Everyone knows that a raindrop is shaped like a teardrop, right? Well, not so fast. While a teardrop is used to depict a raindrop in most instances, an actual raindrop is round when small. Raindrops ...

This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. On a muggy July afternoon in Iowa City, I went grocery shopping with the ...

“I wanted to put it all behind me,” the narrator of Small Rain freely concedes. “I wanted to be on the other side again of that gulf that separates the sick from the well—or what seems like a gulf, I ...