The Night In Question
Author: Tobias Wolff
One of the sinuous and subtly crafted stories in Tobias Wolff’s new collection–his first in eleven years–begins with a man biting a dog. The fact that Wolff is reversing familiar expectations is only half the point. The other half is that Wolff makes the reversal seem inevitable: the dog has attacked his protagonist’s young daughter. And everywhere in The Night in Questi….Read More
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