A stream of consciousness story about a man who believes someone is knocking on his door and it turns out to be his old friend. Then things unravel from there.
Author
Jon Fosse
Publication
The New Yorker, June 9, 2025
Date Read
July 2, 2025
Tortoiseshell
The story of a liar who has a fascination with a particular Hemingway story as it was translated to Italian.
Author
Domenico Starnone
Publication
The New Yorker April 28, 2025
Date Read
April 24, 2025
Jenny Annie Fanny Addie
A teen girl gets groped at summer camp and her mother picks her up for a day together. The results are a lot of questioning of the incident and how her relationship reflects the experience. Was she embarrassed or was her mother embarrassed for her? By the end, she’s changed from the experience, but not just because of the physical pain of the experience, but also because of how her mother reacted to it. How she was perceived in the moment.
Author
Adam Levine
Publication
The New Yorker, April 21, 2025
The Frenzy
A middle aged man had an affair with a twenty year old. The story takes place on a weekday excursion for privacy and intimacy that turns sour.
Author
Joyce Carol Oates
Publication
The New Yorker, March 24, 2025
Date Read
March 21, 2025
Paris Friend
A love story taking place online where the male narrator finds a woman he enjoys her presence online, but never meets her, so he travels to Paris to find her. But he encounters only the place where she used to write and the knowledge that she published his short story in the local French magazine. At the end, it seems the woman he went to meet was his mother, but it was vague. Translated from Chinese.
Author
Shang Xuetao
Publication
The New Yorker, December 2, 2024
Date Read
January 16, 2025