Category: New Yorker 2008

July 3, 2008

>The New Yorker: "Thirteen Hundred Rats" by T. Coraghessan Boyle

>Knowing that T.C. Boyle’s fans won’t be happy with my comments, I have to say that this story did nothing for me. First of…
June 26, 2008

>The New Yorker: "Deep-holes" by Alice Munro

>I may be wrong, but I have a feeling that only diehard Munro-heads are going to love this one. That doesn’t include me, as…
June 18, 2008

>The New Yorker: "The Headstrong Historian" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

>It is rare for a short story to cover the entire span of a person’s life, but this one does that and more. It…
June 9, 2008

>The New Yorker: "Natasha" by Vladimir Nabokov

>It was reported recently that Nobokov’s son, Dmitri, had promised his father that a novel he was working on would at the time of…
June 6, 2008

>The New Yorker: "Tits-up in a Ditch" by Annie Proulx

>Let me first point out that we had another Annie Proulx story just four weeks ago. It wasn’t great and neither is this one….
June 5, 2008

>The New Yorker: "Don’t Cry" by Mary Gaitskill

>Although because of the subject matter (adoption) and the setting (Ethiopia) I was captivated by this story, what I will remember about it most…
June 5, 2008

>The New Yorker: Summer Fiction Issue

>The current New Yorker is the Summer Fiction Issue. Not only does it include stories by Mary Gaitskill, Annie Proulx and Vladimir Nabokov, we…
May 31, 2008

>The New Yorker: "A Night at the Opera" by Janet Frame

>This story, the contributor note tells us, was found among Janet Frame’s papers after her death in 2004. I have not read other work…
May 23, 2008

>The New Yorker: "The Full Glass" by John Updike

>I probably have a duty to dislike a story by John Updike in The New Yorker, but, unfortunately, this is one I do like….
May 15, 2008

>The New Yorker: "East Wind" by Julian Barnes

>I’ve never been a fan of Julian Barnes and this piece isn’t going to do anything to change that. The story involves Vernon, a…
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