Okay, Hillary has announced. The election season has officially begun, and it’s going to be a long hard slog, so here’s a reminder about the newsworthiness of the variety of news organizations that are likely to be hitting your Facebook feed for the next several hundred months, or however long Read more…
The New Yorker doesn’t often publish speculative fiction, so when it does it’s an event. David Gilbert’s short story, “From a Farther Room” falls into that category, but unfortunately the story suffers from a failure of nerve and backs off from a great premise to provide instead a pretty Read more…
The May 31 New Yorker has a short story by Jonathan Franzen called “Agreeable” that made me break my usual “no reading New Yorker fiction” rule. I’m not sure why. The beginning reads like a Good Housekeeping or Redbook article. On second thought, maybe that’s why I kept reading. There Read more…