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Karen Russell: “Orange World”

May 28, 2018

It’s time for the annual Fiction Issue of The New Yorker. Here we have Karen Russell’s “Orange World.”

It’s time for the annual Fiction Issue of The New Yorker. Here we have Lu Yang’s “Silver Tiger,” translated from the Chinese by Eric Abrahamsen, with assistance from the Nanjing Youth Literary Talent Project.

Golden Man Booker Prize Shortlist

May 26, 2018

To celebrate 50 years of the Man booker Prize, the Golden Man Booker Prize Shortlist has been announced. This list is composed of judges’ choice for the best Booker winner of each of the five decades.

Robert Aickman: Compulsory Games

May 24, 2018

Robert Aickman is a master of the strange short story. NYRB Classics has just released a collection of 15 of his stories, entitled Compulsory Games.

In Memoriam: Philip Roth

May 23, 2018

The American writer Philip Roth has died at 85. The early days of The Mookse and the Gripes were filled with reviews of his work, and I still look back on reading many of these with fondness. Here is a brief remembrance.

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