Tag: Teju Cole

January 2021

The January stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.

1. ‘The Love Object’ by Edna O’Brien
2. ‘Dandelion’ by Lore Segal
3. ‘The Headstrong Historian’ by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
4. ‘The Black Monk’ by Anton Chekhov
5. ‘Her Table Spread’ by Elizabeth Bowen
6. ‘Cloud, Castle, Lake’ by Vladimir Nabokov
7. ‘Modern Girls’ by Teju Cole
8. ‘The Bound Man’ by Ilse Aichinger
9. ‘The Married Couple’ by Franz Kafka
10. ‘Everything’ by Ingeborg Bachmann
11. ‘The Sacrificial Egg’ by Chinua Achebe
12. ‘Phantoms’ by Ivan Turgenev
13. ‘In The Shadow Of War’ by Ben Okri
14. ‘The Hawk’ by Liam O’Flaherty
15. ‘Work, Death, And Sickness’ by Leo Tolstoy
16. ‘The Hotel’ by Anne Enright
17. ‘Aspic’ by Tatyana Tolstaya

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