Recent cultural and policy shifts in Japan have made a previously hard-to-find species far more common: the stay-at-home dad.
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The Inward Empire
A new father with early-stage MS sets out to understand the interiors of his daughter’s mind, and his own.
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But a Novel Will Never Love You Like Your Children Do
Does each of your children represent a novel you’ll never write? Michael Chabon is okay with that.
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Five Early Lessons in Parenting
Steven Church discovers his own fragility and limitations in these five discussions with his son.
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Camping With Kids: A Non-Primer
A personal essay in which Reid Doughten recalls not realizing until too late that taking his toddlers camping while his wife worked the weekend shift was bad idea.
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Beverly Cleary on Fatherhood, via 'Ramona and Her Father'
At Avidly, Stephanie Lucianovic rereads the ‘Ramona’ books from Beverly Cleary and gains a new appreciation for Cleary’s writing, as well as a new perspective on the theme of parenting found within the books. Here’s Lucianovic on Ramona’s father: Running throughout the entire Ramona and Beezus oeuvre, and illustrated by Mr. Quimby’s ill-fated career, is […]
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Malrotation
“No one makes it through life unscathed, but you usually get a grace period at the start. My son would not be so lucky.”
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Our Longreads Member Pick: Someone Could Get Hurt (Chapter 1), by Drew Magary
For this week’s Member Pick, we’re thrilled to share the first chapter of Drew Magary’s new memoir on fatherhood, Someone Could Get Hurt (Gotham Books). Magary, who writes for Deadspin and GQ, has been featured on Longreads many times in the past, and he explained how his latest book came together: I was in the middle of writing a second novel that would […]