Decades later, it’s Madame’s apartment they’ll remember—the light filtering in from the rue de Vaugirard, the fringed lampshades, the piano…

In the last several years, Joyce Carol Oates has made a great impression. She has received many awards, including a…

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The Irish have an insidious gift for making their national failings attractive.

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It is almost as difficult to generalize about the short story as about the novel, except to say that its…