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It’s an immense privilege to consider work as anything beyond basic survival. A life dedicated to creating art of any kind is, for most of us, precarious and unsustainable. A modern-day marriage of two artists is as financially sturdy as sand. I knew intellectually that I wanted to be a mother more than I needed to be a writer. I just hadn’t

Jennifer Romolini • Ambition Monster: A Memoir

After fathers return from leave, many would love to stay just as involved in their children’s lives. Introducing more flexible work arrangements would allow employees, including men, to fulfill more of their family duties (for instance, arranging meetings around taking their children to school or providing time to attend doctor’s appointments).

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Wahi Diome-Deer • A fresh look at paternity leave: Why the benefits extend beyond the personal

In the spring, before I began teaching and lost the capacity to read anything more robust than a play (no offense to plays), I read Isabel Waidner’s second novel, Corey Fah Does Social Mobility , whose eponymous protagonist has just won a prestigious literary prize for the Fictionalization of Social Evils. And yet the trophy itself eludes him: neon... See more

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Free Food for Millionaires

Min Jin Lee

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ONE DAY, we promised ourselves, we would leave them.

Julie Otsuka • The Buddha in the Attic

name. When my mother was in her first years of immigrancy, the neighbors felt it incumbent upon themselves to warn her that she was loading me down with undesirable baggage.

Isaac Asimov • I, Asimov: A Memoir

She loves feeling that every headway man tries to make

Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel

The Kiribati Test

Stacey Cochran