Fiction
Fiction | You Will Be Missed
What kind of people don’t see their only sibling for years, then show up at her husband’s funeral? What kind of Irish joke are you?
The Liar's Wife
Mary Gordon's latest collection of short fiction succeeds in showing that certain lies, by a kind of alchemy, can teach us the truth.
Paul Rosenfeld: Prompter of Fiction
On a night in November 1913, between 42nd and 43rd streets in New York, Paul Rosenfeld, then a young man recently out of Yale and waiting for a job to open up on...
Fiction | Children of Night
What sort of a fugitive am I, living in a two-car garage, that old temple of middle-class respectability? Simon almost sneered: You're not exactly Anne Frank.
Fiction | Tunneling
It began, Eleanor would remember later, when she caught him in the basement, masturbating—or so she thought, anyway, for a strange and topsy-turvy moment....
Fiction | The Relic Thief
Although Italians were officially despised by the grownups in Paul’s Irish family, everyone seemed to have at least one Italian best friend. His grandmother...
Fiction | Misery Island
Between the man’s finding full-time work again and the boy’s playing park-league baseball and caddying at the Essex County Golf Club, they hardly saw...
Outside Gravity
The story begins on a bright afternoon many years ago, one I remember as though I’d seen it. (This is natural enough in a family like ours, with its canon of...
Labyrinth
The priest, Fr. Monaghan, sat in his office listening to the clock. The office was a small and windowless room behind the auditorium, cluttered with books and...
Saving Women
Miss Havisham—Satis House, England, 1860.
Satis House. Enough House.The name is ironic, given the place’s sad falling off. The garden reeks of ruined...
Misery Will Never End
He was buried in January, in an icy fog, at eight in the morning—about the time when they shoot those condemned to death.There were quite a few people there—from...
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