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Parenting

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "Having a Catch With Dad Is Much Harder Than Field of Dreams Makes It Out To Be"

Baseball and complicated father/son relationships.

Patrick Walczy Hobart Apr 2018 Permalink

Best Article

Fatal Distraction

Forgetting a child in the backseat of a car is a horrifying mistake. But is it a crime?

Gene Weingarten Washington Post Mar 2009 35min Permalink

Movies & TV

Jimmy Kimmel Doesn't Want to Cry

A late night host finds a new voice.

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Paterniti on the Longform Podcast

Michael Paterniti GQ Jan 2018 20min Permalink

Arts

The Killer-Nanny Novel That Conquered France

Leïla Slimani’s best-seller explores the dark relationship of a mother and her babysitter.

Lauren Collins New Yorker Dec 2017 30min Permalink

Health

I Never Got the Chance to Protect My Child

“To fight for my son, I have to argue that he should never have been born.”

Jen Gann New York Nov 2017 20min Permalink

Best Article Travel

You Blow My Mind. Hey, Mickey!

A journey to Disney World with kids and weed.

John Jeremiah Sullivan New York Times Magazine Jun 2011 25min Permalink

Fiction

Fiction: "The End of Love"

New love, lost love, and origins.

Ilene Raymond Rush Poydras Review Oct 2017 10min Permalink

Fiction

Fiction: "The Story of Your Fall"

A story of parenting, flying, and skylands.

Ryan Call The Collagist Oct 2017 10min Permalink

Health

Jeni Stepanek’s Last Heartsong

A mom looks back on the “brief but wondrous experience” of raising her son Mattie, a little boy poet with a devastating rare disease who earned a following around the world.

Justin Heckert Washingtonian Jul 2017 25min Permalink

Best Article

When Should a Child Be Taken from His Parents?

In family court, judges must decide whether the risks at home outweigh the risks of separating a family.

Larissa MacFarquhar New Yorker Jul 2017 45min Permalink

Crime

The Accusation

Ray Spencer went to jail for 20 years for molesting his kids. Then they started to question their memories.

Maurice Chammah The Marshall Project, Esquire May 2017 25min Permalink

What Makes a Parent?

A brutal custody battle raises questions about who has a right to rear a child and what the legal meaning of a family should be.

Ian Parker New Yorker May 2017 45min Permalink

My Father Spent 30 Years In Prison. Now He's Out.

“How do you catch someone up on your entire life?”

Ashley C. Ford Refinery29 Apr 2017 10min Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "Wade Boggs"

A father and son bond over baseball and deceptions.

Jeremy Rice Hobart Apr 2017 Permalink

Arts

In the Shadow of a Fairy Tale

On becoming a stepmom.

Leslie Jamison New York Times Magazine Apr 2017 25min Permalink

Best Article Arts

My Son, the Prince of Fashion

“I took my son to Paris fashion week, and all I got was a profound understanding of who he is, what he wants to do with his life, and how it feels to watch a grown man stride down a runway wearing shaggy yellow Muppet pants.”

Michael Chabon GQ Sep 2016 20min Permalink

And Everyone Saw It.

The 7th grader’s sext was meant to impress him. It nearly destroyed her.

Jessica Contrera Washington Post Sep 2016 15min Permalink

My Brother’s Pregnancy and the Making of a New American Family

“My brother Evan was born female. He came out as transgender 16 years ago but never stopped wanting to have a baby. This spring he gave birth to his first child.”

Jessi Hempel Time Sep 2016 20min Permalink

Mother, Writer, Monster, Maid

On being a mom, a wife, and a writer.

Rufi Thorpe Vela Jul 2016 20min Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "The Stage from Behind"

Secular crises of two workers at a religious camp.

Chelsea Hogue The Collagist Jun 2016 25min Permalink

World

Mother for Hire

Immigrant nannies leave their own children behind to care for others’.

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Rachel Aviv on the Longform Podcast

Rachel Aviv New Yorker Apr 2016 30min Permalink

Science

A Journey to the Medical Netherworld

A mother’s quest to find a diagnosis for her daughter’s mysterious condition.

Alison Motluk Hazlitt Mar 2016 35min Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "Elephant Man"

A young girl uses unusual coping mechanisms after her father's death.

Erica X Eisen Atticus Review Mar 2016 Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "Mother's Day"

Mother's Day triggers a wealth of memories and characters, past and present.

George Saunders New Yorker Feb 2016 30min Permalink

Crime

Who Knows Best

Should having an intellectual disability disqualify a mother from raising her child?

Lisa Miller New York Jan 2016 30min Permalink

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