Naomi Kanakia

Author Archive

  • Jan 28, 2026
    Two months ago, I read a seven-hundred-page collection of short stories by John Cheever. But somehow that wasn’t enough. I went on to read seven-hundred-page retrospective...
  • Jan 14, 2026
    I have a bias against cool New York-based magazines. I generally associate them with chic radical politics and meaningless academic jargon. But The Whitney Review of New...
  • Jan 7, 2026
    A Little Life is one of literature’s greatest traps. For the first hundred pages, this novel cozily describes a group of four college friends and their petty tribulations...