4+ hour, 52+ min ago  (141+ words) For your consideration, I present motherhood as a form of time travel. Pre, mid, post (of any variation). Beginning, middle, end (of any variation). Past, present, future (of any variation)these have become for me abstracts. This could be the…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (864+ words) Earlier this month, The Cut launched a new vertical, "Oh Baby," with an eye toward aggravating one demographic: the ambivalent prospective parent. On the other hand, evidence that Millennials are putting a new spin on that discourse continues to mount....

1+ mon, 11+ hour ago  (251+ words) Esm" Shapiro, Ruthie Tundra, March 17 Recommended for ages 3-7 Anne Wynter, While We're Here Illustrated by Micha Archer Clarion, March 24 Recommended for ages 4-8 Laurel Snyder, Shrinking Violet Illustrated by LeUyen Pham Chronicle, March 31 Recommended for ages 5-8 Victoria Tentler-Krylov, Our Cities Depend…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago  (62+ words) Tayari Jones on Moving Back Home'Literary Hub This isThresholds, a series of conversations with writers about experiences that completely turned them upside down, disoriented them in their lives, changed them, and changed how and why they wanted to write. Hosted…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (487+ words) I'm thinking about the mother in Tillie Olsen's "I Stand Here Ironing." The iron goes back and forth, back and forth, and so do her thoughts, tallying up all the ways she was and was not enough as a mother....

2+ mon, 6+ day ago  (658+ words) This week marks the 40th birthday of the Baby-Sitters Club, that ragtag team of business-minded eighth graders, who first appeared on our doorsteps in Ann M. Martin's Kristy's Great Idea (1986). Publisher Scholastic is launching three new books to celebrate. An anthology "spin-off…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (833+ words) A storm front's leading edge, Dad says, that's where you need to watch close. At the place where blue sky meets the scary Mordor black, the clouds twist around in a way that looks painful, and sometimes a funnel drops,…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (75+ words) Here are five books that I would have gratefully devoured as a new mother (and did gratefully devour as a not-quite-as-new one). Little Labors by Rivka Galchen Good Talk by Mira Jacob Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs by Beth Ann Fennelly Linea…...