>The New Yorker Story of the Year

>In what may be a sign for the Iowa Caucuses later this week, the voting for Story of the Year was extremely close. In…

>The New Yorker: "Year’s End" by Jhumpa Lahiri

>Is there any doubt why I waited until today (the last day of the year) to comment on this story? It’s also not online,…

>The New Yorker: "Beginners" by Raymond Carver

>In addition to the story “Beginners” by Raymond Carver, which is a restoration of his original version of the famous story that was published…

>The New Yorker: "The Arbus Factor" by Lore Segal

>The photograph accompanying this story (which is not online, it seems) conveys more, I thought, than the story itself (it’s of an woman with…

>The New Yorker: "Natalie" by Anne Enright

>This story does little for me. The voice is interesting – a teen Dublin girl – but that’s just not enough. The girl and…

>The New Yorker: "Alma" by Junot Diaz

>The Winter fiction issue of The New Yorker kicks off with this very short piece by Junot Díaz. This story is all about the…

>The New Yorker: Vote for the Year’s Best Story

>After much thought and toin-cossing, I have narrowed the choice down to just five stories – the five best stories that have appeared in…

>The New Yorker: 2007’s Top-Ten Stories

>The year’s not over yet, quite, but it’s time to name the Top-Ten New Yorker Stories of 2007. Although I retain the role of…

>The New Yorker: "The King of Sentences" by Jonathan Lethem

>Although this was fun to read, and seems like it must have been fun to write, it doesn’t do enough for me to climb…

>The New Yorker: "Found Objects" by Jennifer Egan

>Now this is a story. Sasha has been seeing a therapist because she knows she has a problem. She even knows subconsciously that it…