Callan Wink’s “One More Last Stand” was first published in Granta 122: Betrayal. Callan Wink first came to my attention when he published his first story in, of all the lucky places, The New Yorker. “Dog Run Moon” proved to be an exciting glimpse at what Wink had to offer. Then around a year later, another
The twenty titles on the longlist of the Women’s Prize for Fiction (formerly the Orange Prize) were announced: A Trick I Learned from a Dead Man, by Kitty Aldridge Life After Life, by Kate Atkinson The Marlowe Papers, by Ros Barber The People of Forever Are Not Afraid, by Shani Boianjiu Gone Girl, by Gillian
I discovered Tavares late last year with his fantastic riffs collected in The Neighborhood (my review here). Over the past few years, though, Dalkey Archive has been publishing the pieces to another of his projects, the four-book Kingdom series. The first book of that series has yet to be translated (apparently they are loosely connected,
Click here to read the abstract of the story on The New Yorker webpage (this week’s story is available only for subscribers). Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s “Checking Out” was originally published in the March 18, 2013 issue of The New Yorker. Trevor I’ve never really enjoyed Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s stories. I’ve never read her novels and in fact have wondered whether
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