Male friendships are essentially quixotic: they last only so long as each man is willing to polish the shaving-bowl helmet, climb on his donkey, and ride off after the other in pursuit of illusive glo...
Bells. I accept your kind invitation, Zelikman said. My services as a physician ought just to offset my fare. The elephant gave a low moan, startling them, and a moment later they heard a faint trill,...
Acromegaly. Frau Dr. Anna Kavalier was a neurologist
You would never do anything like that, would you? my wife asked him. You would never hurt animals.Our son shook his head, looking offended by the question. He might have been lying, but my knowledge o...
When some drunken fool asked if she was a lesbian, she would say, 'In everything but sexual preference.
Walter broke off a piece of a smile and tucked it into his left cheek as if reserving it for future use.
There had been a time in high school, see, when I wrestled with the possibility that I might be gay, a torturous six-month culmination of years of unpopularity and girllessness. At night I lay in bed...
The shaping of a golem, to [Joe] was a gesture of hope, offered against hope, in a time of desperation. It was the expression of a yearning that a few magic words and an artful hand might produce some...
The odd agglomeration of Warshaws, the product of a long and determined program of overseas adoptions, with its combination of Jews and Koreans, intellectuals, space cadets, and sharpies, no two of th...
The labels had been lettered lovingly; his father had always expressed that emotion best through troubling with details.
The girl was a labyrinth to him; only by chance and error did he ever stumble blindly into her heart.
The annual celebrations of God’s mercy, justice, and power, the feasts or fasts undertaken in praise of His Name, the miracles He was supposed to have thrown our way over the centuries—in my grandfath...
THE CHOICE, BY BOTH PALESTINIANS AND ISRAELI JEWS, TO TRUST ONE another is perilous. Day after day, the mechanisms of life under occupation succeed in their aim: to disavow the possibility of commonal...
She was a vessel built to hold the pain of her history, but it had cracked her, and radiant darkness leaked out through the crack. When
She was a junkie for the printed word. And lucky for me, I manufactured her drug of choice.
She is getting old, and he is getting old, right on schedule, and yet as time ruins them, they are not, strangely enough, married to each other.
She believed that it was important to put trust in children, to hand over the reins to them from time to time, to let them decide things for themselves.
She balanced on a point between rage and its relief. Amid the layers of conscious thought and the involuntary actions of her body, Gwen found herself in possession, coolly palmed in her thoughts like...
Over the years, a number of judges, among them the great Learned Hand, had attempted, tongues not always quite firmly in cheek, to sort out these fine and crucial distinctions. A legal definition of t...
One of the sturdiest precepts of the study of human delusion is that every golden age is either past or in the offing.
