The little boy had wandered away from his mother, tacking across the grass toward the play structure. His mother watched him go, proud, tickled, unaware that every time they toddled away from you, the...
The instructor, Ms. Pease, also taught in the church's religious school, and she had a Sunday school manner at once saccharine and condemnatory.
The application of creative intelligence to a problem, the finding of a solution at once dogged, elegant, and wild, this had always seemed to him to be the essential business of human beings—the disco...
She nods, not meeting his gaze, and steps out into the evening. It is raining, of course. The umbrella now does what its owner has never been able to manage, and Miss Dark goes home.
Of always fighting against feeling useless. Of how sad it makes me feel that sisters won’t go to a midwife. Also, frankly, I’m sick of overprivileged, neurotic, crazy-ass . . . She stopped talking. Sh...
My grandfather was troubled and fascinated by this alteration from the girl of ten days before. Had the flirtatious gamine in the Ingrid Bergman sunglasses been a pose adopted for the evening, while t...
Meeting a namesake is one of the most delicate and most brief surprises.
It's a sinking ship, he said. You ought to be grateful that they just threw you overboard.
I hate it that they even count errors,' Ethan said. . . . 'What kind of game is that? No other sport do they do that, Dad. There's no other sport where they put the errors on the freaking scoreboard f...
I guess I don’t fit the new corporate profile. Which is? Competence.
His mother is calling him on the ultrasonic frequency reserved by the government for Jewish mothers in the event of lunch.
He was through with this conversation. As a rule, they tended to avoid questions like How sane are we? and Do our lives have meaning? The need for avoidance was acute and apparent to both of them.
Forget about what you are escaping from. Reserve your anxiety for what you are escaping to.
Every universe, our own included, begins in conversation. Every golem in the history of the world, from Rabbi Hanina's delectable goat to the river-clay Frankenstein of Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel, w...
All at once he feels weary of ganefs and prophets, guns and sacrifices and the infinite gangster weight of God. He's tired of hearing about the promised land and the inevitable bloodshed required for...
— Это была Бесс Гудини, — сказал Корнблюм. — Она идеально знала лицо своего мужа. И могла прочесть на нем печать поражения. Могла подойти к представителю газеты. Могла со слезами на глазах и краской н...
Каждая вселенная, и наша личная в том числе, берет свое начало в разговоре.
‘Forget about what you are escaping from,’ he said, quoting an old maxim of Kornblum’s. ‘Reserve your anxiety for what you are escaping to.’
That he would rather not love at all than be punished for loving.
Series you followed. Not even if you died. Alive or dead or a thousand miles distant, you were always going to be on the hook for work that was neither a procedure nor a series of steps but, rather, s...