Fiction
“Jack and Della”
“She couldn’t be seen walking down the street with him without damage to her reputation, a risk a teacher can’t take.”
July 13, 2020
“A Transparent Woman”
“She asked if she was under arrest. No, what made her think that? They were just going to have a little chat. The threat hidden in that twee bloodless phrase.”
June 29, 2020
The Rescue Will Begin in Its Own Time
Fiction by Franz Kafka: “Did he suppose I could fix in a couple of hours what two people had done wrong over the course of their entire lives?”
June 22, 2020
“Grief”
Fiction by Scholastique Mukasonga: “Yes, there were massacres, but there were always massacres in Africa.”
June 15, 2020
“White Noise”
Fiction by Emma Cline: This time tomorrow, Harvey would know everything. He believed, truly, that he would be exonerated. How could he not be?
June 1, 2020
“Confessions of a Shinagawa Monkey”
Fiction by Haruki Murakami: “Sharing a beer and chatting with a monkey was a pretty unusual experience in and of itself.”
June 1, 2020
“Two Nurses, Smoking”
“He said, I love hearing your stories. I love your stories, too, she said, touching his shoulder.”
May 25, 2020
“Demolition”
“To spend twenty years living opposite a monster without recognizing his evil might, Eva supposed, require a special kind of delusion.”
May 18, 2020
“The Afterlife”
“R. faintly recalled someone, long ago, trying to explain this place to him, the system that prevailed. Of course, he’d paid no attention.”
May 11, 2020
