Category: New Yorker 2011

> This New Yorker story is available for free, folks, so have at it. It’s more brilliance from David Foster Wallace. That’s the good…

> First, let me say that my subscription to the print New Yorker has run out. Good riddance. I’ve been pretty good about getting…

> Yikes. Not sure I’ve read Gaitskill before, so I was looking forward to this one. But I think I regret it. Narrator’s son…

> The narrator here is Stella, looking back at her childhood living alone with her mother, Edna. We learn from the beginning that Edna…

> This story has the feel of a novel excerpt. Hisham Matar has a new novel coming out in August and I wouldn’t be…

> On a kibbutz in Israel, Zvi Provizor is known as the Angel of Death because he is always delivering news of some disaster…

> The ending here feels rushed to me. In fact, there is an interesting but slightly tedious long first act, where Linda is born,…

> I like Millhauser’s work, and this is well done as far as it goes, but it doesn’t make for much of a story….