Sigrid Nunez has published six novels, including A Feather on the Breath of God, The Last of Her Kind, and most recently Salvation City. She is also the author of Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag. Among the journals to which she has contributed are The New York Times, Harper’s, The Threepenny Review, McSweeney’s, The Believer, Tin House, and O, The Oprah Magazine. Her honors and awards include four Pushcart Prizes, a Whiting Writers’ Award, a Berlin Prize Fellowship, and two awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters: the Rosenthal Foundation Award and the Rome Fellowship in Literature.
Sigrid Nunez
Articles by Sigrid Nunez
Friday October 9
Rapture Children
The first time Cole ever heard of rapture children was at the orphanage, where there were three: a boy and two girls. Rapture children had been around before, but since the pandemic there were lots more of them. Rapture children were children who’d been sent by God to be lights in the coming dark. They