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New Books

I’m a father now. Please, hold your applause. As I write this, my son is fifteen days old, and I’m staring into the soft hurricane whorl of his hair, thinking…

A Perfect Woman

by Dorothy Dunbar Bromley,

It would be a bold writer who would attempt to have the last word on the much-debated maternal instinct. But since so many men have had their say on the…

Motherhood

by Sarah Manguso,

In the beginning, waiting for the baby to feed or stop feeding or burp or pass wind or yellow liquid shit, I postponed showers, phone calls, bowel movements. With the…