Mothers are responsible for salads. Dozens of salads in a motley crew of bowls dug from the back of the cabinet for the occasion…
Recipe for Salat Olivier by Alex Simand
Category: Issues
Circle Where it Hurts by Leslie Kendall Dye
I care for my mother, who was—is?—very beautiful, very brilliant, very talented. She was a champion ice-skater at Rockefeller Plaza in the 1940s…
The Psychologists by Marianna Pogosyan
My husband kisses my painted lips and hands me a bouquet of orange tulips that he has bought for another woman.
Before Lent by Jane Murray Bird
I killed the birds the day I left my husband. Three of them; no stones
And Then There Was Dad: A Supplement for the Baby Boomer Guidebooks by Marsh Rose
He’d had a few rocky years after Mom died but, prior to his death, he’d been leading the high life in Las Vegas, active and independent…
Craft: 4 New Ways to Tell Your Stories by Nicole Breit
I discovered what I call CNF’s “outlier forms” a few years ago. I was looking for innovative ways to approach old material…
REVIEW: The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture by Glen Weldon
Everybody knows Batman. We just don’t all know the same Batman. He’s weathered quite a few changes in the past 78 years.
REVIEW: The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World by 14th Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu and Douglas Abrams
The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World (Avery, September 2016), is His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s, gift to the world.
REVIEW: The Pater: My Father, My Judaism, My Childlessness by Elliot Jager
As the heart-wrenching experience of infertility gains more public attention, many of the voices belong to women. But Elliot Jager’s multi-layered memoir, The Pater takes a different tack.
Big Wigs by Colter Jackson
After they went home at night, my mother brought me with her to the factory to clean up after the Big Wigs, not to teach me how to clean, but to teach me how not to spend my life…
