Donkey Saint

In the last paragraph of her story "Indian Uprising," Ann Beattie's character Maude, a would-be poet and maybe short-story wri...

Joseph O'Neill in a New Yorker interview about his story "The Sinking of the Houston": "The interpretation of motive r...

"He believed that everything and everybody in the world was worthy of notice but this person beside him was something beyond that. To h...

All page numbers reference Penguin Classics edition (isbn 0-14-043288-4) edited and with an introduction by David Lodge and notes by Patrici...

Nostromo is a deeply flawed hero who accuses himself of betraying two people: Senorita Viola and Martin Decoud. As to the latter, he leave...