Exactly thirty seconds before two o’clock, the assistant professor approaches her classroom armed with two heavy textbooks on the anatomy of the human brain and a stack of handwritten notes for her first lecture. Does anyone know the speed of thought? she will ask the...
“Tell them to take a taxi here,” Anna says to her husband. It’s already, or rather once again, the hottest August on record, and sweat drops are clinging to the skin between her breasts as she moves around the living room of the rented beach house, methodically...
