Tyrants: Stories

Brilliantly evocative stories about tyrannies—political and intimate, historical and domestic—and about the unpredictable delinquencies of lust. The grouped stories in Tyrants trace the many forms of emotional inheritance—cultural, romantic, and historical. Some deftly portray both time and place, while others mine interpersonal relations with such intimacy and truth that they could be set anytime, anywhere. In the first sequence of stories, a son inherits and reconsiders his father’s convo...