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Ithaca

by Will Self,

Rewriting my mother's diaries

Family Portrait

by John Berger,

From letters exchanged by John Berger and his son Yves, collected in Over to You, which will be published this month by Pantheon Books. Yves, I send two “postcards.” One…

The Hard Hill

by Claire Messud,

From This Strange Eventful History, which will be published this month by W. W. Norton. He could hear his wife, Barbara, now in the other room, getting ready for his father’s funeral.…

The Spies Next Door

by John Beck,

China’s covert campaign to intimidate Uighur exiles

When the Raids Came

by Andrew Quilty,

The war’s toll on one Afghan family

The Sound of Vibrance

Translated by Robert Chapeskie,

From posts on DQN Today, a Japanese website that allows users to drop pins on neighborhood maps and note noise or other disturbances. Translated from the Japanese. Several families are…

The Silent Type

by Sam Sussman,

On (possibly) being Bob Dylan’s son

What it Means to Be Alive

by Justin Taylor,

Decoding a father’s farewell

Family Unit

by Julie Cockburn,

Islands

by Hilton Als,

By Hilton Als, written on the occasion of Peter Doig’s exhibition at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts this spring and published in Transition 113. Als’s “I Am Your Conscious,…

L’amour filial

by Charlotte Brontë,Translated by Sue Lonoff de Cuevas,

By Charlotte Brontë, from an essay written while she was a twenty-six-year-old student at the Pensionnat Heger in Brussels. The essay, dated August 5, 1842, was discovered last year in…