Category: New Yorker 2008

>This is Mueenuddin’s second story in The New Yorker in the past couple of months, and third since August of 2007. While the story…

>I’m torn. On the one hand, this is a marvelous story, filled with tension, beautiful language, an exotic setting, and resounding symbolism (the meaning…

>The contributor notes this week tell us that Jonathan Lethem has a new novel coming out in 2009, news that raises some question in…

>As I did last year, I plan to name a Best New Yorker Story of the Year. Last year I came up with a…

>Please. Are they serious? First, this comment is late because my copy of the magazine didn’t arrive. Still hasn’t arrived. So I printed out…

>I assume that this story is included in honor of Halloween, since it does feature the Devil as one of its characters. Sort of….

>This story by the recent Nobel Prize winner Le Clézio is NOT online so you’ll either have to find a copy of the magazine…

>What’s odd about this story is the sense of being lost in time. When the story begins, the reader doesn’t know quite from what…

>This story isn’t as good as the last Yiyun Li story in The New Yorker (“A Man Like Him”). After the first couple of…

>Anyone who has read Daniel Alarcón’s Lost City Radio will, I imagine, recognize the style and cadence of this story. Like that novel, “The…