English Book Club

Funny Little Snake in The New Yorker SUMMARY Gil (or Gilbert) a 50-year-old history professor, divorced and remarried, feels his duty to i...

Dido's Lament, on The New Yorker (text, and audio, read by the author) SUMMARY , by Josep Guiteras Lynette was 30 years old, she was ...

San Miniato al Monte SUMMARY AND IDEAS This is another story about a singular girl: the intellectual, clever, plain, rejected by her schoolm...

  SUMMARY This is a capital story of the collection; with it, Tessa Hadley won the 2005 O. Henry award. Gina, a 47-year-old scholar and...

Art Pepper SUMMARY, by Nora Carranza At the very beginning of Matrilineal, we know that Helen had left her husband forty years ago. At ...

SUMMARY , by Montse Puigvert   Christine, Thomas’s mother, works as a literature teacher at the university and lives on her own in a fla...