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I first encountered Robert Crumb at my local Blockbuster, in the mid-Nineties, when Crumb became available for rental. I wasn’t more than ten at the time, so I didn’t understand…

Hope Springs Paternal

by Julie Buntin,

From “I Was So Hopeful for You,” collected in the anthology What My Father and I Don’t Talk About, which will be published in May by Simon & Schuster. Before…

New Books

by Dan Piepenbring,

My Only Synesthesia

by Brian Blanchfield,

From a manuscript in progress. I used to think my grandmother peed pink. I would think it sitting on the toilet, hers, I was sure she had visited last. When…

New Books

by Dan Piepenbring,

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…

The Case Against Children

by Elizabeth Barber,

Among the antinatalists

The Egg

by Sanaë Lemoine,

Baby on Board

by Suzanne Buffam,

Published in Issue 15 of Fonograf Editions. The baby’s blameless, I can’t argue with that. She hasn’t told a single lie in her life, let alone cheated, however inadvertently, on…

Good Mother

by Sierra Crane Murdoch,

Custody and care in the shadow of colonization

Good Mother

by Jean Frémon,

From Now, Now, Louison, a novel that will be published by Les Fugitives in the UK in September and by New Directions next March. Frémon is the president of Galerie…

Never Done

by Christine Smallwood,

The impossible work of motherhood

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New Books

Hope Springs Paternal

New Books

My Only Synesthesia

New Books

The Case Against Children

The Egg

Baby on Board

Good Mother

Good Mother

Never Done

April 2018

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