“ ‘Please let me keep it,’ she begs. ‘Please, Christina. I know you can intercede with God. Please do this for me.’ ”
July 25, 2017
“What if he’s here, lying in one of those cribs, and she sees him every single day without realizing he’s her son?”
July 18, 2017
Arthur Less recalls intercontinental-travel advice from an old flame: “They serve you dinner, you take your sleeping pill, they serve you breakfast, you’re there.”
June 13, 2017
“One rainy night, in March, 2009, we crossed a muddy field to intercept a group of Taliban who’d come out of the mountains of Pakistan.”
June 6, 2017
“The guest had been there for three nights and was supposed to check out by noon. She knocked again. ‘Housekeeping,’ she said.”
June 3, 2017
“A lot of the people in our program were nakedly emotional in a way that, in childhood, I had so successfully trained myself not to be that I almost really wasn’t.”
May 30, 2017
“The list of potential reasons that my husband and I no longer have sex wakes me up at night. If I’m not already awake thinking about the coyotes.”
May 16, 2017
“Maybe he changed his mind and went back inside, I try to tell myself. But I don’t believe it.”
May 9, 2017
“Those who allow themselves to be hurt in the name of love must understand better than anyone the desire to hurt.”
May 2, 2017
The way he roots through the garbage cans in the winter snow and in the summer heat with an admirable persistence serves as a touchstone.
April 25, 2017