This poem is available only for subscribers. Click here for the abstract. Famed, acclaimed, 86-year-old poet John Ashbery has a new poem in this week’s issue of The New Yorker: “Gravy for the Prisoners.” Ashbery doesn’t mess around: the reader knows from the strange title that there will be cross currents in the poem. Why would prisoners
Sabina Berman is a well regarded playwright, film director, and screenwriter, having written a screenplay for, among other things, Nicole Krauss’s The History of Love for director Alfonso Cuarón (though it has not been made into a film yet in the nearly eight years since it was announced). I was looking forward to her novel, Me, Who Dove
Click here to read the story in its entirety on The New Yorker webpage. Yu Hua’s “Victory” (tr. from the Chinese by Allan Barr) was originally published in the August 26, 2013 issue of The New Yorker. Betsy “Victory,” by Yu Hua, begins with an appealing story telling style: several mysteries are presented to the reader — a young woman
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