Domenico Starnone reintroduces Jhumpa Lahiri’s stories in Interpreter of Maladies, on Literary Hub.

I knew that I was buying a book of stories, and stories, as we know, aren’t necessarily born in order to coexist. Each might lead a solitary, independent life. Constraining them within a book can sometimes even feel forced unless something signals us to the fact that their cohabitation makes perfect sense.