Category: New Yorker 2009

>“There once lived a girl who was killed, then brought back to life.” That’s a fairly stunning opening sentence, it seems to me. And…

>This is an excerpt from Eggers’s new book, due out in October. It’s based on his screenplay, which is based on Maurice Sendak’s “Where…

>Fragmentation suits this story, and is the perfect vehicle for Alexie’s use of humor to explore serious topics. Here we have a narrator—like many…

>Ferris has a novel coming out in January (The Unnamed) but this story doesn’t seem to be an excerpt from that, for which I’m…

>Although I don’t have any real complaints about this story, and it kept me engaged right to the last sentence, I can’t say I…

>This story, which will be included in a collection to be published this year, is among the year’s best in The New Yorker. The…

>This fiction is almost certainly from Moore’s forthcoming novel, and in my opinion it does not work as a story. There’s a bit of…

>I’m at a loss to explain this story, although I enjoyed reading it for the suspense. So I welcome (invite!) anyone to offer an…

>Now that’s a story. My favorite of the year so far, I think. As protagonists go, Julian Smith is not very likable (proof, in…

>One more story from the summer fiction issue (and one that is readable online only if you’re a registered subscriber). This one, by Edna…