On newsstands today is the June 9 & 16, 2008, Summer Fiction Issue of The New Yorker which features the story "Natasha", by Vladimir Nabokov, published for the first time in English. Written around 1924, when Nabokov was in his mid-twenties (five years after his family fled Russia, and two years after his father was assassinated in Berlin), it was discovered in the writer's archives at the Library of Congress a couple of years ago, and was translated by his son, Dmitri. "Natasha" tells the story of a young woman who cares for her ailing father, in their ramshackle one-room apartment in Berlin while he mourns their exile from their Russian motherland.
The entire story can be read here.
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