SOURCE: “A Community of Hope,” in Times Literary Supplement, January 23, 1998, p. 22.

In the following review, Cheyette offers a positive evaluation of The Collected Stories.

The forty-five stories in this remarkable collection [The Collected Stories] have been published over the past four decades. Grace Paley’s three volumes of stories—The Little Disturbances of Man (1959), Enormous Changes at the Last Minute (1974) and Later the Same Day (1985)—have been, at last, brought together for a British readership (the book was first published in the United States in 1994). Paley has always taken her time, remarking characteristically that there is more to life than writing fiction. There is certainly more to her life. Born in the Bronx in 1922, to Russian Jewish immigrants, she grew up in the poorer quarter of Lower, East Side Manhattan. The child of three languages, Russian, Yiddish and English, she wrote poetry, before turning to the story form...