>The New Yorker: "Three" by Andrea Lee

>The pleasure in reading this story is in the language, which is often beautiful. That’s pleasure enough for me, but as a story I…

>The New Yorker: "The Noble Truths of Suffering" by Aleksandar Hemon

>Although I have some doubts about the ending, I thoroughly enjoyed reading this story, probably because I like stories with unsavory protagonists. Here we…

>The New Yorker: "A Spoiled Man" by Daniyal Mueenuddin

>This is the second story of Mueenuddin’s to appear in The New Yorker since I began this project, the first being in August 2007….

>The New Yorker: "Face" by Alice Munro

>This is the third Munro story of the year, the first two being “Free Radicals” and “Deep-Holes.” And for most of this one, I…

>The New Yorker: "Gorse is Not People" by Janet Frame

>When the magazine publishes a found story by a dead author, I suppose all the rules go out the window. One can’t expect that…

>The New Yorker: "Awake" by Tobias Wolff

>I like Tobias Wolff’s work very much and I’m reading my way through his new book, Our Story Begins. But I doubt seriously that…

>The New Yorker: "The Dinner Party" by Joshua Ferris

>How about that? I actually like the story this week. I don’t know that it’s great, mind you, and I think the end could…

>The New Yorker: "Clara" by Robert Bolaño

>I find it hard to believe that The New Yorker didn’t have available to it a few thousand stories more interesting than this one….

>The New Yorker: "The Teacher" by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

>The endings of short stories, they say, are supposed to be inevitable and yet surprising. Or something like that. They are NOT, however, supposed…

>The New Yorker: "Yurt" by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

>This story appears to be an excerpt from Bynum’s forthcoming novel, but unlike many New Yorker excerpts, this one is credible as a story,…