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Fathers and sons

The Long Rescue

A man’s search for his kidnapped children

Revenge Tragedy

by Austin Reed,

From The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict, a memoir by Austin Reed, published this month by Random House. Likely completed in 1858, the manuscript was discovered at…

Cattle Calls

by Ted Conover,

The vanishing breed of the country vet

Life After Guantánamo

by Pardiss Kebriaei,

A father and son’s story

Our Common Trouble

by Scott Korb,

In search of justice and forgiveness in Florida

Robert Littell’s “What the Young Man Should Know” (1933)

by Harper’s Magazine,

Advice for parents about raising their sons

Martyrdoms of Light

by Ishmael Randall Weeks,

The Scientists

by Marco Roth,

From a memoir published in September by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Roth is an editor at n+1. Secrecy came easily, at first. It felt like the natural condition of adolescence,…

My old man

by Clancy Martin,

On the road, a life real and imagined

From Eden to Eton

by Pico Iyer,

One boy’s transatlantic education

Ryan went to Afghanistan

by Kent Russell,