Table of Contents

2012 Winter

Family

Introductory

• Hostages to Fortune: by Lewis H. Lapham

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

Departments

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

Miscellany

• Ex-Wives, Evolution, Dead Sons: Findings from the Editors

Reconsiderations

• The Meaning of Home: by J. M. Tyree

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