Category: New Yorker 2007

>Candy is a nurse’s aide in a V.A. hospital and is taking care of badly wounded soldier she thinks of as El Lobo. At…

>Although I liked this story much more than “The Insufferable Gaucho,” the Bolaño story from a few weeks ago, this still doesn’t appeal to…

>Antonya Nelson is a terrific story-teller and this piece is, I think, typical of her. In it, David Chalmers is an unsympathetic liar who…

>Constance’s Brooklyn apartment has been invaded by her ex-husband, Jerry, who lives in Philadelphia, and their daughter, Joanna, a sculptor who lives – or…

>A husband and wife have grown apart. They let petty grievances fester. They’re both getting older – spreading flesh, hair where it doesn’t belong…

>I’m not sure how many people will agree with me, but for me this is one of the best stories of the year, if…

>The author, Andrei Platonov, died in 1951 and the contributors’ notes indicates that the “complete text” of “Among Animals and Plants” will be included…

>Set in Mexico, this is the story of a doctor in a village who one day delivers a baby who doesn’t cry. He finds…

>Lottie is far from sympathetic. In order to escape her household and feel more grownup, she announces she’s marrying. No one believes her, which…

>In this story, after a realistic beginning in which the lawyer Pereda’s life in Buenos Aires is told – his wife, his children, his…