Alice Munro: “To Reach Japan”
Trevor looks at “To Reach Japan,” the first story in Alice Munro’s Dear Life.
Trevor looks at “To Reach Japan,” the first story in Alice Munro’s Dear Life.
Alice Munro’s new collection of short stories, Dear Life, is out today. We’ll be reading and reviewing each one. This post introduces the book and contains links to each of the reviews.
This week’s New Yorker fiction is Maile Meloy’s “Demeter.” Read the full post.
Trevor reviews Gonçalo M. Tavares’s The Neighborhood, translated from the Portuguese by Roopanjali Roy. Read the full post.
Trevor reviews Frederik Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth’s classic science fiction novel The Space Merchants, just published as part of The Library of America’s American Science Fiction: Nine Classic Novels of the 1950s. Read the full post.
This week’s New Yorker fiction is David Gilbert’s “Member/Guest.” Read the full post.
Trevor reviews the first book in Patrick Leigh Fermor’s three-book project about his walking trip across Europe in the early 1930s, A Time of Gifts.
Trevor reviews Nancy Richler’s The Imposter Bride. Read the full post.