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Parent and child

In Praise of Boredom

The world into which I was born no longer exists, of course. I’ve been around for almost half a century, so it was inevitable. My parents — one French, raised…

Out of the Mouths of Babes

by a School-Teacher

Diss Placed

by Andrew M. Guest,

From insults exchanged by children living in refugee camps near Luanda, Angola, between 2002 and 2003. “ ‘You Traded Your Mother for an Unripe Mango’: Playing with Insults in an…

L’amour filial

by Charlotte Brontë,Translated by Sue Lonoff de Cuevas,

By Charlotte Brontë, from an essay written while she was a twenty-six-year-old student at the Pensionnat Heger in Brussels. The essay, dated August 5, 1842, was discovered last year in…

Root and Branch

by Gary Greenberg,

Andrew Solomon’s exploration of difference

Spare the Rod

From an October 14 ruling of the Supreme Court of British Columbia, in Regina v. D.J.W. The accused, whose identity was concealed to protect his son, was found guilty of…