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Preamble

Hostages to Fortune

By Lewis H. Lapham

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

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The Stories We Live With

By Philip Connors

Death turned his brother into a cipher, and it would take a return home to collect the pieces of a shattered life.

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The Oakling and the Oak

By Anne Fadiman

How the prodigal son of Samuel Taylor Coleridge faced his demons, and his father’s shadow.

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A Harmony in Living

By Garret Keizer

Happy families are indeed all alike in calling forth the best of their members’ humanity.

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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.

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Working Arrangement

By Justin E.H. Smith

Marriage as we know it today is a very recent invention—one that has very little in common with the unions of old.

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