They’d performed more modern plays sometimes in the first few years, but what was startling, what no one would have anticipated, was that audiences seemed to prefer Shakespeare to their other theatric...
Therefore the winds, piping to us in vain, as in revenge, have sucked up from the sea contagious fogs.… Pestilential, a note in the text explains, next to the word contagious, in Kirsten’s favorite of...
There was a reminder that the library was always seeking books, and that they paid in wine.
The girl looked like a china doll, she thought. She looked like someone who’d been well-cared-for and coddled all her life. She was probably someone who would grow up to be like Miranda’s assistant La...
Sixty dollars later Jeevan was alone outside his brother’s apartment door, the carts lined up down the corridor. Perhaps, he thought, he should have called ahead from the grocery store. It was one a.m...
Kirsten and August walked mostly in silence. A deer crossed the road ahead and paused to look at them before it vanished into the trees. The beauty of this world where almost everyone was gone. If hel...
I’m talking about these people who’ve ended up in one life instead of another and they are just so disappointed. Do you know what I mean?
It’s not looking promising for a quick end to the emergency, a newscaster said, understating the situation to a degree previously unmatched in the history of understatement,
If your soul left this earth I would follow and find you.
If the dreams of the last speaker of Chamicuro won't survive the passage into another language, then what else has been lost? What else that was expressible in that language cannot be said in another?
I believe when you’re speaking English, you’re allowed to refer to it as Prague.
How without any one of these people the world is a subtly but unmistakably altered place,
He remembered being here with Clark at three or four or sometimes five in the morning, during what seemed at the time like adulthood and seemed in retrospect like a dream.
Garrett had had a wife and four-year-old twins in Halifax, but the last call he’d ever made was to his boss. The last words he’d spoken into a telephone were a bouquet of corporate clichés, seared hor...
En periode da hun lever et liv som føles som frihet, iblant ligger med naboen i etasjen under men nekter å ha et forhold, hvisker Jeg angrer ingenting til speilet i hundre hotellrom fra London til Sin...
Cold rain, the sidewalk shining, the shhh of car tires on the wet street. Thinking about the terrible gulf of years between eighteen and fifty.
But why me? We haven’t spoken since the last divorce hearing. You know where I’m from, he said, and she understood what he meant by this. Once we lived on an island in the ocean. Once we took the ferr...
And now in a twilight once more lit by candles, the age of electricity having come and gone,
A tired king at the end of his reign, perhaps not as sharp as he had been, contemplating a disastrous division of his kingdom.
You. Come here soon. Michaela. If the whole business of life on earth had ever made sense to him, it ceased to at that moment. She unmoored him, her departure made him want to disappear, et cetera—but...