“Getting Closer” by Steven Millhauser Millhauser lets us touch the excitement of anticipation. Speaking from the voice of a young boy Jimmy who has waited all year for the pleasure…
“Extreme Solitude” by Jeffrey Eugenides http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2010/06/07/100607fi_fiction_eugenides?currentPage=2 She puts down the short story when she reads the line. “The necessity for this book is to be found in the following consideration:…
Naima by Hisham Matar in the New Yorker, January 24, 2011 In this short story, Hisham Matear pays the closest attention to the most beautiful details of relationship with others.…
Using fiction and science, the New Yorker considers where we’re at: “And though history has made us self-conscious in order to enhance our survival prospects, we still have deep impulses…
Lights in the Hand 