The New Yorker: "Midnight in Dostoevsky" by Don DeLillo

This story is going directly onto my top-ten list for the year. I enjoyed this more than any DeLillo I've read, and I'm going to assume that it's not excerpted from a novel. (Readers will remember "The Falling Man," a DeLillo "story" in The New Yorker that was, in fact, a single story line extracted from his novel of the same name; DeLillo himself didn't even do the extracting.) Although I have some qualms about the ending, the rest of the story is completely engaging.

Two college students, To...