Courtship Archives

Courtship

Loaner Hearts

Translated by Spencer Woodman,

From personals posted in January to online classified sites in China. Chinese New Year was celebrated on February 14. Translated from the Chinese by Spencer Woodman. I’m looking for a…

Barely legal

by Harper’s Staff,

A son in shadow

by Fred D’Aguiar,

Remembering, in fragments, a lost parent

Automatic aphrodisiacs

by Jason Johnson, Carl Todd, Philip Obermeyer, Carlo Peratoner,

A date with the family

by Anne Ryun, Jim Ryun,

Margaret Mead’s Big Night Out

by Monica M. Moore,

How to Correspond with a Boy

By an anonymous teenager, excerpted from the January 1963 issue of Seventeen magazine. Craftsmanship shown by female letter writers is infinitely superior to that of males, and for a good…