Written Reviews

Alice Munro: Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage

May 24, 2019

Trevor and Betsy look at Alice Munro’s 2001 collection of stories, Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage.

Jokha Alharthi: Celestial Bodies

May 23, 2019

Paul reviews this year’s winner of the Man Booker International Prize, Celestial Bodies, by Jokha Alharthi, translated from the Arabic by Marilyn Booth.

The Man Booker International Prize Winner

May 22, 2019

Yesterday the winner of this year’s Man Booker International Prize was announced.

Ben Lerner: “Ross Perot and China”

May 20, 2019

This week’s New Yorker fiction is Ben Lerner’s “Ross Perot and China,” an excerpt from his forthcoming novel The Topeka School.

Alice Munro: “My Mother’s Dream”

May 17, 2019

Trevor and Betsy look at “My Mother’s Dream,” a surprisingly upbeat story that concludes The Love of a Good Woman.

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