In 1966, at an event protesting the Vietnam War, Anne Sexton read, in a quiet voice, “Little Girl, My Stringbean, My Lovely Woman,” a meditation on her daughter’s eleven-year-old body. As Adrienne Rich recalled it, Sexton’s poem stood out from the men’s “diatribes against McNamara, their napalm poems, their ego-poetry.” By evoking, indirectly, war’s victims, the poem reframed the question of what makes art political.
The writers who shaped my sense of my country were mostly born in America some thirty to sixty years before me, around the time that millions of the impoverished were leaving the Old World for the New and the tenement slums of our cities were filling up with, among others, Yiddish-speaking immigrants from Russia and Eastern Europe. These writers knew little about the families of youngsters like myself, a rather typical American grandchild of four of those poor nineteenth-century Jewish immigrants... Читать дальше...
The used condoms stopped bothering Marie after a while. At least the people were being safe during their motel sex. She was Catholic and didn’t believe in abortion. But she was more flexibly Catholic than strictly Catholic, so she did believe in birth control—pills, devices, procedures. That’s good science, she thought. And God created everything, including science. One of God’s other names is Big Bang. Sometimes, when she prayed, she said “Dear Big Bang,” and she was half certain that God enjoyed the inside joke. Читать дальше...
What Makes a Parent?
I read with great interest Ian Parker’s article on the contentious custody battle between a separated gay couple, a case that has the potential to change the ways in which the courts define parenthood and family (“Are You My Mother?,” May 22nd). For gay parents, parenthood necessarily requires an immense amount of planning. There is no accidental pregnancy. In my own experience, motherhood did not begin the moment my daughter was born. It didn’t even begin nine months earlier, at her conception. Читать дальше...
of fog, each eying a rib or a thighbone. They are arranging their plans like worms preparing to rise through the soil. They are ready to die with their kind, dry and stiff above the wet earth.
The actor Danny McBride looked around the Jekyll & Hyde Club, in the West Village, and said, “This is where the New York bankers do all the big deals, huh?” It was shortly after noon, and the putatively scary horror-themed restaurant—skeletons in top hats, chattering mummies—was empty. “I worked in places like this in Los Angeles,” the actor continued, “and I recognize that disgusting stale-beer stink.”
One of the women greeted me. I love you, she said. She didn’t Know me, but I believed her,And a terrible new ache Rolled over in my chest, Like in a room where the drapes Have been swept back. I love you, I love you, as she continued Down the hall past other strangers,Each feeling pierced suddenly By pillars of heavy light.I love you, throughoutThe performance, in every Handclap, every stomp.I love you in the rusted ironChains someone was madeTo drag until love let them beUnclasped and left emptyIn the center of the ring. Читать дальше...
Michael Barrett and Jenna Mulligan, emergency paramedics in Berkeley County, West Virginia, recently got a call that sent them to the youth softball field in a tiny town called Hedgesville. It was the first practice of the season for the girls’ Little League team, and dusk was descending. Barrett and Mulligan drove past a clubhouse with a blue-and-yellow sign that read “Home of the Lady Eagles,” and stopped near a scrubby set of bleachers, where parents had gathered to watch their daughters bat and field. Читать дальше...
John F. Kennedy’s 100th birthday comes at a moment when an inexperienced and incompetent commander-in-chief
Dr. Jill Oliver always focused her practice on the prevention and treatment of obesity-related conditions, so it was fitting that she and husband Michael Worley opened a gym.
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President Donald Trump’s budget demonstrates the costs of accepting lies as a normal currency in politics, broken promises as a customary way of doing business, false claims of being “populist” as the equivalent of the real thing, and sloppiness as what we should expect from government. ...
The quiz below, from the Ashbrook Center at Ashland University in Ohio, provides an opportunity for you to test your knowledge of Memorial Day. ...
Memorial Day is a national holiday that honors the men and women of the armed forces who ...
When the first of her three children neared age 8, and school events and sports increasingly demanded the family’s time, Tracy Krechevsky, 52, a teacher in Wellesley, Massachusetts, decided they needed a plan to ...
Every 9 seconds, a woman in America is beaten or assaulted. And Nevada consistently ranks high in deaths related to domestic violence ...
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Research has shown a direct correlation between vehicle speed and the likelihood of pedestrian survival during a collision. “Speed kills,” said Metro Police Officer Dell Griffith.
The president and founder of Five Star Economy discusses mistakes made by small-business owners in marketing and advertising, talks about the need for improved health care in Southern Nevada, and shares three pieces of advice he’s received.
Echoes of the 2016 presidential campaign can be heard in a a Las Vegas City Council race ...
Nevada lawmakers are counting down the final eight days of the biennial session with a key budget issue still unresolved...
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If you try to treat those in Generation Z — born in the mid- to late-’90s, mostly to Generation X parents — like you treated millennials — born in the early ’80s to mid-’90s, mostly to baby boomer parents — it will backfire on you. This generation is unique.
These are hard days of coarse language — of tweets and catcalls that appeal to the worst in us, not the best. Maybe that’s why a big, sweeping, old-fashioned speech delivered in New Orleans recently made such an impression on me. ...
