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Small Animals by Kim Brooks explores daunting questions about modern parenting through the author's personal experience and research. How are we judged as "good" parents and our children as successful while considering issues of race, gender, and socioeconomic status? How are we moved by the status games and the parenting competitions we play while scrolling... Continue Reading →
“For centuries, dealers of opium, morphine, and heroin understood that an addicted person’s fear of running out - of becoming dopesick - portended one hell of a business model.” The mother’s search, the politicians’ platitudes, the fixer’s cooked numbers, the prosecutor’s insomnia, the drug company’s pitch, and the addict’s dopesick wails. Traveling up and down... Continue Reading →
I have taught at the same high school for the past eighteen years, and every year approximately 5 or 6 students enter the military after graduation. Many of those over one hundred young men and women have been sent to Afghanistan and Iraq to fight. I often think about what they go through on a day-to-day... Continue Reading →
‘You have to understand,’ a friend had told me once, only half-joking. ‘In India, there are no facts.’ George Black's On the Ganges is a sweeping travelogue that both reflects on the genre itself in Indian history as well as furthers the writing style with decisive insight into contemporary issues in the country. The author... Continue Reading →
‘… many of the richest men had been busted several times, and all of them knew they might well be broke again tomorrow.’ I spent many summer days in my youth playing 'miner' in the tailings of the Empire Mine in the Mineral King Valley. In current-day Sequoia National Park, the valley was the site... Continue Reading →
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