For the New York Times’s Bookends column, Thomas Mallon and Leslie Jamison muse on the books that best capture the intricate and fraught relationships between siblings:

That’s what I felt Faulkner intuited about siblings: that there were all sorts of gaps and harms and distances that might befall them, that they might inflict on each other, but that they loved each other anyway. Even when they were cruel to each other, or opaque to each other, or imagined each other rather than really hearing each other, they still felt bound to each other — connected beyond all arguments to the contrary.