THE LONG READ

Two long pieces have our attention this week.  We've only begun both, but they seem promising so we bring them to your attention here.  First, there's Daniel Torday on "Fatalism in the stories of Edward P. Jones" ...

It’s a startling move in a straightforward realist narrative, not entirely unlike the moment in Hemingway’s “The Short Happy Life of Frances Macomber,” when after about a dozen pages of mundane description of a rich man hunting, we’re suddenly thrust into the head of the lion that w