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Apr 1, 2026
Dawn and I learned that when you have a child with profound physical and intellectual disabilities, the end of public school — soon after age 21 — is a brusque ejection...
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Mar 25, 2026
Fifteen years after Amy Chua popularized the Tiger Mom, that stereotype still claws at our cultural imagination.
Chua’s memoir, which unleashed a flood of contentious op-eds,...
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Mar 18, 2026
Great domestic novelists, like Anne Tyler and Elizabeth Strout, routinely create such witty and poignant worlds that readers risk growing accustomed to their genius. It’s an...
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Mar 11, 2026
In the 20th century, when Freudian theory clung on as tightly as Hamlet to his mother, everybody had a complex. We struggled with inferiority complexes, endured bosses with...
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Mar 9, 2026
In the first TV ad for Joe Biden’s ill-fated reelection campaign, a somber narrator warned Americans that the values we hold most dear were “under attack by an extreme...
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Mar 4, 2026
In 2012, M.L. Stedman’s debut novel, The Light Between Oceans, bounded onto bestseller lists around the world like a globetrotting kangaroo. Her story of a couple on a...
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Feb 25, 2026
In one of his loveliest and most idealistic sonnets, Shakespeare writes,
Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds
Or bends with the...
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Feb 18, 2026
Mohammed Hanif’s incendiary comic novel, Rebel English Academy, makes strong demands on American readers — and rewards them. Among its many pleasures is the...
Apr 1, 2026Dawn and I learned that when you have a child with profound physical and intellectual disabilities, the end of public school — soon after age 21 — is a brusque ejection...
Mar 18, 2026Great domestic novelists, like Anne Tyler and Elizabeth Strout, routinely create such witty and poignant worlds that readers risk growing accustomed to their genius. It’s an...
Mar 11, 2026In the 20th century, when Freudian theory clung on as tightly as Hamlet to his mother, everybody had a complex. We struggled with inferiority complexes, endured bosses with...
Mar 4, 2026In 2012, M.L. Stedman’s debut novel, The Light Between Oceans, bounded onto bestseller lists around the world like a globetrotting kangaroo. Her story of a couple on a...