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Family Portrait
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From letters exchanged by John Berger and his son Yves, collected in Over to You, which will be published this month by Pantheon Books. Yves, I send two “postcards.” One…

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New Books
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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…

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Ghost in the Machine

From a statement explaining the inclusion of a tape recorder in the Museum of Broken Relationships in Zagreb, Croatia. In 1968, exactly fifty years ago, my father passed away, leaving…

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Love Hurts
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From a fictional dialogue with his father in his novel Change, which will be published this month by Harvill Secker. Translated from the French by John Lambert. Before meeting Elena…

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The Spy
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On seeing without being seen

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Long-Distance Parenting

From “Guilt Trips,” a pamphlet of “positive parenting tips” created and distributed by MCI Telecommunications to parents who travel on business. More than 10,000 people have ordered the pamphlet since…

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Feeling something
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When a father dies

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Conventional wisdoms
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We attend a parents’ meeting
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A natural dilemma
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