Fathers

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. Read More

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…

My old man

By Clancy Martin,

On the road, a life real and imagined

Grammar questions

By Lydia Davis,

Before the Age of False Praise

By Joseph P. (Joseph Patrick) Kennedy, Harold Joseph Laski,

If there’s a God

By Gregory Orr,

September 1959

Art by Judie Bamber,

A death in the family

By Thomas Lynch,

Inscribed upon the body

By Natalie Kusz,

On nose, chest, and hands, a father's life

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