T.C. Boyle’s new novel is No Way Home (Liveright, 2026). In 2027, Liveright will publish his collection The End Is Only a Beginning, which will include “What the Photos Didn’t Reveal,” along with eleven more new stories. Boyle is very happy to be drawing breath and walking the earth.
Fiction
Current Issue
What the Photos Didn’t Reveal
After the fact, after the sheriff’s department wrapped up its investigation and people had begun to move on, the photos on the wife’s phone came into my possession. How this […]
Fiction
Nov/Dec 2020
These Are the Circumstances
“We’re animals,” she said, “never forget that,” and he said, “Speak for yourself,” and she said, “I’m serious, because we’re just not made to sit around all day in an […]
The Hybrid Lyric
Sept/Oct 2017
Surtsey
All he could think about was bailing, one bucket after the other, as if the house he’d lived in all his life was a boat out on the open sea. […]
Fiction
Nov/Dec 2015
The Five-Pound Burrito
The Five-Pound Burrito He lived in a world of grease, and no matter how often he bathed, which was once a day, rigorously—and no shower but a drawn bath—he smelled […]
Fiction
Fall 2013
Slate Mountain
The sun was a little gift from the gods, pale as a nectarine and hanging just above the treetops on a morning the weatherman on the local NPR affiliate had […]
Fiction
Fall 2011
In the Zone
People told her she’d get cancer in her bones, that the mice were growing into monsters the size of dogs, that if she planted a tomato or a cucumber in […]
Fiction
Summer 2007
Hands On
She liked his hands. His eyes. The way he looked at her as if he could see beneath the skin, as if he were modeling her from clay, his fingers […]
May/June 2019
Bicycle Day
Was it poison? Was it out of bounds? An unacceptable risk? She couldn’t have said, but she was in a state all day, though she kept telling herself she was […]
T. C. Boyle
T. C. Boyle is the author of twenty-two books of fiction, including, most recently, After the Plague (2001), Drop City (2003), The Inner Circle (2004), Tooth and Claw (2005), The […]