Relationship Counseling for One
Getting close to someone can be devastatingly scary. Just how intimate do you want to be with even your best friend, with your partner, your children, or your parents? Why is learning to trust so hard? In Octavia Butler’s Patternist series, collected under the...
Relationship Counseling for One
I recently read a short (and I do mean short) story in The New Yorker called The Trench by Erri de Luca and translated by Ann Goldstein. Without much plot, or even deep character background, we meet an Italian man in France (called “Italy” by the others...