Several thoughts came to me as I read this short story and of course most of them centered around fatherhood (the father plays a ma...

I paused as I read this short story and breathed a sigh of relief.   With this story – I felt that I am finally moving out of th...

Let me first apologize to all the Mavis Gallant fans out there.   I’m sorry.  I’m sorry that I just can’t get into Mavis. No...

More interested in the author than the story.  Happy to find that Harriet published her first novel at the age of 73 in 1983 and ...

Sometimes it  isn't  the complete story but just a paragraph, maybe a sentence or two, that sticks in your head. I found that...

White Angel, presented in this collection, is another example of how this wonderful little exercise of mine presents me with autho...