Tag: family

“Janet Planet”: Melt the Icebergs

There’s some quietly ferocious, fiercely expressive dialogue in the playwright Annie Baker’s…

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Gramercy Park: Cast Out of the Garden

When I turned twelve, my dad decided that it was time for…

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How Liberals Talk About Children

When Imre Kertész won the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 2002, I…

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The Delicate Art of Turning Your Parents Into Content

In 1974, Martin Scorsese was a year removed from his breakthrough film—the…

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