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Child sexual abuse

Lost Boy

by Margo Jefferson,

From the introduction to a forthcoming edition of her book On Michael Jackson, which was first published by Pantheon in 2006. In the first year of the twenty-first century my…

Bad Faith Arguments

From explanations given by priests as to why sexual abuse was acceptable, as described in Pennsylvania’s “Fortieth Statewide Investigating Grand Jury Report.” The report, which was released in August, examines…

Slender Mercies

by Rick Moody,

The gospel according to Extreme Weight Loss

Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God

by Scott Horton,

Alex Gibney on his documentary investigating the Roman Catholic Church's handling of child sex-abuse cases

Sliver of Sky

by Barry Lopez,

Confronting the trauma of sexual abuse

Seventy brides for seven brothers

by Harper’s Staff,

Open door policy

by Harper’s Staff,

Making the incest scene

by Katie Roiphe,

In novel after novel, writers grope for dark secrets

From the mouths of babes to a jail cell

by Dorothy Rabinowitz,

Child abuse and the abuse of justice

I know why the caged bird sings

by Maya Angelou,

Debug