Category: New Yorker 2007

>Tom is an aging, difficult actor working in Berlin and he’s also an inconsiderate lover who has been left a message by his girlfriend…

>This is a retrospective story about the narrator’s family in the fifties. It’s a family that will look familiar to a lot of people,…

>Luda and Milena (both diminutives for Ludmila) are Russian immigrants in an ESL class in New York. They are different, but the same, and…

>This isn’t a story I recommend, except for the fact that it is set in Pakistan and you don’t see many such stories. Here,…

>I’m a sucker for a story set in Southeast Asia and I definitely liked this one by T Cooper (apparently the lack of a…

>The title character is a loud brassy woman who likes older men (“I like a old man,” she says) and has taken up residence…

>This week we have a series of short fictions by Daniil Kharms, a Russian writer who died in 1942. They might be called flash…

>Although I can picture the family in this story and Kennedy’s language is lyrical and fluid, ultimately I don’t find anything terribly interesting here…

>Constance, now that her daughter is away at college, has finally left her husband with the intent of living with her boyfriend of several…

>The theme is vanishing (memory, girlfriend, donut girl, cars in snow, tire tracks, digital pictures, etc.). Ceil has dumped Jack after asking him the…