A Heart Is Such a Heavy Thing
Arun Karan is twenty-four and ready to get married. A procession of fathers bearing photographs of their daughters visit Arun's father, Ram Karan, who works in the physical-education department in a...
View ArticleDebut Fiction Prosperity
Short story about a child molester which begins with his childhood in Beri, India, and ends with his molested daughter reaching adulthood. The unnamed the narrator is reflective yet endlessly...
View ArticleSurrounded by Sleep
One August afternoon, when Ajay was ten years old, his elder brother, Aman, dove into a pool and struck his head on the cement bottom. For three minutes, he lay there unconscious. Two boys continued to...
View ArticleChased Away
I joined Chase before it merged with J. P. Morgan and when it was still a lousy investment bank. Some of my colleagues, graduates of business schools I had never heard of, liked to drape the broad...
View ArticleWe Didn’t Like Him
We didn’t like him. Manshu was fourteen, and we were eight or ten, and, instead of playing with boys his own age, he forced himself into our games. Often, he came out into the lane and, if we were...
View ArticleButter
The most important thing was loyalty. My older brother had been brain-damaged in a swimming accident and was unable to move or talk. We took him home from the hospital and started caring for him...
View ArticleA Mistake
As far back as I can remember, my parents have bothered each other.See the rest of the story at newyorker.comRelated:The Man Who Listens to AnimalsPhil Jackson’s Summer Reading Assignments for the New...
View ArticleA Novel Like a Rocket
After writing seven thousand pages over twelve and a half years, I now have a novel, published this week, that is two hundred and twenty-four pages long. When I began working on the book, I knew it was...
View ArticleChekhov’s Beautiful Nonfiction
Anton Chekhov’s “Sakhalin Island,” his long investigation of prison conditions in Siberia, is the best work of journalism written in the nineteenth century. The fact that so few people know of the...
View ArticleA Life of Adventure and Delight
The side door of the police van slid open, rattling, and he was shoved inside. There were seven or eight men already sitting on the floor in the dark, their wrists handcuffed behind them. Nobody said...
View ArticleThe Suit That Couldn’t Be Copied
About two years ago, I became interested in the garments of Davide Taub, the head cutter for Gieves & Hawkes, a house in London at which Alexander McQueen apprenticed, and which has a reputation...
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