It is possible that my father thought himself into this hell. It is not possible for him to think himself back out.

When I watched ‘Dawson’s Creek’ in the nineties, I was outraged. We—that is, us teens—were not only misunderstood but misrepresented! That wasn’t us at all!

The eighteen stories in New York 1 Tel Aviv 0, Shelly Oria’s debut collection, are beguiling, bizarre, and wise. (One of them, “My Wife, in Converse,” appeared in The Paris Review earlier this year.) Her sentences, with their clear-eyed, authoritativ…