The other sad truth about golf spectatorship is that for today's pros it all comes down to the putting, and that the difference between a putt that drops and one that rims the cup, though teleologically enormous, is intellectually negligeable.

For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what we must do - they are glowing signifiers of our own necessities.

How can the planet keep turning and turning and not get so bored it explodes?

Fiction is in danger of becoming a kind of poetry. Only other poets read it. Only other fiction writers care about it.

The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.

Photography is the first art wherein the tool does most of the work.

Russia is the only country of the world you can be homesick for while you're still in it.