Charles IV and His Family, by Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, 1800. Prado Museum, Madrid.

Charles IV and His Family, by Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, 1800. Prado Museum, Madrid. 

Family

Volume V, Number 1 | winter 2012

Purchase

VIEW:

Filter

Hostages to Fortune

Lewis H. Lapham

The Stories We Live With

Philip Connors

A Harmony in Living

Garret Keizer

Working Arrangement

Justin Smith-Ruiu

The Meaning of Home

J.M. Tyree

The Oakling and the Oak

Anne Fadiman

Map

Family Planning

Miscellany

A little nepotism never hurts.

How the other half of the James family lived.

A family of hooligans.

Greek philosophers on family matters.

Bones from my father.

So much for the wayward son.

The last branch of the family tree.

A step towards ending child marriage.

Charlotte Brontë’s family “gone like dreams.”

The maddening Mitford girls.

T.H. Huxley is not ashamed of the origin of his species.

An ex-wife reaches out to her successor.

“Save me, save me, I am my mother’s only son.”

Sei Shōnagon’s familial pet peeves.

A presidential inquiry: “Have you been eating candy—yes, no, or maybe?”

Hard names to live up to.

God’s family planning.

Abraham Lincoln consoles a grieving mother.

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s family stories.

Voices In Time

When in Gaul

c. 51 BC | Rome

Man of the House

1804 | Paris

Genetics

1917 | Dorchester

Family Politics

1840 | Paris

Paternity Test

c. 170 | Athens

An Alternative Reality

1884 | London

Autopsy Report

1858 | London

Dawn of Mourning

1899 | Atlanta

Parental Love

1759 | Glasgow

Home Rule

1733 | Japan

Ignorance Is Bliss

1393 | France

Henry James Settles an Argument

c. 1835 | New York City

Not Your Average Family

c. 40 | Rome

Preemptive Strike

c. 700 BC | Boeotia

The Eliot Way

1920 | Houghton

Advice to the Once and Future Queen

1770 | Vienna

Parent Trap

c. 1790 | Hungjiang

Doting Uncle

c. 160 BC | Rome

Why Can’t You Be More Like Your Brother?

c. 1800 BC | Mari

I Love You, but I Must Be Frank

1967 | San Quentin, CA

That Is the Question

c. 1837 | London

Reparations

1521 | Florence

Battle Scars

1129 | Syria

Good Breeding

c. 378 BC | Athens

Nathaniel Hawthorne Digs Up His Roots

1850 | Salem

Brotherly Love

c. 1920 | Missoula, MT

Setting the Record Straight

1899 | Vienna

Just Disappointed

c. 425 | China

Father Knows Best

1978 | Jonestown

Wait for It

8 | Rome

Parting Words

1858 | Savannah

Enabling a Divorce

c. 1938 | New York City

Last Wish

2002 | Los Angeles

Disinheritance

1623 | England

Root and Branch

c. 1185 | Egypt

Hostage Situation

1625 | London

Second Thoughts

1916 | Chicago

State Intervention

1924 | Australia

Why Not Be Jubilant?

1928 | Arizona

Mother’s Grief

431 BC | Corinth

Meeting the Birds and the Bees

c. 1912 | Surrey

Between Sisters

1811 | Norland Park

Charts and Graphs

It Runs in the Family

Named by the Stars

In the Beginning Was the Family

Family Values

Last Requests

Glorious Bastards

Father of the Year

The Family Business

Portraits of the Times

Contributors

Conversations

Pliny the Elder & Carlos Drummond de Andrade

Anne Bradstreet & Franz Kafka

Lorenzo de’ Medici & William Shakespeare

Gain access to all content with a subscription.

Purchase