The Constancy of Things
All it took was that first bite for her to realize that she had indeed been hungry, not just for food, but for pleasure, for life.
The Windmills of Our Minds
Reading Cervantes during the pandemic
Camouflage
Recalling a past of sound and silence, and secrets that could never be told
Diamonds
The stones, shimmering and precious, connect a writer to her generous, enigmatic mother
The Other Woman
A mother’s devastating secret, and its many reverberations, present and past
J. M. Coetzee’s The Master of Petersburg
The sinister truths of our souls
Silences
A South African family of privilege kept its secrets
