A Century of Fiction in The New Yorker: 1925-2025

Winfield rather admired the way Sheila carried on her conversation with her two friends and at the same time routed and rerouted Robert so that they were out of the city in no time. A retreat, presumably, from the trauma of war into the safety of domesticity, the clarity of family relationships—though that clarity is often blurred by straying husbands or the consequences of divorce. Anthony, Sugar City: Mormon hamlets, small farms, and the furious reordering of watersheds into industrial canals. Once, her husband broke a toe when he tripped on the carpet that they had finally installed in their house, after ten years of planning.