Last week I wrote about Revenge, the first book I read by Yoko Ogawa, a name I’d heard many times over the past few years and had always felt I should read. This week I’m writing about Amélie Nothomb’s latest in English, Life Form (Une forme de vie, 2010; tr. from the French by Alison Anderson,
Click here to read the story in its entirety on The New Yorker webpage. Zadie Smith’s “The Embassy of Cambodia” was originally published in the February 11 & 18, 2013 issue of The New Yorker. Trevor I’ve seen on Twitter that this story is getting a lot of interest. This is good, because I’m going to need
I got so much out of reading and reviewing over time each story in Munro’s Dear Life that I’ve decided to go back to the beginning and do the same with her first collection, Dance of the Happy Shades. This is the anchor post, with a brief description of the book as well as links to all of the reviews.
Over the past few years I’ve developed a deep love for William Trevor’s short stories. Particularly this past month, regular visitors here have caught wind of this (and hopefully have sought him out if they did not already know his work). But until now, I had never read one of his novels, and he’s written many in his 84
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