Hooks
The narrator is a Soviet Jewish emigre living in London, where he meets a Soviet tourist. The tourist keeps his eyes averted from him. The narrator …
Zinovy Zinik's "Hooks": the émigré writer's craft, catching experience on the page's barbs.
November 6, 1989
The New Yorker is older than we are. For issues that predate this project, an algorithm trained on our taste did the picking.