Childhood
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Absurdity of Trying to Capture Childhood on a Phone November 07, 2024
When I learned that I was pregnant with my first child – a daughter – I did what most citizens of the modern world do. I snapped a picture of a positive pregnancy test, creating the first photographic record of the new, precious life I now knew was g...
Auden’s Island November 06, 2024
When, on January 19, 1939, W.H. Auden boarded at Southampton a ship bound for New York City, he could not have known that he would never live in England again. But some months earlier, he had told his friend Christopher Isherwood that he wanted to se...
The Smearing of Gay Republicans November 01, 2024
The issue of childhood transitions is a personal one for Clarkson Lawson, a 26-year-old gay content creator who’s voting for Donald Trump for president next week. I met him for coffee in downtown St. Petersburg, Florida, last month. He’s spoken out a...
Early Scenes August 27, 2024
My mother began taking me to the movies when I was a little boy of three or four. She worked at factory and other menial jobs during the day, and when she came home I was the only company she had. Afterward, I’d go through the characters in my head a...
RFK Jr. Footnotes August 27, 2024
In his timely assessment of RFK Jr’s shift to Trump, Roger Kimball explains:Kennedy noted that he and Trump were not in agreement on every issue. But, he said, they were at one about several important policies, including “ending the Forever Wars, end...
Lana Del Rey Embraces Classic French Style August 23, 2024
Last night, Lana Del Rey served as the opening-night headline act at the Rock en Seine music festival in Paris. The singer hit the stage and performed her hits such as “Doin’ Time,” “Summertime Sadness,” and “Ride,” marking her second time playing th...
Millennium Man August 21, 2024
The books you read in childhood can determine the course of your life. The same is true of films. My father insisted that Alain Delon be part of my upbringing, and his films remain among the greatest things that he ever imparted to me. One can get a ...
The Well-Trained Boy August 13, 2024
In BoyMom: Reimagining Boyhood in the Age of Impossible Masculinity, British author Ruth Whippman offers readers a window into her mothering journey. This is a beautifully written, often thought-provoking, and disarmingly vulnerable book that begins ...
Listening to Elizabeth Taylor August 02, 2024
The art of storytelling is the art of simplification—of giving smooth contours and sharp points to messily loose-ended incidents. That’s why, when artists tell their life stories, the plethora of factual details is secondary to the emotions, the idea...
