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2012 Winter
Family
Introductory
Voices in Time
Parents and Children
- Tough Love: 2011 / New Haven
- Mother’s Grief: 431 BC / Corinth
- Nursery Rhyme: 1971 / Hull
- Henry James Settles an Argument: c. 1835 / New York City
- Why Not Be Jubilant?: 1928 / Arizona
- Reparations: 1521 / Florence
- Life Lessons: 1978 / Antigua
- J.R. Ackerley Meets the Birds and the Bees: c. 1912 / Surrey
- Respect Your Elders: c. 500 BC / China
- Dawn of Mourning: 1899 / Atlanta
- Last Wish: 2002 / Los Angeles
- Just Disappointed: c. 425 / China
- Disinheritance: 1623 / England
- The Joys of Motherhood: c. 1877 / Moscow
- Last Look: c. 1944 / Auschwitz
- Either Mother or Child: 1843 / Copenhagen
- Paternity Test: c. 170 / Athens
- Tocqueville Analyzes the Politics of the Family: 1840 / Paris
- Parental Love: 1759 / Glasgow
- Preemptive Strike: c. 700 BC / Boeotia
- Sigmund Freud Sets the Record Straight: 1899 / Vienna
- Late-Term Abortion: c. 523 / Constantinople
- Orphan Laws: c. 620 / Arabia
- State Intervention: 1924 / Australia
- I Love You, but I Must Be Frank: 1967 / San Quentin, CA
- Women's Liberation: c. 1833 / Paris
- Philip Roth Wonders Why: c. 1940 / Newark
- Man of the House: 1804 / Paris
- Words of Warning: 1960 / New York City
Spouses and Siblings
- Dan Savage Listens to a Dissenting Opinion: 2005 / Washington
- To Avoid Any Taint of Dishonor: c. 1350 / Florence
- That Is the Question: c. 1837 / London
- Brotherly Love: c. 1920 / Missoula, MT
- Advice to the Once and Future Queen: 1770 / Vienna
- Not Your Average Family: c. 40 / Rome
- James Baldwin at a Birthday Breakfast: c. 1935 / New York City
- Why Can’t You Be More Like Your Brother?: c. 1800 BC / Mari
- Parent Trap: c. 1790 / Hungjiang
- Second Thoughts: 1916 / Chicago
- Hostage Situation: 1625 / London
- Go Forth and Multiply: c. 10 / Rome
- Parting Words: 1858 / Savannah
- Family Planning: 1976 / Bejing
- Theodore Dreiser Observes a Family Act: c. 1904 / Kansas City
- Between Sisters: 1811 / Norland Park
- Wait for It: 8 / Rome
- The Eliot Way: 1920 / Houghton
- Brother Against Brother: c. 1936 / Iran
- An Alternative Reality: 1844 / London
- The Unbearable Annoyances of Marriage: c. 1118 / Paris
- Arranging a Marriage: 1936 / Osaka
- Ignorance Is Bliss: 1393 / France
- Autopsy Report: 1858 / London
- Mary McCarthy Enables a Divorce: c. 1938 / New York City
- Home Rule: 1733 / Japan
- Family-Minded People: c. 1930 / Chicago
Extended Family
- Daniel Woodrell Introduces Uncle Teardrop: 2006 / Missouri
- Teffi's European Vacation: 1938 / France
- Inheritance: c. 175 / Dalmatia
- Genetics: 1917 / Dorchester
- Weak Limbs: c. 120 / Rome
- Nathaniel Hawthorne Digs Up His Roots: 1850 / Salem
- Father Knows Best: 1978 / Jonestown
- Good Breeding: c. 378 BC: Athens
- Down Home in Louisana: 1933 / Burden's Landing
- Root and Branch: c. 1185 / Egypt
- Spinster Aunt: c. 1925 / London
- Unedifying Cousins: c. 1525 / Ávila
- Doting Uncle: c. 160 BC / Rome
- Eudora Welty Remembers Daddy's Office: 1956 / Jackson
- It Takes a Village: c. 1930 / United States
- All in the Family: c. 1500 / Perugia
- When in Gaul: c. 51 BC / Rome
- Under the Trap of His Rap: 1969 / Spahn Ranch
- Battle Scars: 1129 / Syria
- James Agee's Childhood: 1915 / Knoxville
- Family Justice: 1945 / Long Beach, NY
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Essays
- The Oakling and the Oak: by Anne Fadiman
- Working Arrangement: by Justin E. H. Smith
- Stories to Live With: by Philip Connors
- A Harmony in Living: by Garret Keizer
Conversations
- Anne Bradstreet & Franz Kafka: Thanks a Lot, Dad
- Lorenzo de’ Medici & William Shakespeare: Fatherly Advice
- Pliny the Elder & Carlos Drummond de Andrade: Family Portraits
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