Unbearable
The Twenty-seventh Man: A Short Story from 'For the Relief of Unbearable Urges'
In this short story from Nathan Englander's collection, a clerical error lands earnest, unpublished Pinchas Pelovits in prison with 26 other writers....
The Last One Way: A Short Story from 'For the Relief of Unbearable Urges'
In this short story from Nathan Englander's collection, an Orthodox Jewish wife is abandoned and made miserable because her husband will not consent to a religious divorce....
The Wig: A Short Story from 'For the Relief of Unbearable Urges'
In this short story from Nathan Englander's collection, an aging wigmaker becomes, for a single moment, beautiful....
Reb Kringle: A Short Story from 'For the Relief of Unbearable Urges'
A Jewish man works as a department-store Santa in this comic tale....
The Tumblers: A Short Story from 'For the Relief of Unbearable Urges'
In this short story from Nathan Englander's collection, a group of World War II-ear Hasids are mistaken for acrobats....
First Love
At the end of a dinner party, the remaining guests drink wine and tell stories of their first love. For one of them reawakening unbearable memories of his obsession with the beautiful Zinaida....







