Rachel Kushner: “Fifty-Seven”
This week’s New Yorker fiction is Rachel Kushner's “Fifty-Seven.”
Isaac Bashevis Singer: “Inventions”
This week's New Yorker fiction is "Inventions," by Isaac Bashevis Singer and translated from the Yiddish by Aliza Shevrin. The story was written in 1965 and translated to English in the late 1960s, but it's only making its way to us now.