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2006 Stories by Phyllis Fong

• 'Wrestling With Angels'

  published September 26, 2006

  Tony Kushner, behind round-rimmed glasses, is so assuredly charismatic throughout Freida Lee Mock's documentary portrait that an admission that he... More >>

• Hope Floats

  published August 29, 2006

  Water may be grief's most figurative and convincing form, destructive in onslaught and lingering in aftereffect. Recent events have made mud of... More >>

• Sisters of the Head

  published August 8, 2006

  Bridget Jones's Diary first gave the term singleton wide circulation, as a sad but hopeful concept seeking completion in... More >>

• A Hard Day's Night

  published July 11, 2006

  Martin Amis wrote, of Humbert Humbert's essential unreliability, "let us remember that Nabokov was capable of writing entire fictions . . . in... More >>

• Can We Replace Congress With Politically Minded Authors?

  published May 2, 2006

  If LitPAC ran for Congress, we'd know what we'd be getting. The cabal of politically minded authors is confident ("Progressive values are American... More >>

• Writing to Stave Off Compromise and Mental Incontinence

  published January 24, 2006

  Goethe is "the great Tang poet," according to the stroke-felled, invalid professor of Ha Jin's The Crazed, gone mad from the twin burdens... More >>

• 'Blossoms of Fire'

  published January 24, 2006

  "Utopia" is a heady word; a "matriarchal utopia" is cause for investigation. Blossoms of Fire tackles the myth of the Zapotec women of... More >>