Essential Reading: Father’s Day
We're reading about dear old dad this month! Check out our latest favorites.[Read more...]
View ArticleNow Reading: June 2012
Our reading this month ranges from Maine to Istanbul to Sarajevo; check it out![Read more...]
View ArticleEssential Reading: Translation
Eighteenth century Japanese poet, Kobayashi Issa wrote, "What a strange thing! To be alive, under cherry blossoms." I felt the strangeness of things this month, too, when I put out a call for books in...
View ArticleNow Reading: July 2012
This June, when I packed our family's suitcase for a week at the beach, the question of which paperback to bring floated over me: an invitation to which I hadn't yet had time to respond. The beach...
View ArticleFather Tongue
We are in Bangkok at the end of a two-week visit to my father's country of birth. I have been here many times before, including one three-year-long stay during which I learned Thai, a language that...
View ArticleA Review of The Good Mother Myth
The Good Mother Myth (edited by Avital Norman Nathman, with a foreword by Christy Turlington Burns) landed in my inbox in early November, when the eerie tentacles of Halloween were still creeping into...
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