Month: January 2015

January 3, 2015

2015 Reading: VQR, Winter 2015

Virginia Quarterly Review, Winter 2015, Vol. 91, No. 1 I think literary magazines are great, both print and online. My habit, though, is to…
January 2, 2015

2015 Reading: Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift

Gulliver’s travels by Jonathan Swift The edition shown is a beautiful book with illustrations, historical notes, and a few critical essays. I picked it up…
January 1, 2015

The New Yorker: “Under the Sign of the Moon” by Tessa Hadley

March 24, 2014: “Under the Sign of the Moon” by Tessa Hadley Greta, in her 60s, is traveling by train from London to Liverpool…
January 1, 2015

The New Yorker: “The Ways” by Colin Barrett

January 5, 2015: “The Ways” by Colin Barrett Here’s what I didn’t like about this story: (1) Little sense of place. Because Pell has…
January 1, 2015

The New Yorker: “The Relive Box” by T. Coraghessan Boyle

March 17, 2014: “The Relive Box” by T. Coraghessan Boyle I’ve never been much of a T.C. Boyle fan, as readers of my New…