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The bear in the driver's seat wasn't made of flesh or any other three-dimensional substance, but of light and color, like characters in animated cartoons. The car it drove had [...]

After the screaming and the poisonous accusations, after the broken vase and rib, after the gonorrhea, waking up to find Anthony gone was not the hardest thing. It was not [...]

At first the doctor assured Nora that her mother's complaints--nausea, mouth ulcers, headaches, dizziness--were the inevitable response to the regimen of chemo. But then Bev developed a low-grade fever, indicating [...]

That morning, while commuting to work in a packed train, I glanced up at one of the hanging posters for a women's weekly magazine. I then let out a sharp [...]

Calcutta. Evening. Sounding of the evening gong at the Kali temple next door to the hospice. Waves of sound rippled out through the roar of bus motors, taxi horns, people [...]

Last week my head was too small. This week, it is too big. My face in the mirror is a picture of dismay. If I try to correct the disproportion [...]

EARLY IN APRIL, VICKI, the children, and I spent a weekend in Princeton. Saturday morning Eliza and I watched the Princeton heavyweight crew row Harvard. We stood at the finish [...]