New Yorker Fiction Review #315: "Marseille" by Aysegul Savas
Review of the short story from the April 7, 2025 issue of The New Yorker... Turkish novelist Aysegul Savas is in the midst of a highly enviable run of literary success. Since 2019, Savas -- who, it should be noted, received her MFA in the U.S. and writes in English -- has published three novels, a collection of non-fiction essays, and has a short story collection due out in July. Not to mention short stories and essays published in The New Yorker , the Paris Review , The Yale Review , The Dublin Review , The Los Angeles Review of Books , Granta , and others. And her third novel, The Anthropologists (2024), was cited by President Barack Obama as one of his favorite books of the year...which is pretty damn cool if you ask me. The point is, other than winning the Pulitzer Prize or the Pen Hemingway Award, or having one of her books turned into a movie (and hey, there's still plenty of time), as a young writer of literary fiction you could not ask for a better career. According ...
