What we liked best: short stories and essays
Of the short story and essay collections reviewed in the Monitor in 2007, these received top marks.
from the December 4, 2007 edition
Shakespeare's Kitchen,by Lore Segal (The New Press, 225pp., $22.95)
Lore Segal's genius for observation dazzles in this collection of 13 interlinked stories about a woman who leaves New York to take a job at a Connecticut think tank.(4/10/07)
Cheating at Canasta,by William Trevor (Viking, 232 pp., $24.95)Subtlety and consolatory grace are once again the hallmarks in this, Trevor's 12th short story collection in 40 years. (10/23/07)
At Large,by Anne Fadiman (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 220 pp., $22)Head and heart combine delightfully in this collection of essays, almost all written by Fadiman for The American Scholar while she was editor there from 1997 to 2004. (7/3/07)
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