Slowly
If Tom, the narrator, wasn't gay, he would have married Jane, his friend from college. Instead, he introduced her to his brother Ethan, and Ethan …
Peter Cameron's "Slowly": the adverb as method, pace as meaning, unhurried fiction.
January 18, 1988
The New Yorker is older than we are. For issues that predate this project, an algorithm trained on our taste did the picking.