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continuing yesterday's "moms and non-fiction" theme
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Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls spent three years on the New York Times Best Seller list, so obviously a lot of moms owned it …
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I make no attempt to draw conclusions here, only parallels. What this might mean for your own theology is yours to discern. I am not myself a religious…
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All of us were playing a big game of tug-of-war but no one would admit it. It may have been a question of strategy for some of us, at least in the…
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I know everyone’s taken their turn at A Little Life over the years — perhaps even a little more than their turn, and if we want to preserve the fields…
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Why Does Ross Not Simply Eat? [Scene: Central Perk, Chandler, Joey, Phoebe and Monica are there.] Monica: There’s nothing to tell. Joey: There’s got to…
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There are a number of latently-transmasculine reasons to replay Ocarina of Time, but none so straightforward as the narcissistic, preening pleasure as…
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Oh, dear, I’m afraid I simply don’t know. Is it very important? He has a little desk upstairs somewhere, I’m sure, where he keeps all his letters in…
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Previously in this series: “Though he has been described as “the heir to Proust, via Nabokov,” Banville himself maintains that W.B. Yeats and Henry…
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“Though he has been described as “the heir to Proust, via Nabokov,” Banville himself maintains that W.B. Yeats and Henry James are the two real…
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It’s a story as famous as the three little pigs: one evening a man says he is going out for cigarettes, closes the door behind him and is never heard…
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Previously in Fun With Euphemization: “Josh Lyman and Josh-Lyman-aligned people.” Since one can’t always successfully mute or otherwise avoid every key…
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