Fives and Faves.

I’m at home working on my cover letter when I miss a call from the pediatric cardiologist. Or it might be from a nurse in pediatric cardiology. It’s not clear. Whoever she is, she leaves a callback nu...

Bob walked into a bar and said to the bartender, “I’ll have a martini. Hold the vermouth. Hold the olive. Hold the gin. Hold the glass.” Bob walked into a bar with his junior and said to the barten...

Garielle Lutz is one of America’s great writers. Why has her literary genius gone unnoticed?

Life doesn’t make sense to us, disastrous and uncomfortable events happen suddenly, and without warning. It only makes sense, then, that stories should do the same.

The television broadcast displays the fifth set score in the upper left-hand corner, the game count rising steadily for each player at exactly the same rate, the rate of service, because neither can b...

THE CAVE OF THE EXCELLENT HORSES I dreamed the cave was full of Upper Paleolithic paintings. There was nothing important about the dream and I don’t remember what the paintings looked like—only that ...