Family

Volume V, Number 1 | winter 2011

Preamble

Hostages to Fortune

By Lewis H. Lapham

Family values are no longer so simple to define. Which families, and what values?

Essay

The Meaning of Home

By J.M. Tyree

The Misfits, Arthur Miller’s drama about disconnected strangers escaping to the West, established a new kind of American family.

Map

Family Planning

Fertility, contraception, and adoption practices from around the world.

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Miscellany

Alfred D’Orsay Tennyson Dickens, Henry Fielding Dickens, Edward Bulwer-Lytton Dickens, Walter Landor Dickens, and Sydney Smith Haldimand Dickens were among the names of Charles Dickens’ sons. Among the brothers of Walter Whitman were George Washington Whitman, Andrew Jackson Whitman, and Thomas Jefferson Whitman.

Voices In Time

1899 | Atlanta

Dawn of Mourning

W.E.B. Du Bois on the passing of his firstborn son.More

Voices In Time

c. 1800 BC | Mari

Why Can’t You Be More Like Your Brother?

An Assyrian favorite son.More

Voices In Time

1858 | London

Autopsy Report

Charles Dickens on being unhappily married.More

Charts & Graphs

Last Requests

Selections from famous wills and testaments

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Italian Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect, and poet Michelangelo.

Contributors

American essayist and reporter Anne Fadiman.

Family! Thou art the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.

- August Strindberg, 1886