Tobias Wolff

The story of a book critic and his final thoughts from short-story master Tobias Wolff... Anders is an angry, cynical man. A book critic known for his scathing reviews, he finds any excuse to dismiss, belittle, or insult. This afternoon is no more agitating than the next. Angers finds himself in...

A classic tale of brotherly love and rivalry from short story master Tobias Wolff....

Tobias Wolff's masterful short story about one woman's quiet revenge on the pomposity and arrogance of academia. Meticulous, funny, eccentric - Mary has always been mindful of the complex role she plays as a professor of history. Her lectures are carefully written out beforehand; her...

The author of the genre-defining memoir This Boy’s Life, the PEN/Faulkner Award–winning novella The Barracks Thief, and short stories acclaimed as modern classics, Tobias Wolff now gives us his first novel. Determined to fit in at his New England prep school, the narrator has learned to...

In this short story from Our Story Begins, three friends confront their relationships to one another as they work on plans to build their very own airplane....

Miller is unlucky. That's why he's in a foxhole with the rest of Bravo Company. That's why his dad is gone and his mother remarried....

Gilbert saw Mary Ann first, but the second time he sees her she is dancing with his best friend, Rafe....

Ann's friends envy her. None of their husbands even lift a finger to help with the household chores....