Friendship Archives

Friendship

The Specter at the Feast

by Xi Xi,

From Mourning a Breast, which was published in July by New York Review Books. Translated from the Chinese by Jennifer Feeley. Every fall, my friends and I get together to…

Friends with Benefits

by Mary Ruefle,

From the essay “Dear Friends,” which was published in the Winter 2021 issue of The Sewanee Review. i have a friend who has never read a single word I have…

The Injustice Collector

by Herbert Gold,

Because I must, I accept that there are people who don’t care too much about those they bump into on the journey. They just want to enjoy a beer or…

These Precious Days

by Ann Patchett,

Tell me how the story ends

From a 2017 conversation between Yoram Ne’eman, then chief superintendent of the Israeli police, and Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel. The police were investigating whether Netanyahu had been…