Friendship Archives

Friendship

Beautiful Partygoer

Collages by Joanna Neborsky We’d been in Maine six months, but for the first three our kids had continued to Zoom with their Brooklyn school and then summer had come.…

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…