 pp., $30) serves as a meta-anthology that celebrates the series’ long run. Like any institution ...

The Great Gatsby is 100 years old this year ... how great Fitzgerald was at his best and primed the larger public to remember ...

Maintaining relevance after 100 years ... This short novel explores themes of class, the dark truth of the American Dream, corruption, and obsession. A hundred years later, the ’20s of a new ...