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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

The Mother of All Questions

by Rebecca Solnit,

I gave a talk on Virginia Woolf a few years ago. During the question-and-answer period that followed it, the subject that seemed to most interest a number of people was…

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…

The Tyranny of Breast-Feeding

by Elisabeth Badinter,

New mothers vs. La Leche League

My Milk

by Anne Enright,

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New Books

The Case Against Children

The Egg

Baby on Board

Good Mother

Good Mother

Never Done

The Mother of All Questions

Motherhood

The Tyranny of Breast-Feeding

My Milk

May 2001

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