Reviews

Although I have no regrets — I love my children, my husband and my home — when I rehash the long series of seemingly insignificant decisions that resulted in very…

Terrorism did not begin with 9-11. Even before that horrifying day, people had blown themselves up in cafes and markets. But those were foreign tragedies, they happened in far-flung places,…

I’m the pale-skinned, fair-haired American mother of two children with Asian features. We live in a small farming community of multigenerational families in one of the most conservative corners of…

Buzz: A Year of Paying Attention tells the oldest story in the world, a story familiar to anyone who has read the Old Testament, Greek myths, or Shakespeare’s tragedies. It’s…

Like so many women and mothers I know, my life is exactly as I planned it and nothing like I expected. The last several years have been about letting go…

Liz Abrams-Morley writes both looking up (at her parents’ inevitable decline and death) and looking down (at her own children), always with an eye to what’s happening around her, especially…

Blood Strangers isn’t a glib coming-of-age story or a cathartic coming-out story, it’s an honest book made beautiful by Briccetti’s clear voice. In questioning her own decision to have children…

How refreshing it was to open Gravity Pulls You In, a new collection of essays and poems about parenting children on the autism spectrum. Gravity is the table at the…

Four recent books on the state of fatherhood prove that men reflect on their child-rearing skills and contemplate their actions far more than society might recognize, or credit them for.…

Experiencing a mother’s death is one of the biggest milestones in a woman’s life. Whether the relationship is close or distant, loving or corrosive, enmeshed or shallow does not matter.…

I write this review out of deep jealousy. For years I’ve known Amy Alley as a South Carolina artist. I also know her as a single mother and a successful…