Category: New Yorker 2010

> Although the ending of this story fell flat for me, the rest of it was terrific. The unnamed first person narrator is an…

>I don’t know the work of the Irish writer Claire Keegan, but I like this story very much. Although the precise conflict isn’t immediately…

>I have little to say about this story. It is framed, as some other Bolaño stories are, as a story told to him by…

>Kevin Barry has a novel coming out, but based on its title, I’d guess this story is just a story. (But I could be…

>Ants? When I saw that this week’s story was by E.O. Wilson, I figured we were in for something unusual. But ants? Move along,…

>Why is this author called “T. Coraghessan Boyle” in The New Yorker, but “T.C. Boyle” everywhere else? (He also has a story in this…

>This “story” is actually an excerpt from Egan’s forthcoming novel, A Visit from the Goon Squad, which, according to Random House, is about a…

>And so begins a new year of New Yorker stories. Starting with: This story by Uwem Akpan began well enough, steeped in conflict. The…