She could sit on a bench in Europe completely unmolested, without a single human being saying a word to her, until the sun ...

Dalloway,” or even “To the Lighthouse.” In fact, it comes from “Unknown Man No. 89,” a 1977 novel by Elmore Leonard. The man ...

Mafalda,” the comic strip in which she appeared, was published in Argentina from 1964 to 1973, and remained a cultural ...

He was nothing and nobody, and nobody cared, and he thought that everyone was watching him, that even I was watching him.

A seventy-million-dollar renovation beautifully presents the museum’s non-Western art—even if doubts remain about whether all ...

Voices Lost in Snow” ran in The New Yorker in 1976, though I discovered it almost two decades later, in a discarded library ...

My Sharon is dealing with “the Change,” which seems also to be on Paley’s mind in “My Father.” (“We should probably begin at ...

Brodkey wrote “The State of Grace” in his early twenties, a sweeping act of pure genius that took him only forty-five minutes ...

Told in fragments, the book spans Alyan’s itinerant upbringing, in Kuwait, Beirut, and elsewhere, and her life as an adult in ...

For a long stretch of his life, Daddy had two women to nurture him—Mrs. Williams and my mother—but Our Ma had only one ...

The monks of Venice’s San Giorgio Maggiore have hosted Cosimo de Medici in exile and a papal conclave, but they won’t be ...

I need some time alone, like the rest of my life. It’s weird to me now that we urge kids to blow birthday candles out when they should burn, given that our bones are I.O.U.s. Cake sounds good, and ...