Fathers Archives

Fathers

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.…

What it Means to Be Alive

by Justin Taylor,

Decoding a father’s farewell

The Old Man

by David Means,

A writer remembers his father

In My Father’s Study upon His Death

by Dylan Landis,

By Dylan Landis, the author of several books, including Rainey Royal, her first novel, published last month by Soho Press.

Artful Dodger

From a note sent in 1917 to the Appeal Tribunal in Middlesex, England, which reviewed requests for exemption from military service during World War I. The note is included in…