Category: New Yorker 2009

>Visitation, as in the right of a parent to visit a child under a decree of divorce or separation. Visitation, as in a calamitous…

>Julia has cancer (oh, one of those stories). But she’s a scientist and so she agrees to an experimental treatment. When it doesn’t work,…

>Instead of fiction, the March 16, 2009 issue of The New Yorker included several pages of chilling poems by John Updike, most dated only…

>Tessa Hadley’s “She’s the One” goes directly on my list of best stories of the year, even though I was vaguely unsatisfied by the…

>In addition to this story, which is an excerpt from an unfinished novel, the new issue of The New Yorker includes an article (The…

>I don’t feel much depth to this story, but I did enjoy it, and it isn’t without meaning, as I’ll get to in a…

>This must be weird story month in The New Yorker. The Millhauser allegory was odd enough, but now we’ve got Calvino and the wooly…

>Is this a parable? Or what, exactly? Is the “invasion” of yellow “animate dust” a symbol for something else? Almost certainly, I think, but…

>Hahahahaha! And that’s about all I’ve got to say about this story by George Saunders. Although we’re in third person here, the style is…

>Chenayya is a cart driver who makes deliveries for Ganesh Pai’s furniture shop. The work is crushing, especially when he has to pedal the…