Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind's essential illness. Well, this seems particularly resonant at this current...

I was perfectly aware that I had only added another question to all the others, but it was a new one, and, in the absurd world in which I...

When I went to the kitchen to get some ice, I would look up at the clock hanging above the door: 'only two more hours,' 'only one more...

She's far happier thinking her sister is normal, even if she has a lot of problems, than she is having an abnormal sister for whom...

I began dressing Helen Clarke in my mind, putting her in a bathing suit on a snow bank, setting her high in the hard branches of a tree...

Our partners do not belong to us; they are only on loan, with an option to renew—or not. Knowing that we can lose them does not have to...

The world, the girl knew, was worse than savage, the world was unmoved. I struggled with the writing style of this book when I first...

The crisis facing men is not the crisis of masculinity, it is the crisis of patriarchal masculinity. A compelling collection of essays...

'Why wouldn't they want to know me?' Who wouldn't want to know me? This was a new idea for me. Our father had always thought we were...

You cannot blame me for being what I am. Without me, nothing would end. Nothing could end. And therefore nothing could grow. I am life....