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Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids edited by meghan daum picador, 288 pages, $26 The Dadly Virtues: Adventures from the Worst Job...

The New Class Conflictby joel kotkintelos, 230 pages, $29.95 About five years after we graduated from college a friend called me from Philadelphia. She had spent some time bouncing...

A few weeks ago, I found myself speaking about interfaith marriage at a Reform synagogue in a wealthy suburb of New York. I’ve given many of these talks since the...

Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity by Andrew Solomon Scribner, 976 pages, $37.50 At the most superficial level, raising children is about getting to...

The Accordion Family: Boomerang Kids, Anxious Parents, and the Private Toll of Global Competition by Katherine S. Newman Beacon, 288 pages, $25.95 Teenagers are losing interest in cars. According...

Faith and Money: How Religion Contributes to Wealth and Poverty by Lisa A. Keister Cambridge, 254 pages, $27.99 In the age of Occupy Wall Street, remarking on American inequality...

Lost in Transition: The Dark Side of Emerging Adulthood by Christian Smith, with Kari Christoffersen, Hilary Davidson, and Patricia Snell Herzog Oxford, 296 pages, $27.95 A few years ago,...

The investiture of a university president—that is, the ceremony in which the authority and symbols of that office are first conferred—is a celebratory occasion, but it must also be...

The nation’s Roman Catholic bishops have recently approved procedures for certifying that theologians teaching Catholic theology at Catholic colleges do in fact teach Catholic theology. While the decision was...