Volume 49, Number 19 · December 5, 2002
Unlocking the Cupboard
By Geoffrey O'Brien
The Human Country: New and Collected Stories
by Harry Mathews
Dalkey Archive, 186 pp., $14.50 (paper)
If you consider that it sums up more than three decades of work in short fiction, Harry Mathews's The Human Country: New and Collected Stories seems a small book. Bulk is deceptive in this case, however. Mathews's fiction has a way of compressing immensities into the tiniest of compartments.
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