Click here to read the story in its entirety on The New Yorker webpage. Jeffrey Eugenides’s “Find the Bad Guy” was originally published in the November 18, 2013 issue of The New Yorker. Trevor I consider myself a big fan of Jeffrey Eugenides, though most of that is on the strength of his first novel The … Read more
Click here to read the abstract of the story on The New Yorker webpage (this week’s story is available only for subscribers). Chinelo Okparanta’s “Benji” was originally published in the November 11, 2013 issue of The New Yorker. Update: When the following post was written, neither Chinelo Okparanta nor The New Yorker had acknowledged any relationship … Read more
Click here to read the abstract of the story on The New Yorker webpage (this week’s story is available only for subscribers). Thomas McGuane’s “Weight Watchers” was originally published in the November 4, 2013 issue of The New Yorker. Trevor I love Thomas McGuane, so I’m thrilled to see another story by him in this week’s … Read more
Click here to read the story in its entirety on The New Yorker webpage. Haruki Murakami’s “Samsa in Love” (tr. from the Japanese by Ted Goossen) was originally published in the October 28, 2013 issue of The New Yorker. I’ve never liked anything I’ve read of Murakami (which has been little), but obviously this is some … Read more
Trevor and Betsy review Alice Munro’s “The Bear Came Over the Mountain,” republished in this weeks issue of The New Yorker on the occasion of Munro’s winning the Nobel Prize! Read the full post.
Click here to read the story in its entirety on The New Yorker webpage. Lara Vapnyar’s “Katania” was originally published in the October 14, 2013 issue of The New Yorker. Trevor I still haven’t caught up with Vapnyar’s last story in The New Yorker, “Fischer vs. Spassky” (my post, with links to story here), so I … Read more
Click here to read the abstract of the story on The New Yorker webpage (this week’s story is available only for subscribers). Paul Theroux’s “I’m the Meat, You’re the Knife” was originally published in the October 7, 2013 issue of The New Yorker. Betsy “I’m the Meat, You’re the Knife,” by Paul Theroux, is terrific. It’s … Read more
Click here to read the abstract of the story on The New Yorker webpage (this week’s story is available only for subscribers). Joshua Ferris’s “The Breeze” was originally published in the September 30, 2013 issue of The New Yorker. Trevor If Ferris’s last New Yorker piece, “The Fragments,” made me reconsider my misgivings about his work … Read more
Click here to read the story in its entirety on The New Yorker webpage. Tessa Hadley’s “Bad Dreams” was originally published in the September 23, 2013 issue of The New Yorker. Trevor I’m a big fan of Tessa Hadley, so I consider the steady flow of her work into The New Yorker to be a good … Read more
Click here to read the story in its entirety on The New Yorker webpage. Tahar Ben Jelloun’s “By Fire” (tr. from the French by Rita S. Nezami) was originally published in the September 16, 2013 issue of The New Yorker. This is the second piece of fiction in translation in a row, and the third in … Read more