He's sitting on the outside of the windshield when I get into the minivan. Just another housefly. A pest. I slam my door, a little harder than usual. He doesn't move. Hmmm. As Mom buckles herself into the driver's seat,...

Miss Eulalia Potts, librarian, was fond of dimming the lights four times - three short dims and then a long, like the opening bars of Beethoven's Fifth. Fate knocking at the door, whatever. She wished to forewarn the heavy readers with a touch of...

Academy Award-winning composer Howard Shore, Placido Domingo and director David Cronenberg are forming an unlikely trio to create an unlikely opera _ "The Fly."A co-production by the Theatre du Chatelet and Domingo's Los Angeles Opera, "The Fly" will premiere in Paris on July 1, 2008,...

This city lives in the shadow of a 1-inch fly that that slurps nectar and zooms around like a hummingbird.The Delhi Sands flower-loving fly is the only fly on the federal endangered species list. Recent counts have yielded no more than two dozen of the...

In the following essay, Michel-Michot declares that “The Fly” is a story about self-discovery and the resulting terror that forces a man to try to forget the awful truths he has learned about himself.

In the following essay, Hagopian rejects biographical interpretations of “The Fly” as limiting the story's universally compelling message of death and loss.

In the following essay, Bateson and Shahevitch discuss how Mansfield makes extraordinary use of literary realism to create a tale that ends in the reader's moral condemnation of the protagonist.