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Love Hurts

From a fictional dialogue with his father in his novel Change, which will be published this month by Harvill Secker. Translated from the French by John Lambert. Before meeting Elena…

Time Is a Violent Stream

by Tom Bissell,

On losing a father and finding Stoicism

Math Rock

by Richard Powers,

From “One, Two, Three . . . Infinity,” an essay in the anthology Ways of Hearing, which will be published this month by Princeton University Press. My father wanted his own orchestra.…

Name Stakes

by Thomas Chatterton Williams,

Since becoming a father, I have thought a lot about what exactly we’re doing when we name something or someone after someone else. Three years ago, my wife and I,…

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

Share the Pain

by Walter Kirn,

Our plan was to walk toward the National Mall and visit a few museums along the way, but then we saw the scooters. Two of them were standing on the…

Filial Poetry

by Allen Ginsberg, Louis Ginsberg, Stephen Braitman,

From an interview conducted by Stephen Braitman with Allen Ginsberg and his father, Louis Ginsberg, in 1974. The interview is included in First Thought, a collection of conversations with Allen…

The Lords of Lambeau

by Austin Smith,

On family, fate, and Packers football

The Lords of Lambeau

by Austin Smith,

On family, fate, and Packers football

The Old Man

by David Means,

A writer remembers his father

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Love Hurts

Time Is a Violent Stream

Math Rock

Name Stakes

The Silent Type

What it Means to Be Alive

Share the Pain

Filial Poetry

The Lords of Lambeau

The Lords of Lambeau

The Old Man

June 2016

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