Family
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Making Men in the Blue Ridge Mountains
The gravel road wound through a valley, surrounded on all sides by mountain ridges covered in verdant…
A Mother’s Prayer
My wife is my godmother. On the day of my baptism, my wife stood by me as…
Playing the Venereal Game
A book subtitled The Venereal Game is not normally one to be recommended in a family magazine.…
No Living with the Killing
Midway through the brutal Western film The Proposition (2005), there is a crucial moment when the outlaw…
Following the Jewish Jesus
Twenty-four years ago this week, I was in Jerusalem to cover Pope John Paul II’s epic pilgrimage…
Two Who Didn’t Run
His neighbors in 1940s Oklahoma would have found it hard to imagine the boy they knew as…
Sex, Lies, and Suicide
Mollyby blake butlerarchway editions, 328 pages, $17.95 It seems heartless to discuss Blake Butler’s memoir Molly as a work…
Hedgehogs, Foxes, and Other Thinkers
Years ago, I spent a month with my family in Burundi. I had once worked there when…
Mamet’s Map and NetChoice v. Paxton
A curious event in Supreme Court history happened last month: An amicus brief was filed that consists…
Walking with John Cage
A new book by Geoff Nicholson has me thinking once again about walking. It’s called Walking on…
Destroying Marriage in Order to Save It
A recent article in the New Yorker paints a rosy picture of the many ways that polyamory…
The Pope, Same-Sex Blessings, and Protestants
The confusion surrounding the pope’s recent statement Fiducia Supplicans, a document that is ambiguous about whether Catholic…
The Pope and the Black Hole
In a by now familiar sequence of events, the Vatican released a document on Monday which caused…
Holding the Line
This article is part of our 2023 year-end campaign series, featuring reflections from prominent authors on why First…
