After reading the excellent collection of stories in our North London issue, I’ve been trying to think of other short stories I’ve read set in North London. It was tougher than ...
Short stories are by their very nature condensed. As Hemingway has so famously said, they reveal only ‘the tip of the iceberg’. ‘Reunion’ by John Cheever is an example of ...
The title of Taiye Selasi’s debut short story is as blunt as it is ironic, proclaiming bold content while quietly mocking Western anthropological theses of old. I first came upon ...
In the first of a series of plugs for my favourite short stories, this week I’m enthusing about Penelope Fitzgerald’s “The Axe”. Managing to be funny and genuinely creepy all ...
Twice this week I’ve thought about “Pig” by Roald Dahl (which you can find in his compilation Kiss Kiss). The first because of the various columns in the newspapers talking ...
