Back the Way You Went
Garland Because she has a broken heart and then her mother dies, D and F take her with them on…
Fiction
admin Flaubert Again
Fiction by Anne Carson: “If she were ever really writing, the writing would pull her down into itself and erase…
Poor Houdini
Fiction by Anne Carson: Afterward, talking of that night, she can’t remember how she found her way, with the darkness…
The Twice-Widowed Khala Helai
Fiction by Jamil Jan Kochai, the author of “99 Nights in Logar”: Fifty years and I dream of him still,…
Firstborn Immigrant Daughter
Fiction by Taiye Selasi, the author of “Ghana Must Go”: Your mother doesn’t want her daughter to be happy. Your…
A Talent for Seeming
Fiction, excerpted from a novel in progress, by Jonathan Franzen, the author of “Crossroads” and “The Corrections”: Lust wasn’t her…