There’s scant dialogue but plenty of eloquent storytelling in the five animated short films up for a 2013 Oscar. Save for a five-minute Simpsons segment (“Maggie Simpson in ‘The Longest Daycare'”), ...
In new collections by Yiyun Li, Claire Keegan, Alexandra Chang and Lore Segal, interpersonal bonds are created and destroyed. By Kathleen Alcott The short-story writer “can’t create compassion with ...